| Question | Answer |
| Who was the leader of a non-violent moment and first black to have a national holiday? | Martin Luther King Junior
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Who founded her own college? | Mary McCleod Bethune
| Who is called the "Father of Black History?" | Carter G. Woodson
| Who was the first black to run for president? | Jesse Jackson
| William Dubois was a smart student and hoped to study in what college? | Harvard University
| Who was the first black to graduate from Yale? | Edward Alexander Bouchet
| Who was the first black woman doctor in the US? | Susan McKinney
| Who was the first A-A to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel? | Annie Edson Taylor
| When did Martin King lead the March on Washington and give his "I Have a Dream" speech? | 1963
| When did Dr King's house was bombed? | January 30, 1956
| What is Bessie Smith famous for? | The first A-A licensed pilot.
| Who is Shirley Chisholm? | the first black congresswoman
| Who founded Famous Amos Cookies? | Wally "Famous" Amos
| Why was February chosen as Black History Month? | It was chosen in honor of Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln who were both born in February
| stamp? | Booker T. Washington
| African American man to become a billionaire? | Robert L. Johnson
| Lewis Latimer | Invented the carbon filament for the incandescent light bulb. Worked with Thomas Edison.
| Elijah McCoy | Black Canadian-American inventor who had 57 U.S. patients, most notable for his work with the lubrication of steam engines.
| Norbert Rilleux | Invented the multiple-effect evaporator.
| Madame C.J Walker | Created Black cosmetic products. First woman to become a millionaire.
| George Washington Carver | African American inventor, scientist, botanist and educator. His reputation is based on his outstanding research with soybeans, sweet potatoes and peanuts.
| J. Standard | African-American inventor of the refrigerator.
| Rebecca Lee Crumpler | First African American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
| Lewis Temple | African American inventor, blacksmith and abolitionist. He invented the toggling pole that was used on whaling expeditions.
| Mae C. Jamieson | First African American woman to become an astronaut.
| Jan Matzeliger | Invented the shoe assembly machines; helped with the mass production of shoes.
| Ronald McNair | Was a NASA astronaut and physicist; he died on the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986.
| Guion Bluford | Engineer, NASA engineer; became the first African American in space.
| A. Ashbourne | Inventor of the biscuit cutter.
| Dr. Theodore Lawless | African American dermatologist, philanthropist and medical researcher, known for his work with syphilis and leprosy.
| Granville T. Woods (1856-1910) | Invented the multiplex Railway telegraph.
| Percy Julian (1899-1975) | Developed the sympathetic form of cortisone.
| Dr. Daniel Hale Williams | first African American Cardiologist. He performed one of the first open-heart surgeries in the U.S.
| Garrett Morgan | Invented the gas mask and the traffic light.
| Dr. Charles Drew | African American physician, researcher, and surgeon. Pioneered methods in blood transfusions and blood plasma.
| Sarah Boone | Inventor of the ironing board.
| Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) | Mathematician, surveyor, and astronomer, invented the wooden clock in 1753, surveyed original boundaries of Washington D.C., and authored an almanac.
| Charles Brooks | Invented the street sweeper.
| Sarah Goode | Received and invented a patent for the folding cabinet bed. First African American woman to receive a patent.
| Lonnie Johnson | American engineer who invented the Super Soaker, the top-selling toy in 1991 and 1992. This was done while researching thermal transfer energy. He holds over 80 patents.
| Ernest Just | Worked with the plasma membrane of biological cells.
| Dr. Alexa Canday | Medical doctor specializing in neurosurgery. First African American woman to become a neurosurgeon in 1981.
| Dr. Ben Carson | African American neurosurgeon who was first to successfully separate a pair of twins who were jointed at the head.
| Dr. Justina Ford | Became Colorado's first African American doctor of Obstetrician.
| Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson | The first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. from MIT and a doctorate in physics.
| Mark E. Dean | One of the top engineering minds at the International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation. He made his first mark in the industry in the early 1980s, when he and a colleague developed a system that allowed computers to communicate with printers and other devices.
| Percy L. Julian | Known as the "soybean chemist", for his extraordinary success in developing innovative drugs and industrial chemicals from natural soya products |
