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The founder of Black History Month.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
The former slave who led 70 enslaved people to freedom using the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. March 1822 – March 10, 1913)?
The civil rights activist best known for nonviolent civil rights demonstrations.
Who was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr?
The first African American child to desegregate an all white Elementary School in 1960.
Who was Ruby Nell Bridges?
The 1896 Supreme Court case coined the phrase separate but equal.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
The year the U.S. started celebrating Black History Month.
When is 1969?
The woman who went to court in 1828 to recover her son and won
Who was Sojourner Truth (Born Isabella Baumfree)?
The civil rights activist who refused to give up their seat on a public bus that sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955.
Who was Rosa Parks?
The first African American president of the United States.
Who is President Barack Hussein Obama!
The name of the state and local laws that historically enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
What were Jim Crow Laws?
The two figures responsible for Black History Month observance in February.
Who were Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas?
The first African American Millionaire.
Who was Madame C. J. Walker (Born Sarah Breedlove)?
The civil rights activist who was a minister for the Nation of Islam's.
Who was Malcolm X?
The first African America Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the US.
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
The constitutional amendment that abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
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The day African American's celebrate the end of slavery?
The three countries that celebrate Black History Month.
What are the US, UK, and Canada?
The woman who founded the HBCU Bethune Cookman University?
Who was Mary Jane Mcleod Bethune or Mary McLeod Bethune?
The civil rights activist assassinated in 1963 for working to end segregation of public facilities.
Who was Medgar Evers?
The first African American to be on a US postage stamp.
Who was Booker Taliaferro Washington?
The 1954 Supreme Court decision that decreed that public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The actor who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black History is American History."?
Who is Morgan Freeman?
The woman whose calculations were critical to the success of the first and subsequent US space flights.
Who was Katherine Johnson?
The civil right activist who inspired the movie Judas and the Black Messiah.
Who was Fredrick Allen Hampton?
The first African American on the ballot as a candidate for President.
Who was Shirley Chisholm?
The 1854 Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?