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| Enchanted Learning African-American Heroes: Quiz Answers |
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1. What is the name of the great civil rights leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize and was assassinated in 1968? Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. What is the name of the first African-American who served on the US Supreme Court? Thurgood Marshall
3. What is the name of the woman who helped hundreds of other escaped slaves flee to freedom in the North via the Underground Railroad? Harriet Tubman
4. What is the name of the Haitian-French pioneer and trader who founded the settlement that would later become Chicago? Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable
5. What is the name of the scientist who developed hundreds of products from peanuts, sweet potatoes, pecans, and soybeans, revolutionizing agriculture in the South? George Washington Carver
6. What is the name of the scientist who developed the idea of the blood bank, saving innumerable human lives? Dr. Charles Richard Drew
7. What is the name of the explorer and colleague of Robert E. Peary who was in the first group of people to visit the North Pole? Matthew Alexander Henson
8. What is the name of the ex-slave who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama? Booker T. Washington
9. What is the name of the first African-American woman to go into space? Mae C. Jemison
10. What is the name of the first African-American to play major league baseball? Jackie Robinson
11. What is the name of the woman who refused to give up her bus seat, prompting a city-wide bus boycott? This eventually resulted in a Supreme Court ruling that segregation on city buses is unconstitutional. Rosa Parks
12. What is the name of the African-American athlete who won many medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympic games? Jesse Owens
13. What is the name of the inventor whose high-quality industrial inventions were the basis for the expression "the real McCoy"? Elijah McCoy
14. What is the name of the first African-American woman to be elected as a U.S. congresswoman from the deep South? Barbara Jordan
15. What is the name of the slave who sued for his freedom and lost, in a major Supreme Court case before the Civil War? Dred Scott
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