Black History Month

Who was the first African American president?

• Barak Obama

• Kamala Harris

• George Washington

• Martin Luther King JR

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 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

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

I was the first African American to attend an all-white elementary school in the South.  For my protection, I had to be escorted by U.S. Marshals to and from William Frantz Elementary School that first day.

• Marcus Garvey

• Jessie Owens

• Langston Hughes

• Ruby Bridges

Who was the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress?

• Shirley Chisholm

• Maya Angelou

• Kamala Harris

• Katherine Johnson

She was the first African American women to win a National Tennis Championship

• Althea Gibson

• Serena WIlliams

• Venus Williams

• Shirley Chisplm

Black educator, author, and leader who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama 

• Booker T. Washingotn

• George Washington Carver

• Cassius Clay

• Chuck Berry

Created a system for storing blood

• Charles Drew

• Colin Powell

• Clarence Thomas

• Cassius Clay

singer, songwriter and guitarist who pioneered rock and roll

• Elvis Presley

• Chuck Berry

• Marvin Gaye

• Duke Ellington

First Black Supreme Court justice

• Thurgood Marshall

• Clarance Thomas

• Duke Ellington