Fun Facts & First
This month celebrates Black History Month
What is February?
He gave the “I Have a Dream” speech
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This amendment ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
He was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era and wore number 42
Who is Jackie Robinson?
She became one of the first female self-made millionaires by creating haircare products for Black women
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
He was the first African American president of the United States and served two terms from 2009 to 2017
Who is Barack Obama?
The founder of Black History Month.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
She refused to give up her bus seat.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This amendment gave Black men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
He is a famous golfer who started playing very young and became one of the most successful Black athletes in golf history.
Who is Tiger Woods?
He improved the electric light bulb with a better filament
Who is Lewis Latimer?
He spent 27 years in prison for fighting apartheid and became South Africa’s first Black president
Who is Nelson Mandela?
Black History Month was first called this
What is Negro History Week?
She led people to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
These laws enforced segregation by keeping Black and white people separated in public places
What are Jim Crow laws?
She is an African American gymnast famous for amazing flips and has won many Olympic gold medals
Who is Simone Biles?
He was a scientist and inventor known for finding hundreds of uses for peanuts
Who is George Washington Carver?
She was the “Queen of Soul” and used her music to inspire the civil rights movement.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
February honors the birthdays of these two important American leaders—one was a president, and the other was a famous abolitionist and writer.
Who are Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass?
She integrated an all-white school as a child
Who is Ruby Bridges?
Supreme Court case that ended school segregation
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
He won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and proved that talent and hard work matter more than race
Who is Jesse Owens?
He invented a traffic signal and early gas mask to help keep people safe.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
This movement started in 2013 to fight against unfair treatment of Black people and promote equality.
What is Black Lives Matter?
NAACP stand for what?
What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This law protected voting rights.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
She is a tennis superstar who has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles and often played doubles with her sister.
Who is Serena Williams?
She helped invent the technology that makes internet calling and video calls possible and holds hundreds of patents
Who is Marian R. Croak?
She is the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?