Black History Month I
Black History Month II
Black Inventors
Black History Month Entertainers
Vocabulary
Sports
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What month is considered Black History Month?
WHAT IS: February
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What was the name of the African American woman who helped hundreds of slaves in the southern United States escape to freedom?
Who is: Harriet Tubman
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What black inventor invented the elevator?
- a) Alexander Miles
- b) Kenneth J. Dunkley
- c) G.E. Becket
- d) Javarey D. Catey
Who is Alexander Miles
100
Who is known as the King of Pop?
Who is: Michael Jackson
100
What does achievement mean?
WHAT IS: Something done successfully with effort, courage and skill
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Who is the first African American Olympian to win the All-Around Title in gymnastics?
Who is Gabby Douglas
200
Who started Black History Month?
WHO IS: Carter J. Woodson
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In what state did, four African American college students stage a sit-in that helped integrate Woolworth's store's lunch counter?
What is:
Greensboro, North Carolina
The Greensboro Four were four young Black men who staged the first sit-in at Greensboro: Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil. They sat and stayed sitting at the segregated stores lunch counter despite being refused services. They had been spurred to action by the brutal murder in 1955 of a young Black boy, Emmett Till, who had allegedly whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi store.
200
What black inventor invented peanut butter?
- a) Robert C. James
- b) Kenneth J. Dunkley
- c) Ronald S. Hugley
- d) George Washington Carver
Who is: George Washington Carver
200
Who is know as one of the greatest guitarist of all time?
A.) Pince
B.) Jimi Hendrix
C.) B.B. King
D.) Chuck Berry
Who is Jimi Hendrix
200
What is activism?
WHAT IS: Action of using campaigning to bring about political or social change.
200
Who is the fastest man in the world?
Who is Usain Bolt
300
Who was the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court?
WHO IS: Thurgood Marshall
300
True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation gave African Americans the right to vote?
WHAT IS: False.
It was an executive order by President Abraham Lincoln to free the slaves.
300
Who is best known for his invention of 3D glasses?
- a) Robert C. James
- b) Kenneth J. Dunkley
- c) Ronald S. Hugley
- d) Javarey D. Catey
Who is Kenneth J. Dunkley. He is known as the leading man in the filed of holography and discovered you could create a unique 3D visual effect by blocking off 2 points in a human's peripheral vision. He patented the design in 1986.
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Who was the star in the movie Black Panther?
WHO IS: Chadwick Boseman
300
What is emancipation?
WHAT IS: The process of being set free from legal restrictions.
300
Who was the first Black Major League Baseball player?
Who is Jackie Robinson.
400
Who triggered a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus system in 1955 by refusing to give up their seat to a white passenger on a bus?
WHO IS: Rosa Parks
400
What was the name of MLK's most famous speech?
WHAT IS: "I Have A Dream"
400
What black inventor invented the letterbox?
- a) Robert C. James
- b) G.E. Becket
- c) Ronald S. Hugley
- d) Javarey D. Catey
Who is G.E. Becket
400
Who was the first African American actress to win an Academy Award for best actress?
WHO IS: Halle Berry
400
What is justice?
WHAT IS: Just behavior or treatment.
400
Who was the first Black quarterback to lead his team to a Super Bowl championship ?
Who is Doug Williams.
500
What is considered to be the first HBCU (Historically black colleges and universities) in America?
- a) Tuskegee University
- b) HOward University
- c) Florida A&M
- d) Atlanta University
WHAT IS:
Atalanta University - Now Clark Atalanta University - is known to be the first HBCU ins the U.S. HBCUs are Historically Black Colleges or Universities and Atlanta University was founded just 3 months after the Civil War.
500
Interracial marriage was illegal in the US until what year?
What is: 1967 That is only 54 years ago! The ruling to abolish the law was largely in part of Mildred and Richard Loving who were a biracial couple who were arrested in Virginia for secretly marrying after finding out they were pregnant.
500
What black inventor invented the traffic signal?
- a) Robert C. James
- b) Kenneth J. Dunkley
- c) Garret Morgan
- d) George Washington Carver
Who is Garret Morgan
500
The first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer for the American Ballet?
WHO IS:Misty Copeland
500
What is segregation?
WHAT IS: The act of segregating, separation or isolation of race, class, or ethnic group by enforcement.
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What professional boxer was originally named in honor of a white abolitionist?
WHO IS: Muhammed Ali.
The fighter, like his father, was named for Cassius Marcellus Clay, a 19th-century farmer and anti-slavery crusader who emancipated the 40 slaves he inherited from his father. The abolitionist, a second cousin of Kentucky Senator Henry Clay, edited an anti-slavery newspaper, commanded troops in the Mexican-American War and served as minister to Russia under President Abraham Lincoln. In defying Southern conventions of the time, Clay faced more than death threats. He was beaten, stabbed and shot by political opponents but lived to the age of 92.