Black History Trivia

What month is Black History celebrated in Texas?

• September

• March

• February

• January

Called "the mother of the civil rights movement"; refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.

• Harriet Tubman

• Michelle Obama

• Sojourner Truth

• Rosa Parks

Became the first African American Secretary of State in 2001.

• Ben Carson

• Colin Powell

• Barack Obama

• Michael Powell

Refused to fight in a war because of his religious beliefs; was a professional boxer

• Mike Tyson

• Floyd Mayweather

• Muhammad Ali

• Malcolm X

Born into slavery but became America's leading black educator

• Mary McLeod Bethune

• Booker T Washington

• George Washington Carver

• Madam C.J. Walker

Became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball; played for the Brooklyn Dodgers

• Malcolm X

• Jackie Robinson

• Jesse Owens

• Josh Gibson

Escaped slavery by traveling through the Underground Railroad

• Frederick Douglass

• Rosa Parks

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman

Became the first African American woman to go to space in 1992

• Bessie Coleman

• Mae C. Jemison

• Katherine Johnson

• Madam C.J. Walker

Did a lot of work to help the civil rights movement; was a dancer; poet and author

• James Baldwin

• Langston Hughes

• Oprah Winfrey

• Maya Angelou

First African American of the United States; served as the 44th President

• Kamala Harris

• Barack Obama

• Condoleezza Rice

• Colin Powell