Black History Month

Did slavery exist in what we know today as Canada?

• False

• True

Who spoke out the for freedom of slaves, equal rights for women and was the first black person to be nominated for Vice President of the United States?

• Nat Turner

• Colin Kaepernick

• Frederick Douglass

• Letitia Wood Brown

This individual was responsible for organizing one of the largest slave rebellions in US.

• Nat Turner

• Frederick Douglass

• Henry Brown

• Marcus Garvey

The first African-American child to attend an all-white school in Louisiana in 1960 sparking the end of segregation in American schools.

• Viola Desmond

• Ruby Bridges

• Rosa Parks

• Marcus Garvey

This individual had himself shipped in a box from Virginia to Pennsylvania - a state where he would be a free individual.

• Henry Brown

• Marcus Garvey

• Nat Turner

• Tarana Burke

This individual sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.

• Taran Burke

• Maya Angelou

• Letitia Wood Brown

• Colin Kaepernick

This Queen of Soul forever changed the music industry carving the way for many other musicians. R-E-S-P-E-C-T

• Maya Angelou

• Aretha Franklin

• Viola Desmond

• Rosa Parks

First African American woman director in Hollywood in 1971.

• Maya Angelou

• Tarana Burke

• Rosa Parks

• Letitia Wood Brown

First Black Female to earn a Harvard PhD.

• Maya Angelou

• Tarana Burke

• Rosa Parks

• Letitia Wood Brown

The original founder of the "Me Too" movement, in 2006.

• Tarana Burke

• Maya Angelou

• Letitia Wood Brown

• Ruby Bridges