3-5 Black History Month Quiz Bowl!

Who performed the first successful open-heart surgery?

What sport BESIDES basketball did Michael Jordan play professionally?

What year did Barack Obama become President?

Which African American artist has won the most Grammy Awards to date?

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the _____________________.

What year was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?

What laws made segregation in the South legal?

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the _____________________.

In what year did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

The first black-owned radio station was based in this city.

Who was crippled as a child, but became the first black woman to win 3 Olympic gold medals?

Who was the first African-American to make a flight in space?

What slave actually mailed himself to a free state in 8 ft. box and became a freeman in 1849?

Trueor false?  In the American Revolution,African-Americans fought only on the colonial side.

What war did the Tuskegee Airmen fly in?

Who was the first black mayor of Atlanta, Georgia?

Who was the first black woman ever to serve in U.S. Congress?

What former slave and abolitionist published The North Star, an abolitionist newspaper?