Black History Month: Civics Spotlights

What is Thurgood Marshall's claim to fame? Choose 2.

• First African American Governor of Virginia

• Lawyer in the Brown v. Board case

• First African American Supreme Court Justice

• Lawyer known for working domestic cases and probation cases

What is Jane Bolin's claim to fame? Choose 2.

• First African American, female judge

• First African American, female Lt. Governor in Virginia

• First African American, female serving in the US Congress

• Worked with domestic cases and probation cases as a lawyer.

What is John Lewi's claim to fame? Choose 3.

• Civil Rights Activist: worked with Dr. King and led the march to Selma

• Second African- American elected to the House of Representatives for Georgia

• First African American candidate to run for president

• First African American to serve in the US Senate

• Likes to get in "Good Trouble"

Virginia's first African American and female Lt. Governor and former Marine-

• Kamala Harris

• Michelle Obama

• Winsome Earle-Sears

• Shirley Chisholm

Virginia's first African- American Governor who was elected in the 1990s-

• George Edwin Taylor

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

• Justin Fairfax

• Douglas Wilder

Select the true statements about Kamala Harris.

• Attended Yale law school

• First African American and female Vice President

• Ran for President

• Former Attorney General for California

First African American Senator, representing the state of Mississippi-

• George Edwin Taylor

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

• John Lewis

• Douglas Wilder

First African- American female in Congress, representing the state of New York-

• Shirley Chisholm

• Jane Bolin

• Coretta Scott King

• Kamala Harris

What is George Edwin Taylor's claim to fame? Choose 2.

• First African American presidential candidate in 1904

• First African American to vote

• Attended Howard University for law school

• A member of the Negro Liberty Party

Who did President Biden nominate for the Supreme Court?

• Kamala Harris

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

• Ketanji Brown Jackson

• Nancy Pelosi