Important Events in Black History
Black Inventors
Black Athletes
Civil Rights Movement
Black Activists
100

Which black basketball player has won four championships and has scored over 40,000 points in their career.

LeBron James!

100
What was the mass boycott of buses in the south, that started with Rosa Parks refusing to sit in the back of a bus?

The Montgomery Bus Boycott!

100

Which famous black activist wrote and delivered their “I Have a Dream“ speech?

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.!

200

Who was the first black person to ever play in the MLB?

Jackie Robinson!

200

What was the monumental march lead by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?

The March on Washington!

200

Which black was the first black president, and stayed in office for two terms?

Barrack Obama!

300

Which famous black tennis-star sisters have the record amount of tennis Grand Slams?

Venus and Serena Williams?

400

Which black inventor invented peanut butter?

George Washington Carver!

400

What was the group of nine young black individuals enrolled in an all white school?

The Little Rock Nine!

400

Who was the first black person to run for president?

Shirley Chisholm!

500

Which important cultural revolution in black history occurred in the 1920’s?

The Harlem Renaissance!

500

What was the chain of lawsuits across the US that gradually desegregated public schools?

Brown vs. Board of education!

500

Who is the youngest poet and activist ever to speak at a presidential inauguration?

Amanda Gorman!