Civil Rights
This speech by Martin Luther King Jr. inspired many Americans to join the fight against inequality.
What is "I Have A Dream"?
This person was the first African American U.S. president.
Who is Barack Obama?
This month is the month Black History Month is celebrated.
What is February?
This person refused to give up her seat on a public bus and sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This is the name of Martin Luther King Jr's speech that he gave after the March on Washington.
What is "I have a dream"?
Martin Luther King Jr. was greatly inspired by this person's methods of non-violent protesting in India.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This person is usually credited with being the first African American professional baseball player in the modern era.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This country is where Black History Month was first created and celebrated.
What is the United States of America?
This singer-songwriter is the most nominated woman in the Grammy Award's history and the most awarded artist at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Who is Beyonce Knowles?
This is what skin color correlates most closely with.
What is Geographic Latitude?
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown v. The Board of Education?
This person was the first African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The birthday of this president who is credited with freeing the slaves falls within Black History Month and is part of the reason why that month was chosen.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This person was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Who is Malcolm X?
This was the name given to the nine African-American students who began to attend a formerly all-white school as a test of Brown v. Board of Education.
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
This Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This person was the first African American U.S. Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?
The birthday of this former slave who escaped to become one of the most famous leaders of the abolitionist movement falls within Black History Month and is part of the reason why that month was chosen.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This form of music is an African–American musical form born out of the blues, ragtime and marching bands, originated in Louisiana during the turn of the 19th century.
What is jazz?
This is the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
This person was the first African American to win the Academy Award for best actress.
Who is Halle Berry?
This historian is known as the creator of Black History Month.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
Who is George Washington Carver?
Garrett Morgan, who was the first African-American to own a car in Cleveland, Ohio, was known for the creation of this important driving-related invention?
What is the three way traffic light?