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100

Black History Month started in this year?

1926

100

Studied animal behavior

Charles Henry Turner

100

GOAT basketball player but also works hard to support education and children in his community

Lebron James

100

Leader in Civil Rights Movement

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

100

Famous speech given by MLK

"I have a dream..."

200

Black History started as a celebration that was how long?

1 week

200

The women featured in Hidden figures were Black mathematicians who helped NASA do what?

send astronauts into space

200

1st Black woman astronaut

Mae Jemison

200

1st Black Supreme Court Justice

Thurgood Marshall

200

Wife of MLK

Coretta Scott King

300

BHM was started because at the time, Black achievements

were left out of history books

300

Created tools that made everyday life safer including traffic signals and safety equipment. 

Garrett Morgan

300

1st Black military pilots in the Unites States Army Air Corps.

Tuskegee Airmen

300

1st woman and 1st Black/Indian Vice President

Kamala Harris

300

How many principles of nonviolence are there?

6

400

Number of historically black colleges and universities

107

400
"Lean on Me" is by what famous Black musician?

Bill Withers

400

Sisters who became champions in tennis. 

Venus and Serena Williams

400
Political leader who encourages participation and fairness in the voting process

Stacey Abrams

400

Name of church where MLK was baptized

Ebenezer Baptist Church

500

Father of Black History

Carter G. Woodson

500

Movie director for Black Panter

Ryan Coogler

500

1st Black astronaut in space

Guion Bluford

500

2 women that both stood up against unfair bus rules refusing to give up their seats in a display of defiance

Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks

500

district that MLK's birth home is part of

Sweet Auburn

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