Black History Month

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

The Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American flying unit in the American military, flew more than ___________ 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.

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

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

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.