famous African Americans

Who was the first African American to play major league baseball?

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Jackie Robinson

• George Washington Carver

• Thurgood Marshall

True of False: Martin Luther King used violence to protest the unjust laws.

• True

• False

Rosa Parks was arrested because

• she was blind and deaf.

• she refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man.

• she freed the slaves.

• she was a Mexican American farm worker.

George Washington Carver is known as....

• a blind and deaf person

• a Supreme Court judge

• an Italian explorer

• a botanist and inventor

Mae Jemison is the first African American to __________________________________ .

• Fly a plane across the world.

• Travel to space.

• Play professional soccer.

• Play professional tennis.

What sport does Serena Williams play?

• soccer

• badmington

• basketball

• tennis

Oprah Winfrey is known as a famous _________.

• astronaut

• singer

• talk show host

• teacher

Coretta Scott King was a civil rights activist and the wife of ___________.

• Barack Obama

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Duke Ellington

• Nat King Cole

African American who studied science and plants. Became a teacher. Developed hundreds of uses for peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans.

• George Washington Carver
• George Washington
• Cesar Chavez
• Powhatan

Who was the first African American president of the United States?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Barack Obama

• Booker T. Washington

• Ruby Bridges