Black History Month Females
As a 6-year-old, I entered an ALL-white school. Who Exactly?
Ruby Bridges
Barack Obama served as the _______ president?
44th
What does NAACP stand for?
National Advancement Association of Colored People.
Which team did Jackie Robinson play for?
Brooklyn Dodgers.
Malcom X
This woman refused to give up her seat to a white woman.
Rosa Parks.
Who was the first black president of South Africa?
Nelson Mandela
When did Black History Month originate?
Black History Month was first proposed by black educators and the Black United Students at Kent State University in February 1969.
This is the first African American in the major Leagues.
Jackie Robinson
She founded her own company, selling her products door-to-door and training other Black women as agents, earning the name....
Madam C.J Walker
She was the first black woman in space.
Mae C. Jemison
A 14-year-old African-American was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him in her family's grocery store.
Emmett Till.
What is Black History Month?
This is an annual celebration of the Black heroes in history.
First African American Baseball Player
Moses Fleetwood Walker
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
The story with Katherine Johnson who worked for NASA and was very good in math. HINT: A MOVIE.
This African American man mailed himself in a box from Virginia to Pennsylvania.
Henry Box Brown.
When did NAACP play a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement?
1950s & 1960s (I'll take either or).
First Black Professional Soccer Player
Arthur Walton
Who invented Peanut Butter?
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
Harriet Tubman
"IF YOU CAN'T FLY, THEN RUN IF YOU CAN RUN, THEN WALK, IF YOU CAN'T WALK THEN CRAWL. BUT BY ALL MEANS, KEEP MOVING... Said by who?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Who started Black History Month?
Carter G. Woodson.
First Black Heavyweight Boxing Champion:
Jack Johsnon
The Three-Light Traffic Signal, Invented by
Garrett Morgan in 1923