Black History Month - february 2026

Black History Month was officially celebrated all across the country during this year?

Who was the first African American U.S. Secretary of State?

This famous author and playwright won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993?

This man is a famous chemist and his research on peanuts, sweet potatoes, and other products helped poor southern farmers vary their crops

This man was the first African-American professional baseball player and played for the Brooklyn Dodgers?

Who became the first African American woman billionaire?

Known as the “Queen of Soul,” which singer’s 1967 hit Respect became an anthem for civil rights and feminism?

Black History Month is observed this month in the United States and other countries?

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?

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?

This famous man was the first American track and field athlete to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games?

This woman became the first African American woman in space, traveling aboard the Endeavour Space Shuttle?

Which amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States?

This woman helped blacks escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad after moving to Battle Creek in 1857?

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?

Who was the first African American and Native American woman to hold a pilot license?

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

Which tennis player was the first African American man to win Wimbledon?

Who was the first African American model to be featured on the cover of GQ magazine?

This woman helped other slaves gain their freedom as a “conductor" of the Underground Railroad

Where did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his famous ‘I Have A Dream’ speech?

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?

This man was a famous boxer and past heavyweight champion of the world and was born in Kentucky in 1942?

This man was the first African-American president of the United States?

Which abolitionist helped lead enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad?

Simone Biles is the most decorated sportsperson in which sport?

Who was the first African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice?