What month is considered Black History Month?
A) January
B) February
C) March
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 was the first African American Olympian to win the all-around title in gymnastics?
Gabby Douglas
What does achievement mean?
Something done successfully with effort, courage and skill
Who started Black History Month
A) Abraham Lincoln
B) Barack Obama
C) Carter J. Woodson
Carter J. Woodson
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award in a leading role?
a. Halle Berry
b. Denzel Washington
c. Sidney Poitier
Who is Sidney Poitier
Who invented peanut butter
Who is George Washington Carver
Who is known as the fastest man in the world?
A) Michael Jordan
B) Usain Bolt
C) Will Smith
Usain Bolt
Action of using campaigning to bring about political or social change.
Who was the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court
A) Clarence Thomas
B) Thurgood Marshall
C) Colin Powell
Thurgood Marshall
True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation gave African Americans the right to vote?
A) True
B) False
False. It was an executive order by the president Abraham Lincoln to free the slaves.
Who invented the horse shoe?
Who is Oscar E. Brown
Who was the star of Black Panther?
A) Chadwick Boseman
B) Denzel Washington
C) Samuel L. Jackson
Chadwick Boseman
What is emancipation?
Process of being set free from legal restrictions.
Who 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?
A) Martin Luther King, Jr.
B) Malcolm X
C) Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks
What was the name for his most famous speech?
A) "I Have a Dream"
B) "The Million Man March"
C) "Make America Hate Again"
"I Have a Dream"
Who invented the letter box
Who is G.E. Becket
Who was the first African American actress to win an Academy Award for best actress?
A) Angela Bassett
B) Halle Berry
C) Whoopi Goldberg
Halle Berry
What is justice?
Just behavior or treament.
Who was the first African American to travel into space?
A) Guion Stewart Bluford
B) Neil Armstrong
C) Kanye
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
Who was the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer for the American Ballet?
Misty Copeland
The act of segregating, separation or isolation of race, class, or ethnic group by enforced.