What month is considered Black History Month?
February
What was the name of the African American woman who helped hundreds of slaves in the southern United States escape to freedom?
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This book and movie profiled four women whose work as mathematicians played an important role in the US space program.
What is Hidden Figures?
Born Cassius Clay, he is the self-proclaimed greatest of all time in boxing and is know for rhymes like "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee".
Who was Muhammad Ali?
Who is Langston Hughes?
In 2008, he became the first African American President of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
Walgreens’ CEO and only Black woman to currently lead a Fortune 500 firm
Who is Rosalind Brewer?
He is responsible for developing two new breeds of cattle that were specifically created thrive in Jamaica’s tropical conditions.
Who was Dr Thomas P Lecky?
Who is known as the fastest man in the world?
Who is Usain Bolt?
This current artist just recently released her newest album, "SOS"
Who was SZA?
This federal holiday happens on June 19th and commemorates the end of slavery in the United States
What is Juneteenth?
This is the word used to describe people who worked to end slavery.
What is abolitionist?
This woman was the first self-made millionaire and she invented her own hair care line.
Who was Madame C. J. Walker?
He was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball, joining the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
Who was Jackie Robinson?
This King of Pop told you to change the world by starting with the man in the mirror.
Who was Michael Jackson?
She triggered a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus system in 1955 by refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus.
Who was Rosa Parks?
What was the name for his most famous speech?
" I Have A Dream" Speech
Her eight-day space flight aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 1992 established her as the United States' first female African American space traveler.
Who is Mae Jemison
In 1997, he was the first African American professional golfer to win the Masters Golf Tournament.
Who is Tiger Woods?
Stevie Wonder wrote the song "Happy Birthday" for this famous civil rights leader. He also campaigned to have his birthday made into a national holiday.
Who was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who was the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court?
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
Citizens enslaved in this state were last to be notified of their freedom.
What is Texas?
She earned an international pilot’s license on June 15, 1921, in France after being rejected from American flight schools for being black and a woman. She returned to the US to teach other to fly and was known for her stunts.
Who was Bessie Coleman?
She was the first Jamaican woman to win gold in the Olympic 100m
Who is Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce?
Who is the only artist to chart 7 consecutive #1 Billboard Hot 100 hits?
Who is Whitney Houston?