Black History Month Powerpoint Quiz Game

8/9/2019 Black History Month Powerpoint Quiz Game

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Th.Martin Luther

King, Jr. gave this

speech

at the March onWashington for

Jobs and

Freedom on

August 28, 1963.


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Thurgood

Marshall was

the lawyer in

thisFamous

Supreme

Court Case.


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This amendment to the United States

Constitution prohibited the government

denying a citizen the right to vote basedon that citizens race, color, or previous

condition of servitude.


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The first African American

President of the United States.


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This iconic, blind rhythm & blues

singer died in 2004.


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This controversial activist, assassinated in 1965,

was the author of the speech,The Ballot or the Bullet,

which exhorted African Americans to vote.


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This scientist, educator, botanist, and inventor

was an early advocate of sustainableagriculture. He suggested the peanut as an

alternative crop to cotton.


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This Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet

is the author of We Real Cool.

We real cool. We

Left school. We

Lurk late. WeStrike straight. We

Sing sin. We

T

hin gin. We

Jazz June. We

Die soon.


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This heavyweight boxing champions

nickname was the Brown Bomber.


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This famous African American educator

was the head of the Tuskegee Institutein Alabama for many years.


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The first African-American

Major League BaseballPlayer of the modern era


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The firstAfrican

American to

opena season at

the

MetropolitanOpera


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This man, along with Peary and four Inuit

assistants, was the first to reach the North Pole.


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A movement to end the slave trade

And emancipate slaves in western

Europe and the Americas.


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This former slave was killed

during the Boston Massacre.


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This former

slave rescued

over 70

slaves on 13

separate

missions

using the

UndergroundRailroad.


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In her book, Warriors Dont Cry,

Melba Pattillo Beals tells what it

was like to integrate this school.


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This man, born a slave in Saint-Domingue,

led enslaved Africans against Europeansin the Haitian Revolution.


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The acronym NAACP stands for this.


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This black nationalist groups confrontational

tactics often overshadowed its political

goals and community programs.


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The only

player in NBA

history toscore 100

points in a

single game.


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This singers nickname is

the hardest working man in

show business.


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One of the names for the unique

dialect used by many African-Americans

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Black History Month Powerpoint Quiz Game