Black History Month

This brave young lady was the first African American child to attend an all-white school.

• Barack Obama

• Maya Angelou

• Ruby Bridges

• Dr, Guion Bluford

This inventor developed hundreds of products from peanuts

• George Washington Carver

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Harriet Tubman

• Jackie Robinson

This medical doctor developed the concept of the blood bank.

• Shirley Chisholm

• Mae C. Jemison

• B.K. Bruce

• Dr. Charles R. Drew

This enterprising lady who developed beauty and hair care products was likely one of the first African American self-made millionaires.

• Sojourner Truth

• Jesse Owens

• Madam C. J. Walker

• Crispus Attacks

This brave woman was the first African American woman in space.

• Mae C. Jemison

• Thurgood Marshall

• Frederick Douglas

• Booker T. Washington

This man was born a slave and tried unsuccessfully to gain his freedom in the courts. His master finally freed him, but he died a year later.

• Shirley Chisholm

• Barbara Jordan

• Dred Scott

• Sarah E Goode

He was the first Black American in space.

• Dr. Guion Bluford

• Rosa Parks

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman

This woman changed her name from Isabella Baumfree to Sojourner Truth

• Jesse Owens

• Booker T. Washington

• Sojourner Truth

• Maya Angelou

This African American president grew up in both Hawaii and Jakarta (in Indonesia)

• Abraham Lincoln

• Bill Clinton

• Barack Obama

• Hillary Clinton

Jesse Owens won four gold ____ in the 1936 Olympics

• french fries

• medals

• apples

• potatoes