Black History Month Challenge Quiz

Garrett Morgan invented gas masks and __________

• the automatic traffic light

• the typewriter

• nylon

In 1993,__________won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

• Maya Angelou

• Alex Haley

• Toni Morrison

_____ was an inventor who helped design Washington, D.C.

• Benjamin Banneker

• George Washington Carver

• Frederick Douglass

Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable is considered the father of __________

• jazz

• blues

• Chicago

Phillis Wheatley published a collection of poetry in __________

• 1773

• 1837

• 1861

_____ was the first African American Supreme Court Justice.

• Booker T. Washington

• Thurgood Marshall

• Clarence Thomas

_____ was the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

• Ralph Bunche

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Colin Powell

W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the founders of __________

• the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

• Morehouse College

• the Congressional Black Caucus

In 1909, __________ , along with Robert Peary and a group of Inuit guides, was the first to reach the North Pole.

• Matthew Henson

• Nat Love

• James Beckwourth

When the Daughters of the American Revolution wouldn’t let her sing in Constitution Hall in 1939, __________ gave a concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

• Jessye Norman

• Marian Anderson

• Leontyne Price