Black History Bowl Week 3

He received the Noble Peace Prize in 1964. At the time he was the youngest person in history to receive this award.

• Barack Obama

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Reverend Leon Lowry

• Homer Plessy

He was the first African American elected to the school board in 1976.

• Mansa Musa

• Doris Reddick

• Reverend Leon Lowry

• Martin Luther King Jr.

This history maker was appointed to the United States Supreme Court in 1967, by Lyndon Johnson.

• Thurgood Morshall

• Michael Johnson
• Homer Plessy

• Joseph W. Hatchett

She refused to give up her seat on a bus, and sparked a boycott.

• Mansa Musa

• Rosa Parks

• M. Athalie Range

• Doris Reddick

He ruled over the Empire of Mali and made Timbuktu a major trading center in Africia.

• Barack Obama

• Joseph W. Hatchett

• Homer Plessey

• Mansa Musa

This inventor made a helment that allowed fireman to enter smoke-filled buildings and made improvements to the traffic light.

• Carter G. Woodson

• Jonathan C. Gibbs

• Garrett Morgan

• Ernest E. Just

In 1970 she was appointed a Secretary of the Department of Community Affairs by Governor Rubin.

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This history maker is most known for refusing to leave a "white only" rail car because he was one eighth black.

• Johnthan Gibbs

• Carter G. Woodson

• Reverend Leon Lowry

• Homer Plessy

She was the first African American women elected to the Hillsborough County School Board

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He was elected to the Illinois Senate and eight years later he became the 3rd African American to join the U.S. Senate.

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Mansa Musa

• Barack Obama

• Harriet Tubman