WorksheetsAcademic Team Practice
Total questions: 49
Worksheet time: 51mins
This musical artist was rumored to have sold his soul for his talent.
Tom Morello
BB King
Robert Johnson
John Coltrane
This musical artist performed with her famous father after he passed away.
Natalie Cole
Nina Simone
Aretha Franklin
Billie Holliday
This musical artist had an extremely long career, performing at least 250 shows per year into his 70s.
B.B. King
Lenny Kravitz
John Coltrane
Chuck Berry
This singer's vocal style was based on the phrasings of jazz instrumentalists.
Nina Simone
Eartha Kitt
Marvin Gaye
Billie Holiday
This multi-talented celebrity was blacklisted for voicing concern about the war in Vietnam.
Eartha Kitt
Aretha Franklin
Marian Anderson
Natalie Cole
This singer was called the Queen of Soul.
Nina Simone
Natalie Cole
Billie Holiday
Aretha Frankliin
This singer performed at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after being denied a performance at a segregated auditorium.
Marian Anderson
Eartha Kitt
Natalie Cole
Billie Holiday
This saxophone player invented free jazz.
Louis Armstrong
Tom Morello
B.B. King
John Coltrane
This singer was very active in the civil rights movement and is sometimes referred to as the High Priestess of Soul.
Nina Simone
Anita Pointer
Natalie Cole
Bonnie Pointer
This guitarist wrote and performed "Johnny B. Goode" and developed the rockabilly sound.
Chuck Berry
B.B. King
Marvin Gaye
Robert Johnson
This guitarist is known for being politically active and his unique and creative playing style using guitar effects.
Tom Morello
Robert Johnson
B.B. King
Marvin Gaye
Match the trumpet player artist who also sang and recorded a very popular song.
Louis Armstrong/What a Wonderful World
Tom Morello/Crossroads
John Coltrane/Strange Fruit
Marvin Gaye/The Thrill is Gone
Some hits include "Jump", "So Excited" and "He's So Shy".
The Pointer Sisters
Natalie Cole
Eartha Kitt
Nina Simone
Orson Welles called her "the most exciting woman in the world":
Aretha Franklin
Eartha Kitt
Natalie Cole
Marian Anderson
This musician called his instrument "Lucille".
B.B. King
John Coltrane
Robert Johnson
Louis Armstrong
This performer scored hits with "What's Going On", "Mercy Mercy Me", and "Let's Get it On".
John Coltrane
The Pointer Sisters
Aretha Franklin
Marvin Gaye
This performer's father was a minister who eventually killed him.
Marvin Gaye
Robert Johnson
Chuck Berry
Tom Morello
The "B.B." in B.B. King's name derived from this:
Beale Street Blues Boy
Blues Blaster
Blues Buddy
Bourbon Street Bluesman
This is the only solo artist we studied for Black History Month who is presently alive:
Marvin Gaye
Eartha Kitt
Natalie Cole
Tom Morello
What university did First Lady Michelle Obama graduate from?
Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Spelman
Did slavery exist in what we know today as Canada?
False
True
Who spoke out the for freedom of slaves, equal rights for women and was the first black person to be nominated for Vice President of the United States?
Nat Turner
Colin Kaepernick
Frederick Douglass
Letitia Wood Brown
This individual was responsible for organizing one of the largest slave rebellions in US.
Nat Turner
Frederick Douglass
Henry Brown
Marcus Garvey
The first African-American child to attend an all-white school in Louisiana in 1960 sparking the end of segregation in American schools.
Viola Desmond
Ruby Bridges
Rosa Parks
Marcus Garvey
This individual had himself shipped in a box from Virginia to Pennsylvania - a state where he would be a free individual.
Henry Brown
Marcus Garvey
Nat Turner
Tarana Burke
This individual sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.
Taran Burke
Maya Angelou
Letitia Wood Brown
Colin Kaepernick
This Queen of Soul forever changed the music industry carving the way for many other musicians. R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Maya Angelou
Aretha Franklin
Viola Desmond
Rosa Parks
First African American woman director in Hollywood in 1971.
Maya Angelou
Tarana Burke
Rosa Parks
Letitia Wood Brown
First Black Female to earn a Harvard PhD.
Maya Angelou
Tarana Burke
Rosa Parks
Letitia Wood Brown
The original founder of the "Me Too" movement, in 2006.
Tarana Burke
Maya Angelou
Letitia Wood Brown
Ruby Bridges
