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 I Promise School.
Who is LeBron James?
She is a well-known 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.
Who is Beyoncé?
Who believed equality could be achieved by temporarily accepting social segregation (equal rights a little at a time).
Who is Booker T. Washington?
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?
Who believed equality could be gained by fighting for civil rights -- right now. He Founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
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.
Who is Jesse Owens?
She was born on February 20th, 1988, and is a well-known singer for pop, rhythm-and-blue.
Who is Rihanna?
What year did Tyler Perry launch his television studio?
What is 2006?
She broke barriers and became the first black woman to earn a pilot's license. In 1922, she became the first African American woman 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?
Who was the First African American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress?
Who is Halle Berry?
She became the U.S. Attorney General in 2015 underneath President Barack Obama.
Who is Loretta Lynch?
He was the co-founder and chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He led and helped organize many of the seminal moments in the Civil Rights movement, including the Freedom Riders, 1963 March on Washington, and Selma to Montgomery Marchers.
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 U.S. Attorney General?
Who is Eric Holder?
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?
Who is Langston Hughes?
Aretha Franklin acted in only one movie, What is the name of that movie?
What is The Blues Brothers?
She was the first African American woman to serve as a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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 an 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?
This movie starred Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx and Brie Larson
What is Just Mercy?
In 1991 she served as an assistant commissioner of planning and developing in Chicago city hall.
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 and, 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?
What famous novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe depicted the harsh realities of slavery and became one of the most influential anti-slavery works in the 19th century?
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
In 1993 this pediatrician became the first African American woman 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.
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?
This is the first Hip Hop song
What is Rappers Delight by Sugar Hill Gang?