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WorksheetsBlack HIstory Month
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 11mins
What woman led more than 300 slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Michelle Obama
Oprah Winfrey
Who was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice?
Charley Pride
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thurgood Marshall
What basketball player was the first to score 100 points in a single game?
Wilt Chamberlain
Michael Jordan
Jesse Owens
Who was the first African-American President of the United States of America?
Colin Powell
Dr. George Washington Carver
Barack Obama
What African-American woman made history when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man?
Rosa Parks
Aretha Franklin
Wilma Rudolph
Who was the first African-American Country Music Star?
Colin Powell
Wilt Chamberlain
Charley Pride
Who became the first black player in Major League Baseball in 1947?
Michael Jordan
Jackie Robinson
Muhammad Ali
Who invented over 300 products from the peanut?
Colin Powell
Thurgood Marshall
Dr. George Washington Carver
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?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Barack Obama
Reverend Jesse Jackson
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".
Frederick Douglass
Michael Jackson
Michael Jordan
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.
Frederick Douglass
Michael Jackson
Booker T. Washington
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.
Marcus Garvey
Ruby Bridges
Langston Hughes
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.
Langston Hughes
Jessie Owens
Ruby Bridges
What are civil rights?
The wrong things people do to each other
The right answers on a test
The laws that say we are all free and all have privileges
When we are able to be free and make our own choices we have...
Freedom
Racism
Slavery
What is Segregation?
Separating people because of the colour of their skin or their culture
It is a science problem
Someone who speaks up for a cause
African-American mathematician who made contributions to the United States' aeronautics and space programs with the early application of digital electronic computers at NASA.
Katherine G. Johnson
Patricia Bath
Valerie Thomas
I won four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. This made Hitler mad because he assumed the Germans were superior.
Marcus Garvey
Ruby Bridges
Jessie Owens
