Black History Challenge Answer Key Worksheet printable pdf download

Black History Challenge Answer Key Worksheet

Black History Challenge Answer Key

1. Phillis Wheatley published a collection of poetry in ____________.

a. 1773

2. ____________ was an inventor who helped design Washington, D.C.

a. Benjamin Banneker

3. Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable is considered the father of ____________.

c. Chicago

4. In 1909,____________ , along with Robert Peary and a group of Inuit guides,

was the first to reach the North Pole.

a. Matthew Henson

5. W.E.B. DuBois was one of the founders of ____________.

a. the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

6. Garrett Morgan invented gas masks and ____________.

a. the automatic traffic light

7. When the Daughters of the American Revolution wouldn’t let her sing in

Constitution Hall in 1939, ____________ gave a concert on the steps of the

Lincoln Memorial.

b. Marian Anderson

8. ____________ was the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

a. Ralph Bunche

9. ____________ was the first African American Supreme Court Justice.

b. Thurgood Marshall

10. In 1993, ____________ won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

c. Toni Morrison

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