Black History Month Crossword

These young men staged a "sit-in" at the Woolworth lunch counter on February 1, 1960.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• The Greensboro 4

• The Tuskegee Airmen

• Jackie Robinson and George Washington Carver

The first African-American pilots in the US military were known as

• the Tennessee Airmen

• The Flying Aces

• The Miracle Men

• The Tuskegee Airmen

Harriet Tubman was known as "Moses" because

• she led her people to freedom along the Underground Railroad.

• she was really old.

• some people thought she was a man.

• she parted the waters of the Nile River.

Who was a NASA mathematician, and the focus of the film Hidden Figures

• Katherine Johnson

• Amanda Spann

• Oprah Winfrey

• Kerry Washington

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

• The home of the poet and writer, Langston Hughes

• A movement that promoted music and literary works of African Americans

• A type of poetry written from the experiences of African Americans

• A dance move

Focusing attention on African-American contributions to the United States, Black History Month is observed annually in US in which month?

• January

• February

• June

• July

Who is this person?

• Muhammed Ali

• Mary Jackson

• Rosa Parks

Who was the first African American woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature?

• Toni Morrison

• Maya Angelou

• Alice Walker

• Zora Neale Hurston

Which landmark Supreme Court case declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Roe v. Wade

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

Who was the first African American to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice?

• Clarence Thomas

• Thurgood Marshall

• Barack Obama

• Frederick Douglass