Black History Month

In the book Courage Has No Color, America’s first black paratroopers were fighting in (a)   (which war).

Charlotte Forten was a free African-American teenager who lived in __________________ before the Civil War.

• Massachusetts

• West Virginia

• Virginia

• Connecticut

Bessie Coleman, a Black and Native American woman, was the first to earn her international pilot’s license in 1921 (two years BEFORE Amelia Earhart!) from (a)   (which country).

The Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American flying unit in the American military, flew more than (a)   missions. 

How old is the African-American female narrator in Kadir Nelson's Heart and Soul?

• 99

• 101

• 110

• 100

Susie King Taylor was one of the first black nurses during the Civil War. She treated soldiers from the 1st ____________ _____________ Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

(a)  

In the book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, the family facing discrimination lives in (a)   (which state).

Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden were black female mathematicians known as “ (a)   ”. 

Did you know that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote a book about African-American inventors?

Who did he say invented the microphone in your cell phone?

• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

• James West

• Fred Jones

• Dr. Percy Julian

What is one of the names of the children who fought for civil rights during

the 1963 Birmingham Children's March?

• Arnetta Streeter

• Booker T. Washington

• Wash Booker

• Martin Luther King, Jr.