This man was a famous boxer and past heavyweight champion of the world and was born in Kentucky in 1942?
Joe Louis
Muhammed Ali
Michael Jordan
This man was the first African-American professional baseball player and played for the Brooklyn Dodgers?
Jackie Robinson
Muhammad Ali
Booker T. Washington
Black History Month was officially celebrated all across the country during this year?
1976
1969
2000
This man was the first African-American man on a U.S. postage stamp. He was responsible for the early development and success of Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama. He was also adviser to many presidents of the United States
Carter G. Woodson
Frederick Douglass
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
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
This woman helped other slaves gain their freedom as a “conductor" of the Underground Railroad. She helped to free over 300 slaves.
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Bessie Coleman
Black History Month is observed this month in the United States and other countries?
August
February
April
This woman became the first African American woman in space, traveling aboard the Endeavour Space Shuttle?
Ruby Bridges
Oprah Winfrey
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?
Carter G. Woodson
Thurgood Marshall
Clarence Thomas
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?
Malcom X
Barack Obama
Martin Luther King Jr.
This man was the first African-American president of the United States?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Barack Obama
Jackie Robinson
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?
Kamala Harris
Rosa Parks
Harriet Tubman
Born in 1954, at the age of 6 she became the first African-American student to integrate her neighborhood elementary school
Serena Williams
Rosa Parks
Ruby Bridges
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
Toni Morrison
Mei Jemison
This famous author and playwright won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993?
Maya Angelou
Rosa Parks
Toni Morrison
This famous man was the first American track and field athlete to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games?
Barack Obama
Martin Luther King Jr.
Jesse Owens
