BLACK HISTORY
What is the name of the first black firefighter?
Who is Molly Brown.
Which African American was the first to complete the first successful open heart surgery and started an integrated hospital that also trained minority doctors and nurses?
Who is Daniel Hale Williams?
What grade was Ruby Bridges in when she attended the formerly all-white William Franz school?.
What is six years old and in the first grade is also acceptable?
Who learned to read by trading children bread for words and learned to write by tricking them into contests to spell the most words?
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Who was the first black student to attend a formerly white school in New Orleans, Louisiana?
Who is Ruby Bridges?
This is the team Jackie Robinson played for.
What is the Brooklyn Dodgers?
Who was the first African/ Native American female pilot?
Who was Bessie Coleman?
Who is the doctor that became the first African American to be admitted into NASA’s astronaut training program and on September 12, 1992, finally flew into space with six other astronauts aboard the Endeavor on mission STS47?
Who is Mae Jemison?
The first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. He broke the color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947?
Who is Jackie Robinson?
Who became known as 'Honorary firefighter #11' by the Oceanus Engine Company #11 in New York in 1918.?
Who is Molly Brown?
The Black writer who was a college professor.
Who is W.E.B Dubuis?
Which singer became known as the "First Lady of Jazz" and did a singing style called scat?
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
What famous spokesperson for Civil rights mailed himself in a crate from Virginia to Pennsylvania in 1949?
Who is Henry 'Box' Brown?
Who was an Affrican American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991 and won the famous case, 'Brown vs the Board of Education'?
Who is Thurgood Marshall ?
Who was the Man who started Black History Month in 1976?
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
The youngest person to be a representation for civil rights?
Who is Ruby Bridges?
Who was a famous writer, poet, columnist and novelist who also started the 'Harlem Renaissance'?
Who is Langston Hughes?
What was called 'Satchmo, Satch and Pops', was a legendary singer and trumpeter of jazz music.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Who was a former slave, conductor on the underground railroad, a spy during the civil war and was known by the codename 'Moses'?
What is Harriet Tubman?
This woman refused to give her seat to a Caucasian man and became known as the 'mother' of the civil rights movement?
Who is Rosa Parks?
What person started a school that taught freed slaves to be business owners and teachers?
Who is Booker T. Washington
The minister, spokesperson for the civil rights movement and also referred to as its 'father'?
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ?
Who lived formerly in a foster home and went on to be the greatest gymnast of all time?
Who is Simone Biles?
Who wrote "Aint I A Woman" and won a case against a white man for custody of her young son?
Who is Sojourner Truth?