✊🏾 Civil Rights Leaders
This leader gave the famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
He broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This actor was in the film Wakanda.
Who is Chadwick Boseman
He invented the traffic light.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
This month is celebrated each year to honor Black history and achievements in the United States and Canada.
What is Black History Month?
She refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This basketball player won 6 NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Who is Michael Jordan?
He was the King of Pop.
Who is Michael Jackson?
She invented the home security system.
Who is Marie Van Brittan Brown?
This Canadian civil rights activist appears on the Canadian $10 bill.
Who is Viola Desmond?
He was a major leader in the Nation of Islam and fought for Black empowerment.
Who is Malcolm X?
She dominated women’s tennis and has 23 Grand Slam singles titles.
Who is Serena Williams?
This rapper founded Roc-A-Fella Records and married Beyoncé.
Who is Jay-Z?
He invented the blood bank storage system.
Who is Charles R. Drew?
This movement began in 2013 to protest police violence and racial injustice.
What is Black Lives Matter?
This Canadian woman refused to leave a whites-only section of a movie theatre in 1946 in Nova Scotia.
Who is Viola Desmond?
This boxer was known as “The Greatest.”
Who is Muhammad Ali?
She became the first Black woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress in 2002.
Who is Halle Berry?
She invented hair care products and became one of the first self-made female millionaires.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
This style of music began in the Bronx in the 1970s and includes rapping and DJing.
What is hip-hop?
She was an Underground Railroad conductor who led enslaved people to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
He became the first Black Formula 1 world champion.
Who is Lewis Hamilton?
She is known as the “Queen of Soul.”
Who is Aretha Franklin?
He invented the modern day "Water Gun".
This holiday celebrates the end of slavery in the United States on June 19.
What is Juneteenth?