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