Historical Figures
Rosa Parks helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a ______.
Bus
Serena Williams won 23 Grand Slam singles titles. She plays this sport professionally, with a small green ball, a racket, and a net.
Tennis
In the 1920s, Black musicians made this type of music popular. Bands who play this type of music will have a piano, trumpet, guitar, and a saxophone.
Jazz
George Washington Carver popularized this food, which goes well with jelly on a sandwich.
Peanut Butter
Bessie Coleman was a leader in aviation (flying planes). She became the first licensed Black ____.
pilot
This man is well known for his nonviolent protests in the 1950s and 1960s and for giving a speech called "I Have A Dream".
Martin Luther King Jr.
Michael Jordan has won six championships and was the Finals MVP 6 times. He is well known for his impressive slam dunks. What sport did he play?
Basketball
Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars? She sings "Single Ladies" and played Nala in The Lion King (2019)
Beyonce
Known as a “human computer,” Dorothy Johnson Vaughan was part of a team that did mathematical calculations to help launch satellites—and later humans—into ________.
Space
Who was elected President of the United States in the year 2008? He was the first Black President.
Barrack Obama
Harriet Tubman is well known for risking her life as a “conductor” in the Underground ________, which led escaped enslaved people to freedom in the North.
Railroad
Dubbed "The Flying Squirrel" for her high leaps in competition, Gabby Douglas is a multiple gold medal-winning world champion and Olympian. She has won many gold medals for ________.
gymnastics
The 1980's was considered the golden age of this type of music. Rappers like MC Hammer, Sir Mix a Lot, and Run DMC made it popular.
Hip Hop
Madame C.J. Walker manufactured beauty products for other African-American women using formulas she developed after working for a pharmacist who taught her chemistry. She invented a popular _____ that cleans and softens hair.
Shampoo
This woman was elected Vice President in 2020. She is the first Black Vice President of the United States.
Kamala Harris
Nelson Mandela was a civil rights leader in South Africa. He fought against apartheid, a system where non-white citizens were segregated from whites and did not have equal rights. He eventually became _____ of South Africa.
president
Muhammad Ali was raised in the segregated South, and became a world champion in his sport. He would put on his gloves and step into the ring. What sport did he do?
Boxing
Singers like Little Richard and Chuck Berry made this type of music popular in the 1950s. This kind of music has drums and bass guitar in it.
Rock and Roll
Mae Jemison was an astronaut, and the first female African American space traveler. She worked for ____.
NASA
Alvin Ailey was well known for dance. He taught dances to other Black dancers, and this job is called a _______.
choreographer
This man led 600 people across Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in 1965 to protest for equal voting rights. He called his protests "good trouble".
John Lewis
He broke baseballs color barrier by becoming the Brooklyn Dodgers first African American baseball player.
Jackie Robinson
This is what R&B stands for: Rhythm and ____
Blues
Garrett Morgan blazed a trail for African American inventors with his inventions. He improved the _____ after seeing a carriage accident at a busy street in the city.
traffic light
Maya Angelou was a famous writer. One of her most famous things she wrote was a book about her own life called "I Know Why the Caged ____ Sings"
Bird