Leaders & Heroes
The first African American president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama
Invented the traffic light
Who is Garrett Morgan
The first African American to win a Grammy Award
Who is Ella Fitzgerald
This amendment ended slavery
What is The 13th Amendment
This African country has the largest population
What is Nigeria
The famous African American abolitionist and speaker
Who is Frederick Douglass
The first African American Major League Baseball player
Who is Jackie Robinson
Music style Louis Armstrong make popular
What is Jazz
This march happened in Washington, D.C. in 1963
What is The March on Washington
This holiday celebrates African culture and unity
What is Kwanzaa
The first African American woman to run for president
Who is Shirley Chisholm
The first African American woman doctor
Who is Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
The first African American woman tennis champion
Who is Althea Gibson
The Underground Railroad was?
What is a secret escape network
The definition of diaspora
What is living outside one’s homeland
Helped integrate schools in New Orleans in 1960
Who is Ruby Bridges
The first African American female engineer at NASA
Who is Mary Jackson
Painted scenes of African American life
Who is Jacob Lawrence
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was held?
Where is Montgomery, Alabama
This movement ended segregation
What is The Civil Rights Movement
The famous poet of the Harlem Renaissance
Who is Langston Hughes
Invented the Super Soaker water gun
Who is Lonnie Johnson
Dance and music style began in the 1970s
What is Hip-hop
The Tuskegee Airmen were?
What is African American pilots
This holiday celebrates freedom from slavery
What is Juneteenth