Black History Month Females
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 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.?
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?
This is the month of Black History Month?
What is February?
This is the name of the network of routes, places, and people that helped enslaved people in the South escape to the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
She helped 300 slaves escape to freedom?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
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?
These are the colors that represent Black History Month.
What are red, green, black and yellow?
These two Historically Black Colleges and Universities are located in Baltimore, Maryland.
What is Coppin State University and Morgan State University?
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 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 was the first and only African American tennis player to ever win the U.S. Open championship. The main stadium court at the tournament is named after him.
Who is Arthur Ashe?
Who wrote the poem "Still I Rise?"
Who is Maya Angelou?
Thurgood Marshall is the first African American to serve in this government position.
What is a Supreme Court Justice?
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?
On March 7th, 1965 hundreds of people gathered in this city to march on the capital of Alabama to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote.
What is Selma, Alabama?
Who was the First African American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress?
Who is Halle Berry?
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, supporter of Black nationalism, and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam.
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 was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and a great poet, activist, novelist, and playwright?
Who is Langston Hughes?
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?