Black History Month Quiz

Maya Angelou was famous for:

• singing

• poetry

• cooking

• bee keeping

Who started Black History Month?

• Rosa Parks

• Nelson Mandela

• Carter G Woodsen

• Barack Obama

Who was the first black child to attend an all-white school?

• Simone Biles

• Shirley Cisholm

• Ruby Bridges

• Rosa Parks

Who was the first black person to win an Oscar?

• Hattie McDaniel

• Samuel L. Jackson

• James Earl Jones

• Cicely Tyson

Who was the first black person to win a grammy?

• Aretha Franklin

• Bobby Darin

• Ella Fitzgerald

• Michael Jackson

Who gave the infamous "I have a dream" speech?

• Your mom

• Martin Luther King

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Lebron James

Who was the first African American appointed to the Supreme Court?

• Barack Obama

• Thurgood Marshall

• Kamala Harris

• Carter G. Woodsen

Black History Month is during February because the work this man did as an abolitionist during the Civil War was so impactful and his birthday is in February. Who is he?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Malcolm X

• Elijah McCoy

• Frederick Douglass

Who freed slaves on the underground railroad and worked in the army during the Civil War?

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

• Amos Fortune

• Satchel Paige

Who is this famous boxer?

• Jack (John Arthur) Johnson

• Muhammad Ali

• Sugar Ray Robinson

• Joe Frazier