Black History Month

Question 1

This is Civil Rights activist and Champion Boxer...

Accepted Answer

Muhammad Ali

Question 2

First Black American President and First Lady, 2008-2016

Accepted Answer

The Obamas

Question 3

First Black United States Supreme Court Justice, best known for arguing the historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education.

Accepted Answer

Thurgood Marshall

Question 4

The first woman and first woman of color to serve as the Vice President of the United States.

Accepted Answer

Kamala Harris

Question 5

"The mother of the civil rights movement," Her arrest on 12/1/1955 led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Accepted Answer

Rosa Parks

Question 6

An enslaved person, became a preacher and made history as the leader of one of the bloodiest enslaved revolts in the US.

Accepted Answer

Nat Turner

Question 7

A businesswoman and philanthropist who was one of the first black female millionaires in the United States.

Accepted Answer

Madame CJ Walker

Question 8

What politician got arrested over 20 times and said "Get in Good Trouble?"

Accepted Answer

John Lewis

Question 9

Talk show host, media executive, actress and billionaire philanthropist, born Orpah Gail.

Accepted Answer

Oprah Winfrey

Question 10

Who said, "Black Americans will have the right to defend themselves through any means necessary."

Accepted Answer

Malcolm Little

Question 11

This actress from and the author of THE COLOR PURPLE

Accepted Answer

Oprah Winfrey, Alice Walker

Question 12

Cassius Clay is known to us as...

Accepted Answer

Muhammad Ali

Question 13

Was the Underground Railroad, actually a railroad?

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

This is the "King of Pop!"

Accepted Answer

Michael Jackson

Question 15

Author of short stories, poems and novels including, The Color Purple.

Accepted Answer

Alice Walker

Question 16

Led the movement to end segregation and counter prejudice in the United States through the means of peaceful protest.

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 17

Escaped slavery in 1849, returned repeatedly to bring others to freedom as a conductor of the Underground Railroad.

Accepted Answer

Harriet Tubman

Question 18

The first African American child to desegregate William Frantz Elementary School in Mississippi, age 6.

Accepted Answer

Ruby Bridges

Question 19

Born March 7, 1998, Los Angeles, California. Read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the 2021 inauguration Pres. Joe Biden.

Accepted Answer

Amanda Gorman

Question 20

He was the first American track and field athlete to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games.

Accepted Answer

Jesse Owens

Question 21

What politician got arrested over 20 times and said "Get in Good Trouble?"

Accepted Answer

John Lewis

Question 22

With a combined total of 32 Olympic and World Championship medals, she is tied as the most decorated gymnast of all time

Accepted Answer

Simone Biles

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