By Jesse Tarbert
Seattle Times staff reporter

Test your knowledge of the contributions African Americans have made to our community — or take this opportunity to learn something new.

1. Jackson Park Golf Course and West Seattle Women's Golf Club (both publicly funded courses) first accepted black members in what year?
a. 1948
b. 1958
c. 1968

2. In what year did Seattle Public Schools institute one of the nation's earliest volunteer integration plans?
a. 1963
b. 1964
c. 1968
d. 1973

3. Seattle's first black settler, Manuel Lopes, arrived during the 1850s. He was the city's first:
a. Blacksmith
b. Tailor
c. Barber

4. Groundbreaking for the 4.3-acre Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park (at 2200 Martin Luther King Jr. Way) was in 1984. In what year was the memorial completed?
a. 1985
b. 1991
c. 1998

5. In August 1944, black soldiers rioted at Fort Lawton in Magnolia, killing an Italian prisoner of war. The black soldiers were angry because they had been restricted to a small, segregated area of the base, while Italian and German POWs were taken on escorted tours to various scenic areas and bars.
a. True
b. False

6. In 1951, Seattle resident Shirley Lola Graham, daughter of a local pastor, married what prominent national black activist?
a. A. Philip Randolph
b. Paul Robeson
c. W.E.B. DuBois
d. Walter White

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	Thelma Dewitty, the first black teacher in Seattle Public Schools, reads to her second-grade students at Cooper Elementary in West Seattle.

7. In what year did Thelma Dewitty become the first black teacher hired by Seattle Public Schools?
a. 1947
b. 1956
c. 1963

8. The Douglass-Truth Library (at 23rd and Yesler), named for abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, houses one of the largest collections of African and African-American material in the Northwest. When was the library's name changed from the Henry Yesler Library?
a. 1968
b. 1975
c. 1982

9. What was the name of the newspaper run by black publisher Horace Cayton from 1894 to 1917?
a. The Seattle Afro-American
b. The Seattle Freedom Press
c. The Seattle Republican

10. Who was the first black person elected to the state Legislature?
a. Charles Stokes
b. The Rev. Samuel McKinney
c. Horace Cayton Jr.

11. Police searched the headquarters of the Seattle Black Panther Party July 29, 1968, arresting two party leaders and sparking a week of unrest in the Central Area that disrupted Seafair festivities. What did police find?
a. A cache of guns and hand-grenades
b. Detailed plans to bomb the federal courthouse
c. An allegedly stolen typewriter

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	In January 1959, Claude Harris became the first African American to join the Seattle Fire Department.

12. Claude Harris was the first African American to join the Seattle Fire Department. What rank did he eventually achieve?
a. Captain
b. Assistant chief
c. Chief

13. In what year did Boeing hire its first African-American employee, stenographer Florise Spearman?
a. 1932
b. 1942
c. 1952

14. What was Seattle's predominately black semi-pro football team in the 1930s?
a. The Alhambra Sultans
b. The Black and Tan Bombers
c. The Ubangi Blackhawks

15. During World War II, Seattle's black population jumped from about 3,000 to:
a. 5,000
b. 10,000
c. 15,000

16. Which nightclub did Russell "Noodles" Smith own?
a. The Golden West Club
b. The New Harlem Club
c. The Black and Tan Club
d. The Ubangi Club
e. All of the above

17. In 1948, Ray Charles moved to Seattle. He would stay for more than two years, performing in the nightclub district centered at 12th and Jackson, and influencing local musicians such as Quincy Jones.
a. True
b. False

18. After visiting Seattle, jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton wrote a song about his experiences here called "Seattle Hunch."
a. True
b. False

19. While a student at Cornish College of the Arts during the 1930s, dancer Syvilla Fort inspired avant-garde composer John Cage's renowned "prepared piano" technique.
a. True
b. False

20. Later, Fort ran a dance studio in L.A., teaching many celebrities, including which of these?
a. Eartha Kitt
b. James Earl Jones
c. Marlon Brando
d. James Dean
e. all of the above

21. Seattle's Negro Repertory Company, part of the New Deal-era Federal Theater Project, staged the third highest number of productions among federal black theater groups in the nation, behind New York City and Boston.
a. True
b. False

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	Supporters of the Seattle Open Housing Referendum march downtown on March 7, 1964. The ballot measure proposed making housing discrimination illegal.

22. On March 10, 1964, the Open Housing Referendum, designed to make housing discrimination a misdemeanor, was on the Seattle ballot. What did voters say?
a. 51 percent supported it
b. 51 percent opposed it
c. 68 percent opposed it

23. In what year did mandatory busing end in Seattle?
a. 1979
b. 1989
c. 1999

24. In what year did African Americans outnumber Asian Americans in Seattle?
a. 1930
b. 1950
c. 1970
d. 1990

25. Who was Seattle's first black city council member?
a. Norm Rice
b. Sam Smith
c. Sherry Harris
d. Ron Sims

26. Who was Seattle's first black mayor?
a. Norm Rice
b. Sam Smith
c. Ron Sims
d. Wes Uhlmann

27. The first African-American church in Seattle, the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, was founded in what year?
a. 1886
b. 1896
c. 1906

How did you do? Check your answers.

Sources: "Calabash: A Guide to the History, Culture, and Art of African Americans in Seattle and King County, Washington," by Esther Hall Mumford (Ananse Press, 1993); "Seattle Black Victorians, 1852-1901," by Esther Hall Mumford (Ananse Press, 1980); "The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle's Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era," by Quintard Taylor (University of Washington Press, 1994); "Jackson Street After Hours: The Roots of Jazz in Seattle," by Paul de Barros (Sasquatch Books, 1993); www.HistoryLink.org