COMMUNITY MEETING BLACK HISTORY MONTH QUIZ

I was the first African-American child to attend an all-white public elementary school in the American South. Who am I?

• Ruby Bridges

• Hattie McDaniel

• Aretha Franklin

• Oprah Winfrey

I created specialized hair products for African-American hair and was one of the first American women to become a self-made millionaire. Who am I?

• Patricia Bath

• Madam C.J. Walker

• Mary Mahoney

• Chaka Khan

I was an abolitionist who fought against slavery and for women's rights.  I published an antislavery newspaper called the North Star.  I became a consultant to President Abraham Lincoln.

• Frederick Douglass
• Garrett Morgan

• Booker T. Washington
• Abraham Lincoln

I escaped slavery in Maryland in 1849.  I helped hundreds of slaves travel north on the Underground Railroad.  I also helped John Brown recruit solders for the raid on Harpers Ferry.

• Jackie Robinson
• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks
• Ruby Bridges

I worked for racial equality.  Many heard my "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.  I was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Barack Obama

• Malcolm X

I was the first African American allowed to play major league baseball.  I played for the Brooklyn Dodgers for 10 years.

• Harriet Tubman
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Rosa Parks
• Jackie Robinson

I was a scientist who made hundreds of products from peanuts, sweet potatoes, pecans, and soybeans.  Some of these products included adhesives, dyes, and rubber substitute.

• George Washington Carver
• Thurgood Marshall
• Sarah E. Goode
• Sojourner Truth

What basketball player was the first to score 100 points in a single game?

• Jesse Owens

• Wilt Chamberlain

• Michael Jordan

• Lebron James

Who was the first African-American President of the United States of America?

• Barack Obama

• Wilt Chamberlain

• Jerry Lawson

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

American engineer, physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.

• Mae C. Jemison

• Shirley Ann Jackson

• Alice Ball

• Katherine G. Johnson