Famous African American Challenge

I was a former slave who later founded the Tuskegee Institute.

• Harriet Tubman

• Booker T Washington

• Benjamin Banneker

• George Washington Carver

I escaped slavery and helped many slaves travel north on the Underground Railroad.

• Harriet Tubman

• Billie Holiday

• Ella Fitzgerald

• Edna Lewis

I was the first African American allowed to play professional baseball. I played for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

• Michael Jordan

• Jackie Robinson

• Jesse Owens

• Bill Pickett

I played in the NBA for the Chicago Bulls and won six championships.

• Jesse Owens

• Arthur Ashe

• Michael Jordan

• Jackie Robinson

I fought against slavery and for women's rights. I published the paper North Star.

• Frederick Douglass

• Booker T Washington

• Ben Carson

• Marcus Garvey

I made Adolph Hitler angry by winning four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics.

• Jessie Owens

• Langston Hughes

• Sojourner Truth

• Thurgood Marshall

I refused to give up my seat on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

• Rosa Parks

• Ruby Bridges

• Wilma Rudolph

• Phyllis Wheatley

I was the first African American to attend an all white elementary school in the South.

• Ruby bridges

• Rosa Parks

• Edna Lewis

• Billie Holiday

I was born in Jamaica, and I wanted to move African Americans back to Africa.

• Marcus Garvey

• Michael Jordan

• Thurgood Marshall

• Bill Pickett

I worked for racial equality and wrote the "I Have a Dream" speech.

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Frederick Douglass

• Benjamin Banneker

• Barack Obama