BHM
Black History Month started in this year?
1926
Studied animal behavior
Charles Henry Turner
GOAT basketball player but also works hard to support education and children in his community
Lebron James
Leader in Civil Rights Movement
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Famous speech given by MLK
"I have a dream..."
Black History started as a celebration that was how long?
1 week
The women featured in Hidden figures were Black mathematicians who helped NASA do what?
send astronauts into space
1st Black woman astronaut
Mae Jemison
1st Black Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall
Wife of MLK
Coretta Scott King
BHM was started because at the time, Black achievements
were left out of history books
Created tools that made everyday life safer including traffic signals and safety equipment.
Garrett Morgan
1st Black military pilots in the Unites States Army Air Corps.
Tuskegee Airmen
1st woman and 1st Black/Indian Vice President
Kamala Harris
How many principles of nonviolence are there?
6
Number of historically black colleges and universities
107
Bill Withers
Sisters who became champions in tennis.
Venus and Serena Williams
Stacey Abrams
Name of church where MLK was baptized
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Father of Black History
Carter G. Woodson
Movie director for Black Panter
Ryan Coogler
1st Black astronaut in space
Guion Bluford
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
district that MLK's birth home is part of
Sweet Auburn