Black History Month

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In the book Courage Has No Color, America’s first black paratroopers were fighting in _________________________ (which war).

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World War II, World War 2

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Where did Charlotte Forten, a free African-American teenager, live before the Civil War? Options: Massachusetts, West Virginia, Virginia, Connecticut

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Massachusetts

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Bessie Coleman, a Black and Native American woman, was the first to earn her international pilot’s license in 1921 (two years BEFORE Amelia Earhart!) from ________________ (which country).

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France

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The Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American flying unit in the American military, flew more than ___________ missions.

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1,500, 1500, fifteen hundred, one thousand five hundred

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How old is the African-American female narrator in Kadir Nelson's Heart and Soul?

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100

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Susie King Taylor was one of the first black nurses during the Civil War. She treated soldiers from the 1st ____________ _____________ Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

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South Carolina

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In the book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, the family facing discrimination lives in _________________ (which state).

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Mississippi

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Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden were black female mathematicians known as “____________________________”.

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human computers

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Who did Kareem Abdul-Jabbar say invented the microphone in your cell phone?

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James West

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In the book Port Chicago 50, a massive explosion rocked a segregated navy base on which date?

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July 17, 1944