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What month is considered Black History Month?

February

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What was the name of the African American woman who helped hundreds of slaves in the southern United States escape to freedom?

Who is Harriet Tubman

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Who invented the elevator? 

Who is Alexander Miles

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Who was the first African American Olympian to win the all-around title in gymnastics? 

Gabby Douglas

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Where is the birthplace of Jazz 

New Orleans 

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Who started Black History Month?

Carter J. Woodson

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What was the name for his most famous speech?


" I Have A Dream" Speech


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Who invented peanut butter?

Who is George Washington Carver

200

Who is known as the fastest man in the world?

Usain Bolt

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This famous Jazz singer and scatter was known as the lady of song and also performed duets with Duke Ellington and Luis Armstrong. 

Who is Ella Fitzgerald

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Who was the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court?

Thurgood Marshall

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Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award in a leading role?

Who is Sidney Poitier


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This woman was the first self-made millionaire and she invented her own hair care line. 

Madame C. J. Walker 

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Who was the star of Black Panther?

Chadwick Boseman

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This King of Pop told you to change the world by starting with the man in the mirror. 

Michael Jackson 

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Who triggered a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus system in 1955 by refusing to give up their seat to a white passenger on a bus?


Rosa Parks

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True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation gave African Americans the right to vote?

False. It was an executive order by President Abraham Lincoln to free the slaves.

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This African American man invented the pencil sharpener. 

John Lee Love 


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Who was the first African American actress to win an Academy Award for best actress?

Halle Berry

400

This important element of Jazz and what makes Jazz the music of freedom means to make up your own part. 

What is improvisation. 

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Who was the first African American to travel into space?

Guion Stewart Bluford 



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Citizens enslaved in this state were last to be notified of their freedom. 

What is Texas

500

Who invented the traffic signal?

Who is Garret Morgan

500

Who was the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer for the American Ballet? 

Misty Copeland

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This anthem was first written as a poem by John Rosamond Johnson and later put to music by his brother James Weldon Johnson. 

What is Lift Every Voice and Sing.