Black History Month Women
This woman refused to give her seat to a white man.
Who is Rosa Parks?
He was the first black President.
Who is Barack Obama?
Who was the first African-American to win the masters golf tournament?
Tiger Woods
This is an annual celebration of the Black heroes in history.
What is Black History Month?
Who Is the first female African-American Billionaire?
Oprah Winfrey
Who is Serena Williams?
African American female tennis player
Who is the first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, as well as the country's first black head of state?
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This famous African American won 4 medals in the Berlin Olympics?
Who is Jesse Owens?
Who started Black History Month in 1976?
Carter G. Woodson
laws created a system of legal segregation is called what?
Jim Crow Laws
Who helped 300 slaves escape to freedom?
Harriet Tubman
Who is the first African American to play a major sport. When this player joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, baseball was segregated.
who is Jackie Robinson?
Who is named the King of Pop?
Michael Jackson
These are the colors that represent Black History Month.
What is red, green, black and yellow.
Discrimination against African Americans continued after Reconstruction is called
Segregation
As a 6-year-old, I entered an all-white school.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
Who was Malcolm X?
Malcolm X was an African American leader in the civil rights movement, minister and supporter of Black nationalism.
What is Rogers Nelson's stage name?
Prince
This is the month of Black History Month?
What is February?
Who was the first African-American U.S. attorney general?
Eric Holder
In 1993 this pediatrician became the first woman and the first African American to be named the U.S. Surgeon General.
Dr. Joycelyn Elders
He played for the Los Angeles Lakers for 12 years, until he retired in 1991 due to his HIV diagnosis.
Magic Johnson
Who was the first African-American president of an Ivy League institution?
Dr. Ruth Simmons
Who wrote the poem "Still I Rise"?
Maya Angelou
Believed equality could be gained by fighting for civil rights.
Helped found the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Who believed this?
W.E.B. DuBois