Civil Rights Leaders
This Baptist minister led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington.
Answer: Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This river was important to the founding of Jamestown because it allowed ships to dock and provided transportation.
What is the James River?
This document begins with the words “We the People.”
What is the United States Constitution?
This agricultural scientist developed hundreds of products from peanuts and sweet potatoes.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This man became the first Black President of the United States in 2009.
Who is Barack Obama?
This NAACP field secretary refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Founded in 1607, this was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What was Jamestown?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This NASA mathematician’s calculations were critical to the success of early U.S. space missions.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This baseball player broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
Before becoming a leading voice for Black empowerment, this activist was known as Malcolm Little.
Who is Malcolm X?
This Virginian wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This instrument measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
This neurosurgeon became the first Black U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Who is Ben Carson?
This NBA legend known as “His Airness” played most of his career with the Chicago Bulls.
Who is Michael Jordan?
This Supreme Court case ended legal segregation in public schools in 1954.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This was the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
What is Richmond?
This is the largest continent in the world.
What is Asia?
This inventor improved the electric traffic light and held over 50 patents.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
This track star won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Who is Jesse Owens?
This organization, founded in 1909, played a major role in fighting racial discrimination through the courts.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
This decisive 1781 battle in Virginia led to the end of the American Revolution.
What was the Battle of Yorktown?
This sport uses a bat, ball, and bases.
What is baseball?
This engineer invented a groundbreaking method for cataract surgery using lasers.
Who is Patricia Bath?
This former Secretary of State was the first Black woman to hold that position.
Who is Condoleezza Rice?