Duplicate of Black History Month Facts

George Washington Carver created peanut butter.

What was Maya Angelou famous for?

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was formed in ___?

Name the amendment that abolished slavery and when was it placed

Madam C.J. Walker was the first woman to become a self-made millionaire.

In what year did Harriet Tubman flee Maryland?

In what year did Black History Month become a month long celebration

Claudette Colvin was arrested 9 months before Rosa Parks for not giving up her seat on the bus to white passengers.

_________________________ was the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize

Who was the first African American President of the United States?

When did Jackie Robinson become the first African American Major League Baseball player?

What was the name of the landmark Supreme Court case that ended school segregation?

In 1993, _________________________ won the Nobel Prize for Literature

_____ was the first African American woman elected to the House of Representatives.

Langston Hughes was the first black man to become a lawyer in 1854.

W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Hattie McDaniel was the first African American performer to receive an Academy Award in 1940.

Mae Jemison was a doctor on what mission?