Black History Month

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

Born in 1954, at the age of 6 she became the first African-American student to integrate her neighborhood elementary school

This woman helped other slaves gain their freedom as a “conductor" of the Underground Railroad. She helped to free over 300 slaves.

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