AFRICAN-AMERICAN BLACK SCIENTIST "TREASURE HUNT"

FAMOUS AFRICAN-AMERICANS "TREASURE HUNT"

Each clue tells about a famous black American on the list at the bottom of each page. Use the list to connect to a short biography of each person.

Multiple Choice

This person started the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama where black children could learn skills such as shoemaking and farming.

• Booker T. Washington

• Frederick Douglas

• Mae Jamison

• Thurgood Marshall

• Jesse Owens

Multiple Choice

This person started a newspaper called "The North Star."

• George Washington Carver

• Frederick Douglas

• Rosa Parks

• Thurgood Marshall

• Jesse Owens

Multiple Choice

This person refused to give up a seat on the bus. That led to a 382-day bus boycott by black people in Montgomery, Alabama.

• Sojourner Truth

• Rosa Parks

• Jackie Robinson

• Harriet Tubman

Multiple Choice

Because this person led so many slaves to freedom, he or she was sometimes called by the nickname Moses.

• Mae Jamison

• Rosa Parks

• Jackie Robinson

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

Multiple Choice

When this person was just a few weeks old, he and his mother were kidnapped. His mother was sold into slavery.

• George Washington Carver

• Frederick Douglas

• Thurgood Marshall

• Jesse Owens

• Booker T. Washington

Multiple Choice

This person was a doctor who spent two years working with poor people in Africa before she went on to become famous.

• Rosa Parks

• Jackie Robinson

• Harriet Tubman

• Mae Jamison

• Sojourner Truth

Multiple Choice

One of the 13 children, this person's birthname was Isabella Baumfree.

• Sojourner Truth

• Rosa Parks

• Mae Jamison

• Harriet Tubman

• Booker T. Washington

Multiple Choice

The president named this person to be the first African American to hold a seat on the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land.

• Frederick Douglas

• Thurgood Marshall

• Booker T. Washington

• George Washington Carver

• Jesse Owens

Multiple Choice

In 1962, this person became the first black player inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

• Jackie Robinson

• Mae Jamison

• Rosa Parks

• Sojourner Truth

Multiple Choice

In this person's performance at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games made him famous.

• Jesse Owens

• Frederick Douglas

• George Washington Carver

• Booker T. Washington

Multiple Choice

When this person was just a few weeks old, he and his mother were kidnapped. His mother was sold into slavery.

• George Washington Carver

• Frederick Douglas

• Thurgood Marshall

• Jesse Owens

• Booker T. Washington