Famous People
This athlete played on the Brooklyn Dodgers and made history by being the first African American baseball player in the Major League.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This woman is the first African American First Lady.
Who is Michelle Obama?
This war between the North and the South changed American history forever.
What is the Civil War?
This singer from Detroit defined the golden age of soul music and is known for her hit “Respect (R-E-S-P-E-C-T).” 1. Etta James. 2. Whitney Houston 3. Aretha Franklin
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This movie focused on the three unsung African American mathematicians whose efforts ensured John Glenn’s launch into space.
What is Hidden Figures?
This female multi-billionaire aired a show for 25 seasons, is a philanthropist, and now has her own network, OWN.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
This man marshalled his ambitions to become the first African American justice on the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Black History Month is celebrated this month because these two historical figures had birthdays in February.
Who are Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass?
This artist has the most Grammy Award nominations of all time. 1. Beyoncé 2. Mr. Mizuki 3. Aretha Franklin
Who is Beyoncé?
This action film is the first in the universe to have a Black lead actor— Chadwick Boseman.
What is Black Panther?
An entrepreneur and a connoisseur of hair products for Black women, she was the first female Self-Made millionaire in America.
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
Claudette Colvin, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Coretta Scott King were all impactful women in this social movement.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This march in 1963 gave a lot of people dreams and a chance to reflect on their lives and the monuments around them.
What is the March on Washington?
This country, in addition to the Netherlands, celebrates Black History Month in October (for 31 days). 1. Japan 2. The UK 3. Chile
What is the UK?
This book is about a family from Michigan who are headed to Birmingham, Alabama, “toward one of the darkest moments in America’s history.”
What is The Watsons Go to Birmingham— 1963?
This song artist started young in a group of 5 and made every day a thriller while performing.
Who is Michael Jackson?
This proclamation and executive order issued by the 16th president declared that all enslaved people would henceforth be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
On December 5, 1955, this year-long Civil Rights movement began, changing transportation laws and, as a bonus, reducing carbon footprints.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This activist was the first Afican American woman to be elected to Congress. 1. Michelle Obama 2. Maxine Waters 3. Shirley Chisholm
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This television show is the original “ish”.
What is Black-Ish?
To tell the truth, this woman escaped enslavement, became an abolitionist and women’s rights activist, and wrote the “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
In this Supreme Court case involving Oliver and Linda Brown, segregation in public schools was deemed unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
During this fight in Boston, an African American man named Crispus Attucks was the first to be killed by a British soldier.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This part of the Constitution stated that enslaved people could only be counted as a fraction of a white man. 1. The One-Tenths Arm Law 2. The Three-Fifths Clause 3. The Decimal Declaration
What was The Three-Fifths Clause?
This Newbery Award-winning graphic novel shines a light on being African American in an elite private school.
What is New Kid?