Women of Note
As a 6-year-old, I entered an all-white school.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
This man delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This was Disney Channel’s first original animated series about the life of a young Black girl, 14-year-old Penny Proud.
What is The Proud Family?
This is the month of Black History Month?
What is February?
This woman is called "the mother of the civil rights movement". They are known for refusing to give up their bus seat which launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Who was the first black male President.
Who is Barack Obama?
Who is LeBron James?
What National holiday is celebrated during Black History Month?
What is President's Day?
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?
This is Michael Jordan's basketball jeresy number?
What is 23?
These are the colors that represent Black History Month.
What are red, green, black and yellow?
Who is the African American female tennis player who 23 Grand Slams women's single.
Who is Serena Williams?
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 gold medals in the Berlin Olympics?
Who is Jesse Owens?
Who started Black History Month in 1976?
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
She was the first African-American woman to become a self-made millionaire.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
Who 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?
Who is Bob Marley?
This person was the "most photographed" American in the 1800's. According to the NPCA, they purposely sat for photos often, as he wanted to spread a more accurate image of African Americans at the time; he also intentionally kept a straight face in photos, to challenge the idea that Black people were ever happy to be enslaved.
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
On April 27, 2015, who became the first African American women to be a U.S Attorney General?
Who is Loretta Lynch?
What are the names of Barack Obama's two daughters?
Who are Malia and Sasha Obama?
Name three members of the N.W.A.?
Who is Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, DJ Yella, MC Ren, The D.O.C., Arabian Prince, DJ Speed
Who was the first African American pilot to fly solo around the world?
Who is Barrington Irving Jr.?
Which cartoon character was based on Esther Jones, a Harlem-based jazz singer? Jones was known for her use of “boops” in her singing which was called a child-like scat.
Who is Betty Boop?
Who is the inventor of the 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?
Who was the African American mathematician who helped calculate space trajectories and worked for NASA from 1953 until 1986? They are also known as the "human computer".
Katherine Johnson
Though Thomas Edison is recognized as the inventor of the light bulb, Which African-America inventor played an important role in it's development.
Who is Lewis Howard Latimer?
He was the first black musician to take home the Grammy for Album of the Year.
Who is Stevie Wonder?
Who was the first African-American to graduate from Harvard?
Who is Richard Theodore Greener?
This person was a Pulitzer prize-nominated poet and civil rights activist. Her first autobiography is titled "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".
Who is Maya Angelou?
Who was referred to as the "Godfather of Soul" and the "Hardest-working man is show business.
Who is James Brown
Who is named the King of Pop?
Who is Michael Jackson?
What was the first colony to outright ban slavery in 1777?
What is Vermont?
In 1993 this pediatrician became the first woman and the first African American 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
What is Rogers Nelson's stage name?
Who is Prince?
On this day, federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. Many people don't know that this occurred 2 years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. It is the longest-running African American holiday.
What is Juneteenth?