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 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.
Mae Jemison
Kimberly Bryant
Kathleen Johnson
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
Lonnie Johnson
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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?
Sojourner Truth
Rosa Parks
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Michele Obama
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?
Harriet Tubman
Marian Anderson
Maya Angelou
Rosa Parks
This famous author and playwright won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993?
Toni Morrison
Toni Braxton
Rosa Parks
Althea Gibson
This famous man was the first American track and field athlete to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games?
Michael Jordan
Magic Johnson
Benjamin Banneker
Jesse Owens
Wearing leg braces as a child, she grew up to be an Olympic sprinter.
Sojourner Truth
Maya Angelou
Oprah Winfrey
Wilma Rudolph
Who invented the Super Soaker water gun?
Lonnie Johnson
Denzel Washtington
Otis Boykin
Michael Jackson
