Black History Month Females
This courageous woman helped more than 300 slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
This person was an African American leader in the civil rights movement, Muslim minister, and supporter of Black Nationalism
Malcolm X
Formerly named Cassius Clay, this American heavyweight fighter is considered the best of all time?
Muhammad Ali
Who is known as the "King of Pop"?
Michael Jackson
African American Tennis player who has won 23 Grand Slam titles
Serena Williams
The first African American to play a major sport. When this player joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, baseball was segregated.
Double points if you can tell me his jersey number!
Jackie Robinson
An American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.
"perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history"
Jesse Owens
She's famous for being the first black student to attend an all-white school.
Ruby Bridges
Born in rural poverty, and raised by a mother dependent on government welfare payments in a poor urban neighborhood, She became a millionaire at the age of 32 when her talk show received national syndication.
Oprah Winfrey
Who is the first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, as well as the country's first black head of state?
Nelson Mandela
Which sport was created by a white man but popularized by black men?
Basketball
He was the first African American Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall