Famous Black Women
As a 6-year-old, I entered an all-white school.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
This man had a dream that all people will be equal.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This is the team Jackie Robinson played for.
What is the Brooklyn Dodgers?
This is the month of Black History Month?
What is February?
Who was the first African American president
Barack Obama
This woman refused to give her seat to a white man.
Who is Rosa Parks?
He was the first black President.
Who is Barack Obama?
This is the first African American in the major Leagues?
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This is an annual celebration of the Black heroes in history.
What is Black History Month?
He believed equality could be achieved by temporarily accepting social segregation (equal rights a little at a time).
Booker T. Washington
Who helped 300 slaves escape to freedom?
Harriet Tubman
Who is the first African American to play a major sport. When this player joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, baseball was segregated.
who is Jackie Robinson?
This is Jackie Robinson's number?
What is 42?
These are the 4 colors that represent Black History Month.
What is red, green, black and yellow.
He believed equality could be gained by fighting for civil rights -- right now and he founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
W.E.B. DuBois
Who is Serena Williams?
African American female tennis player
Who is the first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, as well as the country's first black head of state?
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This famous African American won 4 medals in the Berlin Olympics?
Who is Jesse Owens?
Who started Black History Month in 1976?
Carter G. Woodson
Laws that created a system of legal segregation.
Jim Crow Laws
who is She was only 12 when she became the first female African American author published?
who is Phillis Wheatley?
This man was an African American leader in the civil rights movement, minister, and supporter of Black nationalism.
Who was Malcom X?
Who was the first African-American to win the masters golf tournament?
Tiger Woods
Who was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and a great poet, activist, novelist and playwright?
Langston Hughes
Discrimination against African Americans continued after Reconstruction and it was called this:
Segregation
The first African American woman to become a U.S Attorney General on April 27, 2015.
Who is Loretta Lynch?
What are the names of Barack Obama's two daughters?
Malia and Sasha
Who is named "The King of Pop"?
Michael Jackson
Who wrote the poem "Still I Rise"?
Maya Angelou
Who was the first African American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress?
Halle Berry