Women in Black History
The first Black female writer to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
Who is Toni Morrison?
First Black President of the United States
Who is Barak Obama?
Who was a baseball player who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball?
Who is Jackie Robinson?
What month do we celebrate Black History Month?
What is February?
What does NAACP stand for?
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
The first African American actress to win an Academy Award for best actress.
Who is Halle Berry?
He won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany.
Who is Jesse Owens?
The first person to refuse to give her seat up on a bus. She was 15 when she refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery Alabama.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
This person became the first Black American woman to serve as the United States Secretary of State in 2001.
Who is Condoleezza Rice?
This court case ended legal segregation in public schools
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This black hair entrepreneur invented the hot comb.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
The ideas of this 1960s civil rights activist clashed with Dr. MLK Jr.'s philosophy of peaceful protest. His autobiography was titled "By Any Means Necessary."
Who is Malcolm X?
He discovered better ways to store blood safely, which led to the creation of modern blood banks.
Who is Charles Drew?
What group of Black pilots became legendary for their success in World War II?
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
This is what HBCU stands for.
What is "Historically Black College and University?"
Who is the first African American woman Supreme Court Justice?
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
First African American to hold a seat on the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
She created a laser procedure to treat cataracts which helped restore sight to people around the world.
Who is Dr. Patricia Bath?
This activist declared, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress,” in his 1857 speech on abolition and self-determination.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
What is the oldest national civil rights organization?
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
This gymnast became the most decorated American gymnast in history, with 32 Olympic and World Championship medals.
Who is Simone Biles?
He is known as the Father of Black History
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
This boxer refused the Vietnam War draft and later regained his heavyweight title.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
Juneteenth is on this day.
What is June 19th.
What was the federal law that was passed in 2022 that the NAACP had worked for over 100 years to get passed?
What is the Anti-Lynching Law?