Game-Changers
Who created the first video game?
Jerry Lawson
An American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
Rosa Parks
What historical figure was president during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
What year did slavery start in America?
1619
Who am I? I was one of the first African Americans to go to an all white school.
Ruby Bridges
A civil rights activist, baptist pastor, and co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership. Also made the famous speech that was said at the Lincon Memorial.
MLK Jr
At what day were the last slaves freed from slavery?
June 19th
A former slave, _________ became an advocate for abolition
Sojourner Truth
She was a famous mathematician and the first Black Manager at NASA)
Dorothy Vaughan
American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years.
Maya Angelou
Who made the southern states form the Confederacy?
Abraham Lincoln
Crispus Attucks
I went to college when I was 15 and survived an assassination. Who am I?
MLK Jr
An American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide. She was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
Claudette Colvin
When was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
1862
What were the names of the families who supported the Underground Railroad?
The Quakers
I am the first African American to be a judge in the Supreme Court. Who I am?
Thurgood Marshall
An early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman to hold a pilot's license. She earned her license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale on June 15, 1921, and is the earliest known Black person to earn an international pilot's license.
Bessie Coleman
What did General Pickett do before the Civil War?
Help someone trying to start a war with Britain over the shooting of a pig
I was born in Tuckahoe, Maryland, and have no accurate knowledge of my age
Frederick Douglass