She is known for being the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad helping slaves reach freedom from the south.
Harriet Tubman
He was a minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination, and is well known for his "I Have A Dream" speech.
Martin Luther King Jr.
He was a basketball player at North Carolina and then with the Chicago Bulls. He is often regarded as one of (if not) the best basketball player ever winning 6 NBA championships and influencing generations still today.
Michael Jordan
She is an American singer-songwriter and actress who achieved fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the R&B group Destiny's Child and then launched a hugely successful solo career. She has a record-setting 32 Grammy Awards.
Beyoncé
The ________ Rights Era movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country against African Americans.
Civil
She was an activist who was best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott where she refused to give up her seat to a white man.
Rosa Parks
He was the first African American President in U.S. history.
Barack Obama
He is widely regarded as one of the greatest golfers of all time tied for first in PGA wins and second in terms of major championships. He was known for his competitive edge and entrepreneurship and media attention brought to golf.
Tiger Woods
He was an American singer and dancer known as the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. Through stage and video performances, he popularized complicated street dance moves such as the moonwalk, which he named, as well as the robot.
Michael Jackson
Racial _____________is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life. It involved the spatial separation of the races, and mandatory use of different institutions, such as schools and hospitals by people of different races.
Segregation
She was the first African American voted in as Vice President with Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
Kamala Harris
He was an escaped slave who became one of the most important abolitionist leaders leading up to and through the Civil War as a public speaker and writer.
Frederick Douglass
She is one of the most decorated American gymnasts in history with seven Olympic gymnastics medals. At the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she became the first female U.S. gymnast to win four gold medals at a single Games, and she was the first gymnast to win three consecutive world all-around titles (2013–15).
Simone Biles
He is a blind American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Detroit who was a child prodigy who developed into one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century with dance hits and love songs.
Stevie Wonder
What year did Black History Month become nationally recognized?
1865, 1958, 1976, 2008
1976
She was the first African-American First Lady of the United States. She became a role model for women advocating for healthy families & education.
Michelle Obama
He was an American Muslim minister and civil rights activist who was a vocal advocate for Black empowerment urging Black Americans to protect themselves against white aggression “by any means necessary."
Malcolm X
She is widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time winning 23 Grand Slam women's singles titles, the most in the Open Era, and the second-most of all time. Her sister Venus is also a well known tennis star.
Serena Williams
She is an American gospel based singer who is best known as one of the best-selling musical performers of the 1980s and ’90s. She earned the longest reigning #1 single on the Hot 100 with “I Will Always Love You.” She earned a Grammy Award for "I Wanna Dance with Somebody."
Whitney Houston
Black History Month was chosen to happen every February because it coincides with what President's birthday?
Abraham Lincoln
She was the first African American woman to own her own production company and became a television icon with her talkshow.
Oprah Winfrey
He was an influential political leader in South Africa helping establish a democracy and removing race barriers and was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
Nelson Mandela
He was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. He broke the color barrier when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947 and was an activist.
Jackie Robinson
He was an American rock guitarist, singer, and composer who fused American traditions of blues, jazz, and rock popularizing the electric guitar.
Jimi Hendrix
What 4 colors represent Black History Month?
(Options: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Black, White)
Red, Green, Black, and Yellow
She was a poet, author, and actress, and a civil rights activist. She became the first African American to have a nonfiction best-seller for her memoir I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings an autobiography about her life as a child facing discrimination.
He was a civil rights lawyer who used the courts to attempt to dismantle segregation in the U.S. & eventually became the nation's first Black United States Supreme Court Justice.
Thurgood Marshall
He was an American professional heavyweight boxer and activist. Nicknamed "the Greatest", he is regarded as one of the most significant sports figures of the 20th century and is often regarded as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.
Muhammad Ali
She became international music star with her singular mix of classic and contemporary R&B. She won 14 Grammys for songs like "No One", "Superwoman" and "Fallin" and is a powerful force in the world of philanthropy.
Alicia Keys
The ______ _______ laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation. Southern laws were enacted by white-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by African Americans during the Reconstruction era.
Jim Crow