Black History Month

Condoleezza Rice became the first black female _______.

• U.S. secretary
• U.S. Supreme judge
• presidential candidate

Who was Madam C.J. Walker?

• American's first woman self-made millionaire
• politician 
• runway model

What war was fought as a result of slavery?

• the Civil War
• American Revolution
• World War I

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

• Fredrick Douglass
• Rosa Parks
• Jackie Robinson

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

• Frederick Douglass 
• Rosa Parks
• Harriet Tubman

Who was the first person to perform open heart surgery?

• Dr, Charles Drew

• Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

• Dr. Mae Jemison

• George Washington Carver

Who created more than 300 products from peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes?

• Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

• George Washington Carver

• John Albert Burr

• Norbert Rillieux

Who invented the automatic stop sign, better known as the traffic light?

• Jewell Plummer Cobb

• Garrett A. Morgan

• Benjamin Banneker

• Ernest Everett Just

Who invented the gas mask used by firefighters in the early 1900?

• George Washington Carter

• Garrett A. Morgan

• President Obama

• Ms. McClain

Who invented the pacemaker?

• Otis Boykin
• Russell Williams
• Dr. Charles Drew
• Dr. Patricia Bath