Black History Month I
Black History Month II
Black Inventors
Black History Month Entertainers
Vocabulary
Sports
100

Who was the first black child to desegregate an elementary school in Louisiana?

Ruby Bridges

100

What was the name of the African American woman who helped hundreds of slaves in the southern United States escape to freedom?

Who is: Harriet Tubman

100

What black inventor invented the potato chip?

  • a) Alexander Miles
  • b) Kenneth J. Dunkley
  • c) George Crum
  • d) Javarey D. Catey

Who is C: George Crum

100

Who is known as the King of Pop? 

Who is: Michael Jackson

100

What does achievement mean? 

WHAT IS: Something done successfully with effort, courage and skill

100

Who is the first African American Olympian to win the All-Around Title in gymnastics?

Who is Gabby Douglas

200

Who started Black History Month?

WHO IS: Carter J. Woodson

200

In what year did George Crum invent the potato chip?

What is: 

1853

200

What black inventor invented peanut butter?

  • a) Robert C. James
  • b) Kenneth J. Dunkley
  • c) Ronald S. Hugley
  • d) George Washington Carver

Who is: George Washington Carver

200

What popular animated Disney movie takes place in the African Savanna?

The Lion King

200

What is activism? 

WHAT IS: Action of using campaigning to bring about political or social change.

200

Who is the fastest man in the world? 

Who is Usain Bolt

300

What Haitian American Artist graffiti tag was “SAMO”?

WHO IS: Jean Michele Basquiat

300

Where was Shirley Chisholm born 

WHAT IS: Brooklyn, New York

300

Who is best known for his invention of 3D glasses?

  • a) Robert C. James
  • b) Kenneth J. Dunkley
  • c) Ronald S. Hugley
  • d) Javarey D. Catey

Who is Kenneth J. Dunkley. He is known as the leading man in the filed of holography and discovered you could create a unique 3D visual effect by blocking off 2 points in a human's peripheral vision. He patented the design in 1986.

300

Who was the star in the movie Black Panther?

WHO IS: Chadwick Boseman

300

What is emancipation?

WHAT IS: The process of being set free from legal restrictions.

300

Who was the first Black Major League Baseball player?

Who is Jackie Robinson.

400

Who triggered a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus system in 1955 by refusing to give up their seat to a white passenger on a bus?

WHO IS: Rosa Parks

400

What was the name of MLK's most famous speech?

WHAT IS: "I Have A Dream"

400

What black inventor invented the letterbox?

  • a) Robert C. James
  • b) G.E. Becket
  • c) Ronald S. Hugley
  • d) Javarey D. Catey

Who is G.E. Becket


400

Who was the first African American actress to win an Academy Award for best actress?

WHO IS: Halle Berry

400

What is justice? 

WHAT IS: Just behavior or treatment.

400

Who was the first Black quarterback to lead his team to a Super Bowl championship ? 

Who is Doug Williams.

500

what was Carter G Woodson's organization called before "BLACK HISTORY MONTH" 

WHAT IS: 

NEGRO HISTORY AND LITERATURE WEEK

500

Interracial marriage was illegal in the US until what year?

What is: 1967  That is only 54 years ago!  The ruling to abolish the law was largely in part of Mildred and Richard Loving who were a biracial couple who were arrested in Virginia for secretly marrying after finding out they were pregnant.

500

What black inventor invented the traffic signal?

  • a) Robert C. James
  • b) Kenneth J. Dunkley
  • c) Garret Morgan
  • d) George Washington Carver

Who is Garret Morgan

500

The first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer for the American Ballet? 

WHO IS:Misty Copeland

500

What is segregation? 

WHAT IS: The act of segregating, separation or isolation of race, class, or ethnic group by enforcement. 

500

What professional boxer was originally named in honor of a white abolitionist? 

WHO IS: Muhammed Ali. 

The fighter, like his father, was named for Cassius Marcellus Clay, a 19th-century farmer and anti-slavery crusader who emancipated the 40 slaves he inherited from his father. The abolitionist, a second cousin of Kentucky Senator Henry Clay, edited an anti-slavery newspaper, commanded troops in the Mexican-American War and served as minister to Russia under President Abraham Lincoln. In defying Southern conventions of the time, Clay faced more than death threats. He was beaten, stabbed and shot by political opponents but lived to the age of 92.