Black History Month Quiz #
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Minnie Joycelyn Elders
First Black Surgeon
General of the United
States. Appointed to the
Cabinet under President
Bill Clinton from
9-1993 to 12-31-1994
Dr. Charles Drew
A pioneering AfricanAmerican medical
doctor and researcher,
Dr. Drew made some
groundbreaking
discoveries in the
banking and
processing of blood for
transfusions.
Alice Walker
Ms. Walker is a poet,
author, and novelist.
Alice Walker won the
1983 Pulitzer Prize
for Fiction with her
1982 novel, The
Color Purple.
Attorney Obama
44th President Barack
Obama gave his $1.4
million 2009 Nobel
Peace Prize money to
Haiti Fund, UNCF, and
other charities.
Obama Cares!
Thurgood Marshall
As NAACP counsel,
Marshall won the Brown
v. Board of Education
case. Marshall was the
first black appointed to
the Supreme Court in
1967, serving 24 years.
Toussaint L’Ouverture
Toussaint is known as The
Black Napoleon! With no
formal military training
Toussaint, a slave, drove one
of the world’s fiercest
generals, Napoleon, out of
Haiti; leading his country to
independence in 1794!
Doris “Dorie Raging
Bull” Miller
First black sailor to receive
the Navy Cross for
distinguished devotion to
duty, extraordinary courage,
and disregard of his personal
safety during the attack on
Pearl Harbor, 12-07-1941.
Dr. Ronald McNair
Physicist & Astronaut
was selected as shuttle
mission specialist in
August of 1979. Dr.
McNair lost his life in
the Challenger
explosion.
Sanya Richards-Ross
Sanya became the
most decorated female
track and field Gold
Medal Olympian of all
times from 2002 to
2012! She set the world
records in both the 200
and 400 meters relays.
Dr. Alex Jefferson
A Tuskegee Airman
who served in World
War II Red Tail of the
332nd Fighter Group.
This POW and author is
a member of Conant
Avenue UMC.