Black History Month Females
She was the first African American 6 year old child to attend an only white school and is a life long activist for racial equality.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
He delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 and is known for his contributions to the civil rights movement.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Who is the team Jackie Robinson played for?
What are the Brooklyn Dodgers?
This is the month of Black History Month?
What is February?
What do the four colors that represent Black History Month mean/stand for?
What is black: resilience
Red: blood shed through history
Yellow: optimism, justice, and equality
Green: rich greenery
This woman refused to give her seat up on the bus to a white man, was a American activist in the civil rights movement and is best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
He was the first African American male President.
Who is Barack Obama?
He competed in 10 NBA finals and has 4 NBA championships? He was born and raised in Akron OH and started the IPromise school.
Hint: his current team colors are yellow and purple
Who is LeBron James?
She is a well known for American singer-songwriter and actress who achieved fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the R&B group Destiny's Child and then launched a huge solo career. She won a record-setting 32 Grammy Awards and just released the song Texas hold 'em.
Who is Beyoncé?
Who helped 300 slaves escape to freedom?
Harriet Tubman
He was the first African American to play a major sport. When this player joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, baseball was segregated.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
He made all 11 NBA teams, won 5 MVPs, 6 final MVPs, and 6 NBA titles. He is well known for his jersey number 23.
Who is Michael Jordan
These are the colors that represent Black History Month.
What are red, green, black and yellow?
This tennis player won, four Olympic gold medals, with a singles win in 2012 and three doubles gold medals in 2000, 2008, and 2012.
Who is Serena Williams?
He was the first President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999 and was elected in a fully representative democratic election, as well as the country's first black head of state?
Who is Nelson Mandela?
He is a well known track and field athlete and won 4 gold medals in the Berlin Olympics.
FUN FACT: He set a world record on May 25th, 1935 for 100 meter dash of 10.02 seconds.
Who is Jesse Owens?
She was born on February 20th, 1988 is a known singer for pop, rhythm-and-blue?
HINT: She performed at the 2023 super bowl half-time show and her fans are always asking when is releasing new music.
Who is Rihanna?
She broke barriers and became the first black women to earn a pilot's license. In 1922, she became the first African American women to make a public flight. Her famous stunts included; making loop the loop, and making the #8 shape and the airplane.
Who is Bessie Coleman?
He was an African American leader in the civil rights movement, minister and supporter of Black nationalism
Who is Malcolm X?
He served as a world ambassador for reggae music and sold more than 20 million records throughout his career?
HINT: he is well-known for the song: Don't Worry About A Thing
Who is Bob Marley?
Who wrote the poem "Still I Rise"?
Who is Maya Angelou?
She became the U.S. Attorney General in 2015 underneath President Barack Obama.
Who is Loretta Lynch?
FAMOUS QUOTE: Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.
Who is John Lewis?
Who is named the King of Pop?
Who is Michael Jackson
Who was the first African American pilot to fly solo around the world?
Who is Barrington Irving Jr.?
Who was the first African-American president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences?
Who is Cheryl Boone
He was an American inventor, businessman, and community leader. He is well known for his invention of the three-way traffic light
Who is Garrett Morgan?
Who was the first African-American to win the masters golf tournament?
Who is Tiger Woods?
Who was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and a great poet, activist, novelist and playwright?
HINT: Wrote, Let America be America Again
Who is Langston Hughes?
She was the first African American women to serve as a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Hint year 2022
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson
Though Thomas Edison is recognized as the inventor of the light bulb, this African-American inventor played an important role in it's development/creation of the light bulb and is also known for inventing the telephone.
Who is Lewis Howard Latimer?
She is a American singer and actress and was the lead singer of the Supremes and later became a successful solo singer.
Who is Diana Ross
Who was the first African-American to graduate from Harvard?
Who is Richard Theodore Greener?
In 1991 she served as an assistant commissioner of planning and developing in Chicago city hall?
Hint she is married the 44th president.
Who is Michelle Obama
Who was referred to as the "Godfather of Soul" and the "Hardest-working man is show business.
Who is James Brown
She was born in Little Rock Arkansas. She won first prize in the Wanamaker Competition with her Symphony in E minor, as a result became the first African American female composer
Who is Florence Beatrice Prince
Who started Black History Month in 1976?
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
In 1993 this pediatrician became the first African American women to be named the U.S. Surgeon General.
Who is Dr. Joycelyn Elders
Who was the first African American to play a game in the NBA.
Who is Earl Francis Lloyd
In 2016, she was the first African American women swimmer to win an individual Olympic gold medal.
HINT: She won 100 meter freestyle and the 4x100 freestyle relay.
Who is Simone Manuel
Who was one of the first African-American women to appear on the cover of Seventeen magazine?
Who is Joyce Wilford?