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WorksheetsFamous African Americans
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Who was the first African American president?
John F. Kennedy
Barack Obama
Martin Luther King
Rosa Parks
Who said the "I Have A Dream" Speech
Abraham Lincoln
Barack Obama
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Who was a conductor in the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Nelson Mandela
Langston Hughes
Tiger Woods
Who was the first black baseball player
Sojourner Truth
Frederick Douglas
Jackie Robinson
Abraham Lincoln
Who wrote the speech "Ain't I a Women"
Coretta Scott King
Helen Keller
Rosa Parks
Sojourner Truth
Who was the first African American to become a Supreme Court Justice
Frederick Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
Thurgood Marshall
Emmett Till
Who desegregated the all-white William Frantz Elementry School in Louisiana
Raymond Parks
Malcolm X
Claudette Colvin
Ruby Bridges
Who wrote a "Dream Deferred"
Carl Sandburg
Langston Hughes
Rita Dove
Robert Hayden
Who helped found the NAACP
George Washington
Michael Jordan
W.E.B. Du Bois
Harriet Tubman
Who developed products using peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Barack Obama
Ida B. Wells
George Washington Carver
Who wrote the autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
Rosa Parks
Maya Angelou
Frederick Douglas
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
Mary Angelou
Booker T. Washington
Martin Luther King Jr.
Richard Nixon
Who wrote an antislavery newspaper called "The North Pole"
Rosa Parks
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglas
George W. Bush
Who was an African-American Jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance
Louis Armstrong
W.E.B. Du Bois
Michael Jackson
Malcolm X
Who won 4 gold medals at the Olympics in Germany when Hitler was ruling it
Jackie Robinson
Thurgood Marshall
Jesse Owens
Nat Turner
Who refused to give up her seat to a white man on the bus
Nat Turner
Stonewall Jackson
Harriet Tubman
Rosa Parks
Who led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia during 1831
Nat Turner
George Washington
Medgar Evers
Malcolm X
Who became the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi
Frederick Douglas
Jesse Owens
Medgar Evers
James Brown
Who was an advocate of black power and was the figurehead for the Nation of Islam
Louis Armstrong
Satchel Paige
Malcolm X
Sojourner Truth
First African American Female to win a Grammy
Althea Gibson
Ella Fitzgerald
Rosa Parks
Duke Ellington
Who was the first African-American general officer in the U.S. Air Force
Frederick Douglas
Sammy Davis Jr.
Miles Davis
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
Who was the first African-American female pilot
Bessie Coleman
Misty Copeland
Booker T. Washington
Dee Bennett
Who organized the first black history week
Charlotte Stephens
Carter T Woodson
Dee Bennett
Rosa Parks
Who wrote books and articles revealing the truth behind many lynchings
Ida B. Wells
Rosa Parks
Harriet Tubman
John F. Kennedy
Who was the African-American to be the first person killed in the Boston Massacre
Malcolm X
Harriet Tubman
Samuel Adams
Crispus Attucks
