Key Figures
Leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
who is Martin Luther King ?
This month celebrates the history, culture, and contributions of African Americans.
What is Black History Month?
This genre blends soul, funk, and pop and is often abbreviated with three letters.
What is R&B?
This scientist developed hundreds of uses for peanuts and promoted crop rotation.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This is a common way to learn more during Black History Month by joining talks or presentations.
What are events or lectures?
This former enslaved woman led dozens to freedom via the Underground Railroad and was later nicknamed “Moses.”
This woman became the first Black female Vice President of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
She wrote the novel Beloved and won a Nobel Prize in Literature.
Who is Toni Morrison?
This term describes the process of creating new tools, machines, or methods to solve problems.
What is innovation?
Buying from these helps support economic empowerment in Black communities.
What are black-owned businesses?
This formerly enslaved abolitionist used his autobiography and powerful speeches to argue that slavery corrupted both enslaved people and slaveholders in 19th-century America.
Who is Fredrick Douglas?
This Supreme Court case ended segregation in public schools in 1954.
What is Brown Vs. Board of Education?
This contemporary artist is known for painting Black figures in classical portrait styles.
Who is Kehinde Wiley?
He invented an early version of the traffic signal and a safety hood that improved firefighter gear.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
Reading books, watching movies, and enjoying paintings by Black creators is exploring this.
What is Black literature, art, and film?
Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus helped spark a year-long boycott and energized the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Rosa Parks?
He was known as the “King of Pop” and broke racial barriers in music and media.
Who is Micheal Jackson?
He was the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor.
Who is Sidney Poitier?
This NASA mathematicians' calculations were critical to the success of the Apollo moon missions.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
These places preserve and showcase Black history, culture, and achievements for public learning.
What are museums or historical sites?
This civil rights leader advocated Black nationalism and self-defense, served as a spokesperson for the Nation of Islam, and later founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Who is Malcolm X?
This term refers to people of African descent living outside Africa.
What is the African diaspora?
This tennis champion has won more Grand Slam titles than any other player in the Open Era.
Who is Serena Williams?
He helped co-invent the personal computer while working at IBM.
Who is Mark Dean?
Participating in these activities during Black History Month helps raise awareness and honor African American Heritage.
What are celebrations or commemorations?