WorksheetsFranklin Celebrates Black History
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
This lawyer fought against segregation in schools and later became the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
Sojourner Truth
Thurgood Marshall
Harriet Tubman
Booker T. Washington
Who founded Tuskegee University and the National Negro Business League?
Booker T. Washington
Rosa Parks
Bessie Coleman
Dr. Mae Jemison
The month of February was chosen to be Black History Month in honor of Abraham Lincoln and ____________. They were both born in February.
Martin Luther King
Harriet Tubman
Daniel Hale Williams
Frederick Douglass
Her son was illegally sold, causing her to take the issue to court. She was the first black woman to challenge a white man in the United States court.
Sojourner Truth
Molly Williams
Harriet Tubman
Rosa Parks
Who was the MOST visible African American Baptist minister and leader in the Civil Rights Movement until his assassination in 1968.
Daniel Hale Williams
Bessie Coleman
W.E.B. Bu Bois
Martin Luther King
Who was the 1st African American doctor to perform open-heart surgery in 1893?
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Dr. Mae Jemison
Dr. Bowers
Dr. Johnson
She was the first license African-American pilot in the world and the first Native American pilot in the world. She was known for performing flying tricks.
Amelia Earhart
Ruby Bridges
Molly Williams
Bessie Coleman
Who was the first African American player for the Brooklyn Dodgers and made it to six World Series?
Koby Bryant
Mahamad Ali
Jackie Robinson
Michael Jordan
After a long day at work, this brave lady refused to give up her seat on the bus.
Harriet Tubman
Rosa Parks
Ruby Bridges
Molly Williams
Who was best known for discovering many ways to use the peanut?
George Washington Carver
George Washington
Langston Hughes
Frederick Douglass
Who was the first African-American child to attend an all-white school in the south.
Ruby Bridges
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Thurgood Marshall
She was the first African-American woman accepted into NASA astronaut training program. The first African-American woman in space. The first African-American woman to act on Star Trek.
Rosa Parks
Molly Williams
Harriet Tubman
Mae Jemison
This person escaped slavery and went back 13 times to lead over 70 others to freedom using the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
Rosa Parks
Michelle Obama
Madam C.J. Walker
What is the Underground Railroad?
A train African-Americans use to ride to freedom.
A number of safe homes (called stations) that hid slaves as they traveled north to freedom.
Who escaped to freedom by mailing himself to Pennsylvania in a wooden box?
Henry "Box" Brown
Shoe "Box" Brown
Brown Shoebox
Harriet Tubman
She became one of the first female self-made millionaires in the United States selling Hair Care products.
Amanda Gorman
Kamala Harris
Ida B. Wells
Madam C.J. Walker
This person is best know for their autobiography I know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Ruby Bridges
Michael Jordan
Josephine Baker
Maya Angelou
This woman is best know for being a famous performer in Paris, a World War II spy, and a civil rights activist.
Oprah Winfrey
Mae C. Jemison
Josephine Baker
His nickname is "The Greatest"
Michael Jordan
Muhammad Ali
Jackie Robinson
