This man was a famous boxer and past heavyweight champion of the world and was born in Kentucky in 1942?
Muhammed Ali
Wearing leg braces as a child, she grew up to be an Olympic sprinter.
Sojourner Truth
Maya Angelou
Wilma Rudolph
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?
Lonnie Johnson
Thurgood Marshall
Martin Luther King, Jr.
This famous author and playwright won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993?
Toni Morrison
Rosa Parks
Althea Gibson
Toni Braxton
This man was the first African-American professional baseball player and played for the Brooklyn Dodgers?
Jackie Robinson
This woman became the first African American woman in space.
Mae Jemison
Kathleen Johnson
Kimberly Bryant
This electrical engineer founded the not-for-profit organization "Black Girls Code" to rectify the underrepresentation of Africa-American girls and women in the technology industry.
Oprah Winfrey
Kimberly Bryant
Benjamin Banneker
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
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?
Harriet Tubman
Marian Anderson
Maya Angelou
Rosa Parks
Black History Month was officially celebrated all across the country during this year?
1976
This man was the first African-American president of the United States?
Barack Obama
Who invented the carbon filament in the light bulb?
Lewis H. Latimer
Thomas Edison
Otis Boykin
Who invented the Super Soaker water gun?
Lonnie Johnson
Otis Boykin
Denzel Washtington
Michael Jackson
This famous man was the first American track and field athlete to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games?
Magic Johnson
Jesse Owens
Michael Jordan
Benjamin Banneker
Black History Month is observed this month in the United States and other countries?
February
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.
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