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What is the name of the great civil rights leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize and was assassinated in 1968? __________________________________

Martin Luther King Jr.

What is the name of the first African-American who served on the US Supreme Court? __________________________________

Thurgood Marshall

What is the name of the woman who helped hundreds of other escaped slaves flee to freedom in the North via the Underground Railroad? __________________________________

Harriet tubman

What is the name of the Haitian-French pioneer and trader who founded the settlement that would later become Chicago? __________________________________

Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable

What is the name of the scientist who developed hundreds of products from peanuts, sweet potatoes, pecans, and soybeans, revolutionizing agriculture in the South? __________________________________

George Washington Craver

What is the name of the scientist who developed the idea of the blood bank, saving innumerable human lives? __________________________________

Dr. Charles Richard Drew

What is the name of the explorer and colleague of Robert E. Peary who was in the first group of people to visit the North Pole?

Matthew Alexander Henson

What is the name of the ex-slave who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama?

Booker T. Washington

What is the name of the first African-American woman to go into space?

Mae C. Jemison

What is the name of the first African-American to play major league baseball?

Jackie Robinson

What is the name of the woman who refused to give up her bus seat, prompting a city-wide bus boycott? This eventually resulted in a Supreme Court ruling that segregation on city buses is unconstitutional.

Rosa Parks

What is the name of the African-American athlete who won many medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympic games?

Jesse Owens

What is the name of the inventor whose high-quality industrial inventions were the basis for the expression "the real McCoy"?

Elijah McCoy

What is the name of the first African-American woman to be elected as a U.S. congresswoman from the deep South?

Barbara Jordan

What is the name of the slave who sued for his freedom and lost, in a major Supreme Court case before the Civil War?

Dred Scott

Whose arrest led to the end of segregation on public facilities?

Rosa Parks

What future Supreme Court justice argued against separate-but-equal public schools before the U.S. Supreme Court?

Thurgood Marshall

what was the name of the arguement called

brown vs. board of education

In what city were federal troops needed to provide safe passage for nine school kids?

Little Rock, Arkansas

What legislative action, was inspired by a civil rights march in Selma, Alabama?

Voting Right act

Who planned, organized, led, and gave a historic speech at a mass rally in Washington, D.C.?

Martin Luther King Jr.

What type of equality for African Americans was Martin Luther King Jr. seeking at the time of his death?

Econmic rights in 1968

Who was the first player to integrate major league baseball?

Jackie Robinson

What President ended segregation in the U.S. military forces?

Harry S. Truman

Name the first major league baseball team to desegregate.

Brooklyn Dodgers

What widely held segregation practice was defeated by the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education?

separate-but-equal

who is known as Mother Of the Civil Rights Movement

Rosa Parks

Who is the Father of Black History Month

Carter G. Woodson

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