BHM Facts
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True or False :
Black Inventors Edition
Black Inventors Edition
Entertainers
Music
100
What month is considered Black History Month?
February
100
What was the name of the African American woman who helped hundreds of slaves in the southern United States escape to freedom?
Who is Harriet Tubman
100
True or False: the elevator was created by a black inventor.
TRUE.
Alexander Miles created the elevator.
100
Who was the first African American Olympian to win the all-around title in gymnastics?
Gabby Douglas
100
Where is the birthplace of Jazz
New Orleans
200
Who started Black History Month?
Carter J. Woodson
200
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award in a leading role?
Who is Sidney Poitier
200
True or False: An African American invented peanut butter.
TRUE!
George Washington Carver invented peanut butter
200
Who is known as the fastest man in the world?
Usain Bolt
200
This famous Jazz singer and scatter was known as the lady of song and also performed duets with Duke Ellington and Luis Armstrong.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald
300
Who was the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
300
True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation gave African Americans the right to vote?
False. It was an executive order by the president Abraham Lincoln to free the slaves.
300
True or False: An African American woman was the first self-made millionaire and she invented her own hair care line.
True! Her name is Madame C. J. Walker
300
Who was the star of Black Panther?
Chadwick Boseman
300
This King of Pop told you to change the world by starting with the man in the mirror.
Michael Jackson
400
Who triggered a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus system in 1955 by refusing to give up their seat to a white passenger on a bus?
Rosa Parks
400
What was the name for his most famous speech?
"I Have a Dream"
400
True or False: an African American man invented the pencil sharpener.
TRUE: his name is John Lee Love
400
Who was the first African American actress to win an Academy Award for best actress?
Halle Berry
400
This important element of Jazz and what makes Jazz the music of freedom means to make up your own part.
What is improvisation.
500
Who was the first African American president?
Barack Obama
500
Citizens enslaved in this state were last to be notified of their freedom.
What is Texas
500
True or false: an African American person invented traffic signal.
TRUE his name is Garret Morgan
500
Who was the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer for the American Ballet?
Misty Copeland
500
This anthem was first written as a poem by John Rosamond Johnson and later put to music by his brother James Weldon Johnson.
What is Lift Every Voice and Sing.