This man was a famous boxer and past heavyweight champion of the world and was born in Kentucky in 1942?
Muhammed Ali
This man was the first African-American professional baseball player and played for the Brooklyn Dodgers?
Jackie Robinson
Black History Month was officially celebrated all across the country during this year?
1976
This man was the first African-American man on a U.S. postage stamp. He was responsible for the early development and success of what is now Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama
Booker T. Washington
This man is a famous chemist and his research on peanuts, sweet potatoes, and other products helped poor southern farmers vary their crops
George Washington Carver
This woman helped other slaves gain their freedom as a “conductor" of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Black History Month is observed this month in the United States and other countries?
February
This woman became the first African American woman in space, traveling aboard the Endeavour Space Shuttle?
Mae Jemison
This man was the first African American Supreme Court justice and he played an instrumental role in promoting racial equality during the civil rights movement?
Thurgood Marshall
This man gave his most famous, “I Have a Dream” speech, in 1963, in which he spoke of his dream of a United States that is void of segregation and racism?
Martin Luther King Jr.
This man was the first African-American president of the United States?
Barack Obama
This woman is called "the mother of the civil rights movement," and she helped the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama?
Rosa Parks
This woman helped blacks escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad after moving to Battle Creek in 1857?
Sojourner Truth
This woman is a civil rights activist and best known for her 1969 memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which made literary history as the first nonfiction bestseller by an African American woman?
Maya Angelou
This famous author and playwright won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993?
Toni Morrison
This famous man was the first American track and field athlete to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games?
Jesse Owens
