Black History Month Inventors
Who created the elevator?
A. Ellis Vator
B. Lewis Howard Latimer
C. Alexander Miles
Who is Alexander Miles
This man was awarded the Navy Cross for actions during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor
Who is Doris Miller.
This basketball player played for the Chicago Bulls and won finals MVP 6 times.
Who is Michael Jordan?
The month Black History Month is celebrated.
What is February?
This man is known as the "King of Pop."
Who is Michael Jackson?
Who invented peanut butter?
A. George Washington Carver
B. Henry Blaire
C. Kanye West
Who is George Washington Carver
He was the first African American Admiral in the Navy
Vice Adm. Samuel Lee Gravy Jr.
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?
True or False: Each year there is a different theme for Black History Month.
True. This year the theme is Black Resistance.
This female singer was the first to win 5 Grammy awards in one year.
Who is Lauryn Hill?
Why use your hand to scoop ice cream. When this inventor created the scooper to make life easier.
Who is Alfred L Cralle
More than 20,000 African Americans trained in segregated facilities between 1942 and 1949 at Montford Point, NC, and became the first African Americans to serve in the United States Marine Corps.
What is the Montford Point Marines
This female tennis player is known as the GOAT.
Who is Serena Williams?
Why is Black History Month celebrated?
What is the time to honor the struggles and the contributions of African Americans in U.S. history and society?
This Marvel movie made 800 million making it the sixth-highest grossing movie of 2022.
What is Wakanda Forever?
You can thank the man who invented the traffic signal, so we can avoid accidents and an increase in your insurance.
Who is Garret Morgan
In March 2003, she flew with HMLA-169 during the invasion of Iraq, becoming America's first Black female combat pilot. She completed two combat tours in the Gulf.
Who is Vernice Armour.
This famous boxer was formerly known as Cassius X.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
These are the colors that represent Black History Month.
What is red, green, black and yellow?
This artists sold 1.5 million copies of her album Lemonade in 2016. In addition, they have the same birthday as HM3 Moua. Hint: 04Sep1997
Who is Beyonce?
This woman created the ironing board because she know Sailors would not be able to, or forget to take their dress uniforms to the dry cleaners.
Who is Sarah Boone.
During World War I, this infantry fought at Chateau-Thierry and Belleau Wood, with a total of 191 days in combat -- longer than any other American unit in the war.
Who is the Harlem Hellfighters
This basketball star was the first Black NBA coach to also play on the team. He also marched with MLK and stood up for Muhammad Ali as well as winning the 2011 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Who is Bill Russell?
The father of Black History Month.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
These cultural traditions and art forms with strong roots in African culture were first introduced to Greek life in the early 1900s by Alpha Kappa Alpha and the Divine 9.
What are stepping and strolling?