Black History Month

Why did Rosa Parks go to jail in 1955 ?

• She trash talked two white men

• She refused to give up her seat

• She killed a white woman

I was an abolitionist who fought against slavery and for women's rights.  I published an antislavery newspaper called the North Star.  I became a consultant to President Abraham Lincoln.

• Frederick Douglass
• Michael Jackson
• Booker T. Washington
• Michael Jordan

I escaped slavery in Maryland in 1849.  I helped hundreds of slaves travel north on the Underground Railroad.  I also helped John Brown recruit solders for the raid on Harpers Ferry.

• Jackie Robinson
• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks
• Martin Luther King, Jr.

I worked for racial equality.  Many heard my "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.  I was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

• Jackie Robinson
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks

I won four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.  This made Hitler mad because he assumed the Germans were superior.

• Marcus Garvey
• Ruby Bridges
• Langston Hughes
• Jessie Owens

The rights of citizens to social equality, freedom, and political freedom

• civil rights

• heritage

• equality

• segregation

What month is Black History Month?

• March
• January
• February
• October

Who was the first female African-American astronaut?

• Mae C. Jemison

• Guion Bluford

What is a person that wants to end slavery?

• slave

• master

• segregation

• abolitionist

What does it mean to separate people because of their race?

• segregation

• separation

• inclusion

• love