Black History Month

Wearing leg braces as a child, she grew up to be an Olympic sprinter.

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?

Who invented the Super Soaker water gun?

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

This woman became the first African American woman in space.

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

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

Who invented the carbon filament in the light bulb?