Correct answer - a. 1882

Richards

2. In 1994, Hilda Richards was appointed chancellor, making history as the first black female to hold an IU chancellorship. Can you name the campus she led?

Correct answer - c. Northwest

3. In 1954, Alpha Phi Alpha was the first black team to enter the Little 500 race. What year did the next black team enter the cycling competition?

Correct answer - d. 1992

For more on African-American organized Greek history at IU, go to the Office of Multicultural Affairs Web site:
http://www.indiana.edu/~oma/AA/greeks.html

4. In the 1940s, operatic and concert vocalist Marian Anderson performed at Indiana University. Name the significance of her visit.

a. She is the first black person to perform in the IU Auditorium.
b. She is the first black person to stay overnight in the Indiana Memorial Union hotel.

Correct answer(s)- both a. and b. are correct

Garrett

5. In 1947 IU’s Bill Garrett became the Big Ten’s first black athlete in which sport

Correct answer - a. basketball

For more on African-American athletics history at IU, go to the Office of Multicultural Affairs Web site:
http://www.indiana.edu/~oma/AA/athletics.html

Atkins

6. Thomas Irving Atkins was elected IU’s first black student body president in 1960. His election also marked another first for black students because:

Correct answer - a. Atkins was the first black student body president at any Big Ten school

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Hudson

7. The African American Arts Institute was founded in 1974. Name its founding director who also founded IU Bloomington’s Department of Afro-American Studies (now called the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies):

Correct answer - a. Herman Hudson

8. In January 2002, the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center was dedicated in honor of the first male and first female African-American graduates of IU – Marcellus Neal and Frances Elizabeth Marshall. Which IU departments are also housed at the center:

1. African American Cultural Center Library
2. African American Arts Institute
3. Office of Diversity Education
4. Office of Community and School Partnerships

The correct answer is:
e. all of the above

Neal	Marshall

For more on the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, go to:
http://www.indiana.edu/~nmbcc/

To read "A Phenomenal Woman," a story about Frances Marshall, republished from Indiana Alumni Magazine, January/February 1999, go to:
http://www.indiana.edu/~alumni/scrapbook/aa/phenom.html

In the March 11 edition of IU Home Pages, look for a story about Frederick Douglass, arguably the most famous African-American opponent of slavery in 19th-century America. Black History Month is celebrated in February as tribute to Douglass, who was born in February 1818. The Frederick Douglass Papers Project is housed at the Department of History at IUPUI.