Black History Month Women
As a 6-year-old, who entered an all-white school.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
This man had a dream that all people will be equal.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Truth Hurts was the first major single by which artist?
Lizzo
This is the month of Black History Month?
What is February?
In the wake of the assassination of Black nationalist Malcolm X, a political organization founded in 1966, dressed in black berets and black leather jackets.
The Black Panthers, also known as the Black Panther Party
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?
This is the first African American in the major Leagues?
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This is an annual celebration of the Black heroes in history.
What is Black History Month?
Believed equality could be achieved by temporarily accepting social segregation (equal rights a little at a time). Who believed this?
Booker T. Washington
Who helped 300 slaves escape to freedom?
Harriet Tubman
Who is 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?
In 1956, the first African American woman to win a Grand Slam title (French Championships)
Althea Gibson
These are the colors that represent Black History Month.
What is red, green, black and yellow.
Believed equality could be gained by fighting for civil rights -- right now.
Founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Who believed this?
W.E.B. DuBois
Which teen movie did Gabrielle Union get her breakthrough role in?
Bring It On
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?
This famous African American won 4 medals in the Berlin Olympics?
Who is Jesse Owens?
Who started Black History Month in 1976?
Carter G. Woodson
Laws created a system of legal segregation are called what?
Jim Crow Laws
She was only 12 when she became the first female African American author published?
who is Phillis Wheatley?
He was an adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. and the organizer behind the 1963 March on Washington. However, his homosexuality cost him visibility and was considered by some as a hindrance to the movement's success.
Bayard Rustin
This music artist has the most Grammy's of all time (32 total)
Beyonce
Who is the first Black vice president of the United States.
Kamala Harris
Discrimination against African Americans continued after Reconstruction is called
Segregation