Black History Month Scavenger Hunt 103

This person invented a machine, called a "lasting machine," that stitched the leather of a shoe to its sole.

• Kobe Bryant

• Jan Matzeliger

• Duke Ellington

• Thomas Edison

This person served three years in reform school for attempted burglary before writing many famous rock-and-roll songs.

• Michael Jackson

• Prince

• Chuck Berry

• Beyonce

This person sang in church choirs while growing up as the granddaughter of two Methodist ministers.

• Cicely Tyson

• Tyler Perry

• Pop Smoke

• Leontyne Price

This person worked at a childcare center before becoming a well-known political figure.

• Shirley Chisholm

• Langston Hughes

• Kelly Rowland

• Oprah Winfrey

A Nation of Islam minister at one time, this person was assassinated while giving a speech in 1965.

• Marcus Garvey

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Assata Shakur

This person's given first and middle names at birth were "Edward Kennedy."

• James Baldwin

• Duke Ellington

• Childish Gambino

• Michael Jordan

This person was the first black congresswoman to be elected from the Deep South.

• Barbara Jordan

• Paul Robeson

• Mae Jameson

• Sojourner Truth

A Harvard graduate, this person played a role in starting the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

• Benjamin Banneker

• Charles Drew

• W.E.B. DuBois

• George Washington Carver

This person helped register black voters in Mississippi and led boycotts there of firms that practiced racial discrimination.

• Frederick Douglass

• Thurgood Marshall

• Medger Evers

• Jesse Owens

This person was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in making an Arab-Israeli peace in 1949.

• Ralph Bunche

• Elijah McCoy

• Crispus Attucks

• Madame C.J. Walker