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Black HIstory Month

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What woman led more than 300 slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Michelle Obama

c)

Oprah Winfrey

2.

Who was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice?

a)

Charley Pride

b)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

c)

Thurgood Marshall

3.

What basketball player was the first to score 100 points in a single game?

a)

Wilt Chamberlain

b)

Michael Jordan

c)

Jesse Owens

4.

Who was the first African-American President of the United States of America?

a)

Colin Powell

b)

Dr. George Washington Carver

c)

Barack Obama

5.

What African-American woman made history when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Aretha Franklin

c)

Wilma Rudolph

6.

Who was the first African-American Country Music Star?

a)

Colin Powell

b)

Wilt Chamberlain

c)

Charley Pride

7.

Who became the first black player in Major League Baseball in 1947?

a)

Michael Jordan

b)

Jackie Robinson

c)

Muhammad Ali

8.

Who invented over 300 products from the peanut?

a)

Colin Powell

b)

Thurgood Marshall

c)

Dr. George Washington Carver

9.

Who is the only African-American honored by a national holiday and gave a famous speech "I Have A Dream" during the March on Washington?

a)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

b)

Barack Obama

c)

Reverend Jesse Jackson

10.

I was born in 1958 in Gary, Indiana. I became a pop singer. My album Thriller (1982) sold over 30 million copies. I earned the nickname "King of Pop".

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Michael Jackson

c)

Michael Jordan

11.

I was an abolitionist who fought against slavery and for women's rights. I published an antislavery newspaper called the North Star. I became a consultant to President Abraham Lincoln.

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Michael Jackson

c)

Booker T. Washington

12.

I was the first African American to attend an all-white elementary school in the South. For my protection, I had to be escorted by U.S. Marshals to and from William Frantz Elementary School that first day.

a)

Marcus Garvey

b)

Ruby Bridges

c)

Langston Hughes

13.

I was a poet who became a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance. My poems tell about African Americans and often contain jazz rhythms and dialect.

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

Jessie Owens

c)

Ruby Bridges

14.

What are civil rights?

a)

The wrong things people do to each other

b)

The right answers on a test

c)

The laws that say we are all free and all have privileges

15.

When we are able to be free and make our own choices we have...

a)

Freedom

b)

Racism

c)

Slavery

16.

What is Segregation?

a)

Separating people because of the colour of their skin or their culture

b)

It is a science problem

c)

Someone who speaks up for a cause

17.

African-American mathematician who made contributions to the United States' aeronautics and space programs with the early application of digital electronic computers at NASA.

a)

Katherine G. Johnson

b)

Patricia Bath

c)

Valerie Thomas

18.

I won four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. This made Hitler mad because he assumed the Germans were superior.

a)

Marcus Garvey

b)

Ruby Bridges

c)

Jessie Owens