Famous African Americans

What African American woman refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger?

• Frederick Douglass

• Rosa Parks

• Harriet Tubman

• Ruby Bridges

________________ was known as the "Moses" of her people.

• Harriet Tubman

• Ruby Bridges

• Bessie Coleman

• Amelia Earhart

______________ was an African American scientist and inventor, also known as "the plant doctor" and "the peanut man".

• George Washington Carver

• Thurgood Marshall

• Jesse Owens

• Barack Obama

wrote three books about being a slave and started a newspaper, and he was an abolitionist who fought against slavery.

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• George Washington Carver

• Frederick Douglass

• Jesse Owens

____________ was a track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics.

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• George Washington Carver

• Jesse Owens

• Frederick Douglass

________________ became the first African- American Supreme Court Justice.

• George Washington Carver

• Thurgood Marshall

• Jackie Robinson

• Martin Luther King Jr.

Rosa Parks refusal to give up her seat on the bus led to a bus ________________ that lasted over a year.

• boycott

• fair

• crash

• fire

In the Olympics, Jesse Owens competed in _________ events.

• track and field

• diving

• swimming

• archery

Jesse Owens participated in the Olympics __________.

• four times

• two times

• once

• never

Jesse Owens did not participate in the Olympics again in 1940 because of __________.

• injury

• discrimination

• his age

• World War II