FAMOUS PEOPLE
This athlete played on the Brooklyn Dodgers and made history by being the first African American baseball player in the Major League.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This woman is the first African American First Lady.
Who is Michelle Obama?
This movie highlights the achievements of the three African American women who helped launch astronaut John Glenn into space.
What is Hidden Figures?
This singer from Detroit defined the golden age of soul music and is known for her hit “Respect (R-E-S-P-E-C-T).”
Etta James
Whitney Houston
Aretha Franklin
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This Harvard law graduate went on to become the first black president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
This female multi-billionaire aired a show for 25 seasons, is a philanthropist, and now has her own network, OWN.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
This man marshalled his ambitions to become the first African American justice on the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Black History Month is celebrated this month because these two historical figures had birthdays in February.
Who are Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas?
This artist had the most Grammy Award nominations in 2023.
Beyoncé
Kendrick Lamar
Lizzo
Who is Beyonce?
A "conductor" of the Underground Railroad, this person was known as "Moses" and helped free many slaves in the late 1800s.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This song artist started young in a group of 5 and made every day a thriller while performing.
Who is Michael Jackson?
Claudette Colvin, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Coretta Scott King were all impactful women in this social movement.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This march in 1963 gave a lot of people dreams and a chance to reflect on their lives and the monuments around them.
What is the March on Washington?
This country, in addition to the Netherlands, celebrates Black History Month in October.
Japan
The UK
Chile
What is the UK?
This African American politician and activist played a key role in the March on Washington and the Selma to Montgomery March, and was a U.S. congressman for over 30 years.
Who was John Lewis?
An entrepreneur and a connoisseur of hair products for Black women, she was the first female Self-Made millionaire in America.
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
This proclamation and executive order issued by the 16th president declared that all enslaved people would henceforth be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
On December 5, 1955, this year-long Civil Rights movement began, changing transportation laws and, as a bonus, reducing carbon footprints.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This activist was the first African American woman to be elected to Congress.
Kamala Harris
Maxine Waters
Shirley Chisholm
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This young woman performed her speech “The Hill We Climb” at President Biden’s 2021 inauguration.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
This African American astrophysicist and astronomer graduated from Harvard and has been quoted saying, “The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”
Who is Neil Degrasse Tyson.
In this Supreme Court case involving Oliver and Linda Brown, segregation in public schools was deemed unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
During this fight in Boston, an African American man named Crispus Attucks was the first to be killed by a British soldier.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This part of the Constitution states that enslaved people can only be counted as a fraction of a white man.
The One-Tenths Arm Law
The Three-Fifths Clause
The Decimal Declaration
What is the Three-Fifths Clause?
This African American women who worked at NASA later became a legislator and activist.
Who is Katherine Johnson?