BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Question 1

The first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States was....

Accepted Answer

Thurgood Marshall

Question 2

What important event happened when Frederick Douglass was sent to Baltimore?

Accepted Answer

He learned how to read.

Question 3

Mae Jemison was the first African American woman to be admitted into

Accepted Answer

NASA's astronaut training program and go into space.

Question 4

Black History month, also known as African American History month is in...

Accepted Answer

February

Question 5

The first female African American firefighter in the United States was.....

Accepted Answer

Molly Williams

Question 6

He founded Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (Now Tuskegee University).

Accepted Answer

Booker T. Washington

Question 7

Henry Box Brown was a 19th-century Virginia slave who escaped to freedom at the age of 33 by ....

Accepted Answer

...having himself mailed in a wooded crate.

Question 8

Harriet Tubman helped enslaved people runaway using a network of safe houses known as the.....

Accepted Answer

Underground Railroad.

Question 9

Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were instrumental in writing the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, a document that....

Accepted Answer

....declared "that all persons held as slaves shall be free".

Question 10

A famous quote from Mae Jemison was .....

Accepted Answer

...never be limited by other people's limited imagination.

Question 11

He was a Baptist minister who became the most visible spokesperson and leader of the Civil Rights Movement.

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question 12

A famous quote from Martin Luther King, Jr. was.....

Accepted Answer

....the time is always right to do what is right.

Question 13

She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana.

Accepted Answer

Ruby Bridges

Question 14

One of Frederick Douglass' famous quotes is....

Accepted Answer

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Question 15

A person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution like slavery is ...

Accepted Answer

..an abolitionist.

Question 16

One of the main leaders that helped end slavery (working together with Abraham Lincoln)....was

Accepted Answer

Frederick Douglass

Question 17

If you meet the requirements, where will you go on the Connections Academy field trip?

Accepted Answer

Museum of History and Golden Corral.

Question 18

The act of officially ending or stopping something like slavery is called......

Accepted Answer

Abolition

Question 19

The first licensed African-American pilot in the world and known for performing 'flying tricks' was....

Accepted Answer

Bessie Coleman

Question 20

He was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920's.

Accepted Answer

Langston Hughes

Question 21

Your project for this unit is to....

Accepted Answer

....research a person from Black History month and create a poster.

Question 22

A famouse African American civil rights activist who refused to relinquish her seat on a public bus...

Accepted Answer

Rosa Parks

Question 23

Mae Jemison was not only an astronaut but a ....

Accepted Answer

.....medical doctor and scientist.

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