Black History Bowl - 5th Grade

Who wrote the Black National Anthem - "Lift Every Voice and Sing"?

• George Washington Carver

• Ruby Bridges

• Maya Angelou

• James Weldon Johnson

Who was the first black woman to practice law in Hillsborough County?

• Blanche Armwood

• Arthenia Joyner

• Mary McLeod Bethune

• Ruby Bridges

Who was the first African American woman to become an airplane mechanic?

• Mary McLeod Bethune

• Madam C.J. Walker

• Willa Beatrice Brown

• Arthenia Joyner

Which person was an author and anthropologist, and whose father was mayor of Eatonville, Florida?

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Dorothy Vaughan

• Wilma Rudolph

• Dorothy C. York

Who started as a math teacher in Virginia and became one of the first African American women to hold a leadership position at NASA?

• Doris Reddick

• Arthenia Joyner

• Willa Beatrice Brown

• Dorothy Vaughan

A group of talented African American artists who sold artwork from the trunks of their cars

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Florida Highwaymen

Which person opened a Blacks only school in Daytona Beach which later grew into a college?

• Rosa Parks

• Marian Anderson

• Mary McLeod Bethune

• Sojourner Truth

First African American to serve as head of a Florida state agency (Department of Community Affairs), 1970

• Dorothy Vaughan

• M. Athalie Range

• Marian Anderson

• Dorothy C. York

Only African American member of the Lewis and Clark expedition who possessed great skills in scouting, hunting, and field medicine.

• Lonnie G. Johnson

• Johathon Gibbs

• York

• Homer Plessy

She taught English at Blake High School and had a school named after her in 2022 in Hillsborough County.

• Dorothy C. York

• Willa Beatrice Brown

• Rosa Parks

• Doris Reddick