African American History
The month that Black History Month is celebrated.
What is February?
What was the name of the African American woman who helped hundreds of slaves in the southern United States escape to freedom?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Who invented the elevator?
Who is Alexander Miles
Who is Kimberly Bryant?
What is the founder of Black Girls Code and successful electrical engineer. Black girls can code is a nonprofit that empowers girls from underrepresented communities by introducing them to programming
Black History Month was created by this man.
Who is Carter J. Woodson?
The first African American to win an Academy Award in a leading role.
Who is Sidney Poitier?
Who invented peanut butter
Who is George Washington Carver
Who was Alan Emtage?
What is creator of search engines, developed in 1990, his program was the world’s first engine, or what Emtage calls the “great great grandfather of Google and all those other search engines.”
Who is Aprille Ericsson?
What is Howard Universities first African American woman to receive a PhD in Mechanical Engineering (the Aerospace option) in addition to receive a PhD in Engineering at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC).
The first African American justice on the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The Emancipation Proclamation gave African Americans the right to vote. True or False
What is True?
Who invented the horse shoe?
Who is Oscar E. Brown
Who is Angela Benton?
What founder of Streamlytics, NewME and co founder of B20. B20 aims to highlight the exceptional innovation and talent “of Blacks in the technology and new media industries” while NewME is a platform that helps minority and women entrepreneurs create successful businesses.
Who is the first African American woman to enter space and holds nine doctorates in science?
What is Mae Jemison.
This person triggered a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus system in 1955 by refusing to give up their seat to a white passenger on a bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This famous speech was delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Washington, DC.
What is the "I Have a Dream" speech?
Who invented the letter box
Who is G.E. Becket
What is known as one of the first black technologist, and one of few dozen inducted into the Silicon Valley Hall of Fame.
What is PlayVS? Who is it’s founder?
Who is Delane Parnell, founder and CEO of PlayVS. A amatuer esports platform currently partnering 23 state high school leagues, and numerous colleges and universities, and offers additional youth organizations and events.
Who was the first African American to travel in space?
Who is Guion Stewart Bluford
Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?
Who is Jackie Robinson
Who invented the traffic signal
Who is Garret Morgan
What is an inventor and computer programmer who help create the first home computer and color PC monitor.
What are Beats headphones?
Who is Andre Young, aka Dr. Dre. His signature headphones created a product so popular that it led to the largest Apple acquisition of all time (a cool $2.6 billion dollars).