Influential Figures 1
Which famous tennis duo, born and raised in Compton, went on to win several Wimbledon cups together and individually?
Who are the Williams sisters?
This man had a dream that all people will be equal.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This is the team Jackie Robinson played for.
What is the Brooklyn Dodgers?
This is the month of Black History Month?
What is February?
Who was the first black woman elected to Congress
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This woman refused to give her seat to a white man.
Who is Rosa Parks?
He was the first black President.
Who is Barack Obama?
Which famous track-and-field athlete set a world record in the 1963 Olympic Games in Berlin and went unrivaled for 25 years?
Who is Jesse Owens?
Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States?
What is the 13th Amendment?
Before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, there was a brave 15-year-old who chose not to sit at the back of the bus.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
Who helped 300 slaves escape to freedom?
Harriet Tubman
Who was the first black president of the United States Olympic Committee?
who is Dr. LeRoy T. Walker?
She became the first African American woman from any country to win an Olympic Gold Medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
Who is Alice Coachman?
These are the colors that represent Black History Month.
What is red, green, black and yellow.
Who was the first African American to star in her own TV show?
Who was the first licensed Black pilot in the world?
Who is Bessie Coleman?
Who is the first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, as well as the country's first black head of state?
Who is Nelson Mandela?
Who was the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field - in the 1960 Olympics for the 100 and 200 meters and the 400 meter relay?
Who is Wilma Glodean Rudolph ?
Who started Black History Month?
Carter G. Woodson
Who held an influential role in drag and queer culture and took part in the resistance at Stonewall?
Who is Marsha P. Johnson?
A former slave, became an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women's rights in the nineteenth century.
who is Sojourner Truth?
Who was a African American leader in the civil rights movement, minister and supporter of Black nationalism?
Who was Malcolm X?
Who was the first black person to play football?
who is Fritz Pollard?
What year did Congress pass Public Law 99-244, which designated February as "National Black (Afro-American) History Month?
What is 1986?
Dr. King is usually credited for the March on Washington in August 1963 but this man organized and strategized in the shadows.
Who is Bayard Rustin?