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Who started the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
Who was the first female black astronaut
Mae C. Jemison
Who was the first black president
Barack Obama
What are the Black History month colors (must get 3 of the 4 right)
Black, red yellow and green
Who was the first black person to go to a white school
Ruby Bridges
Who was the fastest woman of all time
Florence Joyner
what event took place between 1954 to 1968
Civil rights movement
What event took place between 1861 to 1865
Civil War
Who was the movie Hidden Figures about
Kathrine Johnson
Who was the first black person to win a Grammy
Ella Fitzgerald
Who gave a speech called " I've been to the mountaintop"
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who was the first black principle ballerina at the American Ballet Theater
Misty Copeland
Which black journalist was born into slavery risked her life to report the truth
Ida B. Wells
who was the first African-American justice appointed to the United States Supreme Court in 1967
Thurgood Marshall
Who did Barack Obama give the Presidential Medal of Freedom to in 2013
Oprah Winfrey
Who was the first African American woman to earn a medical degree
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
When was Black History Month started
1926
Why was February chosen as Black History Month
It contains the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.
Who was the first black pilot in america
Eugene Jacques Bullard
How many peanut products did George Washington Carver invent
Over 300
Who was the first African American women in the United States to earn a doctoral degree.
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
Who was the first black doctor
James McCune Smith
Who was the first American woman to become a self-made millionaire
Madam C. J. Walker
Who started Black History Month
Carter G. Woodson
Who are the top 5 black historical figures (name at least 3)
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and Muhammad Ali