True or False
Black History Month started as a week
What is True?
Context: Negro History Week established in 1926.
First black president of the United States
Who is Barack Obama?
This woman refused to give up her seat on the bus sparking the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 - 1956
Who is Rosa Parks?
A current senior member who runs the store
Who is Mark or Wilbert?
Black History Month is only celebrated in the U.S
What is False?
Black history month takes place in October throughout the Netherlands, Ireland, and the U.K. Takes place also in February in Canada.
His birthday is a national holiday in January
Who is MLK Jr ?
Context: Celebrated on Jan 16.
First black American women to be a self-made billionaire
Who is Madam C.J walker?
Context: She invented the world's first hair straightening formula.
Who is Gabby?
Plessy v. Ferguson establish the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is True?
An American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era
Who is Jackie Robinson?
The first black woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress
Who is Halle Berry?
Context: Halle Berry made history in 2002 when she became the first African American to win the best actress Oscar for her role in “Monster’s Ball.”
A member of the Isaiah House Staff
Who is Felecia, Sierra, Orlyn or Lilly, Deyssy, or Gabby?
The 14th amendment abolished slavery in the United States
Context: It was the 13th Amendment.
Abolitionist, born into slavery wrote My Bondage and My Freedom?
Nasa's first black female engineer
Who is Mary Jackson?
Context: In 1958, Mary Jackson became the first black female engineer at NASA.
The year Isaiah House was founded
February honors Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick Douglass
What is True?
Context: Historian Carter G. Woodson selected February as black history month in honor of Fredrick and Abraham's birth dates. Fredrick for his work in as an abolitionist & Abraham for the Emancipation Proclamation.
First Black U.S Surgeon General
Who is Joycelyn Elders?
Context: She served as Surgeon General of the United States from 1993 to 1994