Black History Month 2024

Which person is responsible for the creation of Black History Month?

• Shirley Chisholm

• Carter G Woodson

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglas

Who was America's first Black woman member of Congress?

• Shirley Chisholm

• Mae Jemison

• Katherine Johnson

• Harriet Tubman

Complete this Harriet Tubman quote: "I never ran my _____ off the track, and I never lost a passenger"

What did Harriet Tubman & Toussaint L'Ouverture have in common?

• They were both born free.

• They both had one white parent.

• They were both leaders of violent revolutions.

• They both risked their own lives to help others escape from slavery, even after they themselves were free.

What is an abolitionist?

• Someone who wants to abolish slavery.

• Someone who wants things to stay the same.

• Someone who believes in Enlightenment ideas.

• Someone willing to use violence to get what they want.

Neither Frederick Douglas nor Toussaint L'Ouverture knew their actual birthdays. Why not?

• Their birth certificates were lost in the destruction of war.

• Neither ever knew his mother.

• They were both born into slavery and their owners didn't keep records of exact birthdates for slaves.

• No one kept track of birthdays back then.

Who was the first African American to host his own nationwide television show?

• Frederick Douglass

• Carter G Woodson

• Nat King Cole

• Jackie Robinson

Who was America's first Black Supreme Court Justice?

• Carter G Woodson

• Nat King Cole

• Frederick Douglass

• Thurgood Marshall

Which Supreme Court case desegregated American schools?

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Roe V. Wade

• Obergefell V. Hodges

Who is America's first Black woman Supreme Court Justice?

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• Sandra Day O'Connor

• Ketanji Brown Jackson

• Sonia Sotomayor