Important Figures
This person made history as the first African-American to recite a poem at the inauguration.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
This African American mathematician calculated and analyzed the flight paths of many space crafts.
Katherine Johnson
Barack Obama was elected President of the US on this date.
November 4, 2008 (Do NOT accept partial answers.)
This person said: “I have a dream…” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Dr. MLK Jr.
He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers (Los Angeles Dodgers now), and is the first African American to play America’s pastime sport
Jackie Robinson
She made history for refusing to leave her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
Rosa Parks
He won the Nobel Peace prize in 2009 “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”.
Barack Obama
Assasination date of MLK Jr.
April 4th 1968 (Do NOT accept partial answers.)
This person said, “We did it, Joe.”
Kamala Harris
Harriet Tubman’s name given at birth.
Araminta “Minty” Ross (Nickname is optional)
She was an abolitionist and a “conductor” of the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
Mae Jemison accomplished this “first” in 1992.
The first African American woman in space.
Coretta Scott King gave her first freedom speech in New York on this date.
November 1964 (Accept 1964; do NOT accept other partial answers)
Who wrote: “I know why the caged bird sings” in 1969
Maya Angelou
Name two types of pitches Jackie Robinson named.
Accept two: midnight creeper, troublemaker, drooper
He was an abolitionist and was instrumental in stopping slavery.
Frederick Douglass
Shirley Ann Jackson is known for…
First African American to graduate and get a doctorate degree at MIT
When did Rosa Parks die?
October 24, 2005
“I just knew that if I got past that crowd… then it was a short walk into the classroom.”
Ruby Bridges
Shirley Ann Jackson studied this as an undergraduate.
Condensed matter theory
The first African-American NASA scientist involved in multiple missions.
Katherine Johnson
Charles McGee was a part of which major group in a world war
Tuskegee Airmen
The year that George Washington Carver traveled to Washington D.C. to convince congress to put a tax on peanuts.
What is 1922
“We are far from polished, far from pristine, but that doesn’t mean we are striving to form a union that isn’t perfect”.
Amanda Gorman
This person lived in the Great Depression as part of a family of 7. They never liked learning and quit school to take part in more dynamic activities.
Althea Gibson