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What month is considered Black History Month?
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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Who invented the elevator?
Who is Alexander Miles
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Who was the first African American Olympian to win the all-around title in gymnastics?
Gabby Douglas
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Where is the birthplace of Jazz
New Orleans
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Who started Black History Month?
Carter J. Woodson
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What was the name for his most famous speech?
" I Have A Dream" Speech
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Who invented peanut butter?
Who is George Washington Carver
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Who is known as the fastest man in the world?
Usain Bolt
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This famous Jazz singer and scatter was known as the lady of song and also performed duets with Duke Ellington and Luis Armstrong.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald
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Who was the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
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Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award in a leading role?
Who is Sidney Poitier
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This woman was the first self-made millionaire and she invented her own hair care line.
Madame C. J. Walker
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Who was the star of Black Panther?
Chadwick Boseman
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This King of Pop told you to change the world by starting with the man in the mirror.
Michael Jackson
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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?
Rosa Parks
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True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation gave African Americans the right to vote?
False. It was an executive order by President Abraham Lincoln to free the slaves.
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This African American man invented the pencil sharpener.
John Lee Love
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Who was the first African American actress to win an Academy Award for best actress?
Halle Berry
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This important element of Jazz and what makes Jazz the music of freedom means to make up your own part.
What is improvisation.
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Who was the first African American to travel into space?
Guion Stewart Bluford
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Citizens enslaved in this state were last to be notified of their freedom.
What is Texas
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Who invented the traffic signal?
Who is Garret Morgan
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Who was the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer for the American Ballet?
Misty Copeland
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This anthem was first written as a poem by John Rosamond Johnson and later put to music by his brother James Weldon Johnson.
What is Lift Every Voice and Sing.