Black History Month

Who was the first woman in any field to earn a doctorate from MIT?

• Kamala Harris

• Kimberly Bryant

• Shirley Ann Jackson

• Valerie Thomas

Guion Bluford Jr. was the first African-American man to....

• go skydiving

• travel into space

• become an IBM Fellow

• graduate from Harvard

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

• Katherine Johnson

• Amanda Spann

• Oprah Winfrey

• Kerry Washington

Amanda Spann used her knowledge of coding to

• Create a foundation for modern video games, web design, animation and graphics

• Join IBM in 1956 and design software as a computer programmer

• Create a designer dress with Tyra Banks

• Create the App Accelerator, a program that helps businesses with no technical training build their own apps

What does the acronym HBCU stand for?

• Historically Black Colleges and Unicycles

• Historical Brownie Cupcakes

• Historically Black Colleges and Universities

• History Because of You

HBCU's are colleges and universities that only African-Americans can attend.

• True- HBCUs allow segregation

• False- HBCUs do not allow segregation, but were created to be America’s First Representation of Diversity and Inclusion

Who was a mathematician, and one of the first African-American women to earn a PhD in mathematics (from Yale University in 1949)?

• Maya Angelou

• Beyonce'

• Evelyn Boyd Granville

• Angela Bassett

Who is this person?

• Muhammed Ali

• Mary Jackson

• Rosa Parks

Where was Rosa Parks from?

• Georgia

• South Carolina

• Alabama

What war did Muhammed Ali refuse to fight in?

• Iraqi

• Vietnam

• USA