Important Dates
This is the month black history is celebrated.
What is February?
This is how more than 300 slaves escaped.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Black history is celebrated in the month this person was born
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Slaves were brought to America
This is the amendment that abolished slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
This horrible act was done to many black people until the 1900s
What is lynching?
The man who wanted black history to be celebrated went to this college
What is Harvard?
What is 1926?
This is what the group of people is called who fought for the freedom of slaves
What is an abolitionist?
This what Black History Month was called when it was first celebrated
What is Negro History Week?
This journal was founded in 1916 and was dedicated to the contributions of Black Americans in history
What is the Journal of Black History?
What is 1865?
This black man who helped pass laws to eliminate slavery was born in the same month as Abraham Lincoln
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This book was written by the person who first celebrated black history
What is The Mis-Education of Negroes?
This scholar first wrote about the contribution of black Americans in history
Who is Carter Goodwin Woodson?