Black History Month Women
As a 6-year-old, I entered an all-white school.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
This man was the first Black president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
This basketball player is known as “King James.”
Who is LeBron James?
This is the month of Black History Month.
What is February?
A network of secret routes used by enslaved African Americans to escape into free states.
What is The Underground Railroad?
Who is Halle Bailey?
He gave the famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
These two women are widely regarded as the greatest pair of tennis playing sisters.
Venus and Serena Williams
This word means treating people unfairly because of their race.
What is discrimination?
Blind at the age of brith, this person auditioned for Motown Records.
Who is Stevie Wonder?
Who is considered the Queen of Soul?
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This actor voices Miles Morales in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
Who is Shameik Moore?
This man is said to be the fastest man alive
Usain Bolt
These are the colors that represent Black History Month.
What is red, green, black and yellow?
This superhero is the king of Wakanda.
Who is Black Panther?
She helped launch the first use of digital electronic computers at NASA.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
He was a boxer known as “The Greatest.”
Who is Muhammad Ali?
Who is the first African American to play a major sport. When this player joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, baseball was segregated.
Jackie Robinson
This movement fought for equal rights during the 1950s and 1960s.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This famous comedian is the voice of Donkey in Shrek.
Who is Eddie Murphy?
This person won 3 Grammys for spoken-word poetry about their hardships and upbringing.
Who is Maya Angelou?
This person arrived on the stage at age 6, and is known as the King of Pop.
Who is Michael Jackson?
Gymnastic legend, who won 14 World Gymnastics medals, (most in U.S. history), won five gold medals at the World Championships in 2019 and broke the record of 25 medals by any male or female gymnast.
Simone Biles
This holiday celebrates the end of slavery in the United States.
What is Juneteenth?
He was a jazz and blues pioneer, famous for playing the trumpet and influencing generations of musicians.
Who is Miles Davis?