BLACK HISTORY ROUND 1
He was the inventor of the traffic light.
The year the Civil Rights Act was signed.
What is 1964?
She was the first African American Olympian to win the All Around Title in gymnastics.
Who is Gabby Douglas?
The month of February was chosen for Black History Month to coincide with the birthdays of these two famous leaders.
Who is Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln?
His campaign motto was "Yes We Can".
Who is President Barack Obama?
This amendment to the Constitution banned slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Starting with $1.50 cash, what college did Mary McCleod Bethune found?
What is Bethune-Cookman College?
She was the first African American to win Miss America.
This notable scientist, astronomer and inventor was commissioned to help layout Washington, DC.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
She was the first African American female pilot.
What are the Buffalo Soldiers?
This leading crusader against lynching founded the first Black women's suffrage organization.
Who is Ida B. Wells-Barnett?
This African American male athlete once ranked as the number one tennis player in the world.
Who is Arthur Ashe?
In July 1881, this famous college opened in Alabama with Booker T. Washington as its first principal.
What is Tuskegee Institute?
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
She was the first African American woman to become a self-made millionaire after creating a line of hair products geared towards Black hair.
Who is Madame C.J. Walker?
This case resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that no black, free or slave could be a U.S. citizen.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
She was only 12 years old when she became the first female African American author published.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
The 1920s and 1930s ushered in a period of intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater and politics centered in Harlem, NY.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
His birth name was Cassius Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This federal holiday commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.
What is Juneteenth?
This agricultural scientist and inventor promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion and was the most prominent black scientist of the early 20th century.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This lawyer and civil rights activist was the first African American justice to serve as U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This female abolitionist and political activist escaped slavery and made some 19 missions to rescue about 300 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of anti-slavery activist and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This African American minister and human rights activists was born Malcolm Little and was known as Red and Detroit Red before converting to Islam.
Who is Malcolm X?