4th Grade Black History Bowl Quiz

I am the first African American to have my art work featured at the Museum of Modern Art.

Even though I lost my sight, I became a musical star at the age of 12.

• Michael Jackson

• Stevie Wonder

• Helen Keller

• Mae Jemison

I helped to free over 300 slaves.

• Rosa Parks

• Harriet Tubman

• Maya Angelou

• Mae Jemison

I invented over 300 uses for the peanut.

• George Washigton Carver

• Langston Hughes

• Clementine Hunter

• Alma Thomas

I am the first African American woman to become an astronaut.

I am the first African American president of the United States.

• Kamala Harris

• George Washington

• Joe Biden

• Barack Obama

“ The American Dream belongs to all of us.”

• George Washington Carver

• Kamala Harris

• Garrett A. Morgan

• Langston Hughes

Invented the street letter box.

• Thomas Edison

• Philip Bell Downing

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Benjamin Franklin

“Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind.”

These words were said by...

• Mae Jemison

• Clementine Hunter

• Rosa Parks

• Ann Lowe

I wrote the book Roots, that became a television mini-series.