This man was a famous boxer and past heavyweight champion of the world and was born in Kentucky in 1942?
Joe Louis
Michael Jordan
Muhammed Ali
This man was the first African-American professional baseball player and played for the Brooklyn Dodgers?
Booker T. Washington
Muhammad Ali
Jackie Robinson
Black History Month was officially celebrated all across the country during this year?
2000
1976
1969
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
Frederick Douglass
Booker T. Washington
Carter G. Woodson
This man is a famous chemist and his research on peanuts, sweet potatoes, and other products helped poor southern farmers vary their crops
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington Carver
George Washington
This woman helped other slaves gain their freedom as a “conductor" of the Underground Railroad. She helped to free over 300 slaves.
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Bessie Coleman
Black History Month is observed this month in the United States and other countries?
August
April
February
This woman became the first African American woman in space, traveling aboard the Endeavour Space Shuttle?
Ruby Bridges
Mae Jemison
Oprah Winfrey
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
Clarence Thomas
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.
Malcom X
Barack Obama
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?
Rosa Parks
Harriet Tubman
Kamala Harris
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?
Mei Jemison
Maya Angelou
Toni Morrison
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?
Jesse Owens
Martin Luther King Jr.
Barack Obama
