Civil Rights Leaders
This leader gave the “I Have a Dream” speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
He improved farming by promoting crop rotation with peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver?
He broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
He was the first African American President of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
Black History Month is celebrated in this month.
What is February?
She refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama.
Who is Rosa Parks?
She was a NASA mathematician who helped send astronauts to space.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This period was a celebration of African American art, music, and writing in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
She is the first African American woman Vice President.
Who is Kamala Harris?
Black History Month was started by this historian.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
This lawyer helped win the Brown v. Board of Education case.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
He invented an early version of the traffic light.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
This singer is known as the “Queen of Soul.”
Who is Aretha Franklin?
He was the first African American Supreme Court Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The Civil Rights Act was passed in this year.
What is 1964?
This organization works to ensure equal rights and stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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What is the NAACP?
She became one of the first self-made female millionaires in America
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
He is a famous poet of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote “Dreams.”
Who is Langston Hughes?
She was the first African American woman elected to Congress.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
The 13th Amendment ended this practice in the United States.
What is slavery?
This activist helped lead the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
She was the first African American woman in space.
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Who is Mae Jemison?
This music genre began in African American communities in New Orleans.
What is jazz?
This holiday celebrates the end of slavery in the United States.
What is Juneteenth?
This peaceful protest helped end bus segregation in Alabama.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?