Black History Basics
What month is Black History Month celebrated in the U.S.?
What is February?
What famous speech did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. give in 1963?
What is “I Have a Dream”?
What sport did Jackie Robinson break the color barrier in?
What is baseball?
Who wrote the book “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”?
Who is Frederick Douglass?
What college network is known as HBCUs?
What are Historically Black Colleges and Universities?
Who was the first African American President of the United States?
Who is Barack Obama?
Who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama?
Who is Rosa Parks?
Who was the first African American woman to travel to space?
Who is Mae Jemison?
What singer is known as the “Queen of Soul”?
Who is Aretha Franklin?
What was the name of the secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom?
What is the Underground Railroad?
What movement fought to end segregation and discrimination in the 1950s–60s?
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
Who was known as “The Moses of Her People”?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
What famous poet wrote “Still I Rise”?
Who is Maya Angelou?
What invention did Garrett Morgan create to improve traffic safety?
What is the traffic signal?
Who is known as the “Father of Black History”?
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
Who was the youngest person to give a speech at the March on Washington?
Who is John Lewis?
Who was the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal?
Who is Alice Coachman?
What city is known as the birthplace of Hip Hop?
What is New York City ?
Who founded Tuskegee Institute?
Who is Booker T. Washington?