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BHB Practice
Practice Cards for the 2010 Black History Bee
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Born Cassius Clay | Muhammad Ali |
| Won Gold medal in the 1960 Olympics | Muhammad Ali |
| Knocked out rival Sonny Liston in 1964 | Muhammad Ali |
| Refused, on religious grounds, to enter the armed forces and fight in Vietnam and lost title | Muhammad Ali |
| Regained title by beating Joe Friazer and George Foreman | Muhammad Ali |
| Lit Olympic torch in 1996 Summer Games | Muhammad Ali |
| Named “Sportsman of the Century” by Sports Illustrated | Muhammad Ali |
| Currently suffers from Parkinson’s disease | Muhammad Ali |
| Has raised over $45 million for their Parkinson Center | Muhammad Ali |
| Tennis player | Arthur Ashe |
| First black winner of major men’s singles championship | Arthur Ashe |
| Competed in U.S. open 1968Won Davis Cup and Wimbledon Singles against Jimmy Connors | Arthur Ashe |
| Author of A Hard Road to Glory | Arthur Ashe |
| Wrote a book about African Americans in sports | Arthur Ashe |
| Opera singer of 1930’s | Marian Anderson |
| Denied chance to perform at Constitution Hall in Washington D.C. because black (1939) | Marian Anderson |
| Eleanor Roosevelt Resigned for her post in the DAR when this person wasn’t allowed to perform at Constitution Hall (owned by the DAR-Daughters of the American Revolution) | Marian Anderson |
| 75,000 people came to see them sing on Easter Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial | Marian Anderson |
| Well known author and poet | Maya Angelou |
| Best known for “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” | Maya Angelou |
| Biography talks about growing up during the Great Depression | Maya Angelou |
| In 1993 invited to speak at Pres. Clinton’s Inauguration Ceremony | Maya Angelou |
| Read poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at inauguration | Maya Angelou |
| From New Orleans | Louis Armstrong |
| Nicknamed “Satchmo” | Louis Armstrong |
| Plays jazzy tunes on trumpet | Louis Armstrong |
| Sings with a gruff voice | Louis Armstrong |
| Has recorded many albums and made more than 50 movies | Louis Armstrong |
| Best known for 1968 single “What a wonderful World” | Louis Armstrong |
| Died of a heart attack in 1971 | Louis Armstrong |
| Built first clock in the U.S after one look at a pocket watch | Benjamin Banneker |
| Their Clock kept perfect time for over 40 yrs. | Benjamin Banneker |
| Astronomer | Benjamin Banneker |
| Correctly predicted the 1789 solar eclipse | Benjamin Banneker |
| President Washington appointed them to a team that planned D.C.’s layout | Benjamin Banneker |
| Had a photographic memory | Benjamin Banneker |
| Published an almanac w/poems and weather info in 1792 | Benjamin Banneker |
| First African American astronaut in space | Guion Bluford |
| On space shuttle “Challenger” (1983) | Guion Bluford |
| “Challenger” mission= first with a night launch and landing, lasted 6 days | Guion Bluford |
| Together with their crew launched a weather satellite | Guion Bluford |
| Trained to fly with Air Force | Guion Bluford |
| Flew combat missions in Vietnam | Guion Bluford |
| Logged over 688 hours in space before retirement | Guion Bluford |
| Attended school by order of a judge (1960) | Ruby Bridges |
| Attended Frantz Elementary, an all white school, in New Orleans (Age 6) | Ruby Bridges |
| Angry mobs tried to prevent them from going to school | Ruby Bridges |
| Escorted by armed federal marshals after Pres. Dwight Eisenhower’s order | Ruby Bridges |
| Taught by Mrs. Henry | Ruby Bridges |
| Teacher prayed for forgiveness for those who harassed this person | Ruby Bridges |
| Popular poet at a young age | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Poems featured in popular magazines when very young | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Chicago Native | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Received Pulitzer Prize | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Received Lifetime Achievement Award | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Received the National Endowments for the Arts Award | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Received the National Endowments for the Arts Award | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Mother told them “The doors of the world are open to people who can read.” | Ben Carson |
| Graduated from Yale and University of Michigan Medical School | Ben Carson |
| Interests in the brain and surgery led to becoming a neurosurgeon | Ben Carson |
| Dedicated life to healing children | Ben Carson |
| At 33 (1984) became director of pediatric surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland | Ben Carson |
| Became internationally known after separating conjoined twins, a surgery taking 24 hrs. | Ben Carson |
| Developed over 300 products from peanuts including coffee, butter, adhesives, shampoo, face powder, ink, and vinegar. | George Washington Carver |
| Taught Southern farmers that growing crops besides cotton could help the farm land | George Washington Carver |
| Taught at Tuskegee University in Alabama | George Washington Carver |
| Was offered jobs from Henry Ford and Thomas Edison | George Washington Carver |
| Chose to stay in Tuskegee and help improve the lives of black farmers | George Washington Carver |
| Born in Brooklyn, New York | Shirley Chisholm |
| Grew up on grandmother’s farm | Shirley Chisholm |
| Became a teacher after college | Shirley Chisholm |
| Became first black woman in the US congress (1968) | Shirley Chisholm |
| Served 14 yrs. in Congress | Shirley Chisholm |
| Tried unsuccessfully to become president in 1972, (lost the democratic nomination to George McGovern). | Shirley Chisholm |
| Born on plantation in Massachusetts | Frederick Douglas |
| Poorly treated slave until escape to Philadelphia disguised as a sailor | Frederick Douglas |
| Began speaking and writing publicly about evils of slavery | Frederick Douglas |
| Published the first anti-slavery magazine The North Star | Frederick Douglas |
| Convinced Lincoln to accept black soldiers in Union Army | Frederick Douglas |
| Spoke out about education, land ownership, and civil rights for the newly freed people | Frederick Douglas |
| Studied 4 types of human blood and how to preserve it | Charles Richard Drew |
| Discovered and became an expert on collecting, storing, processing, and shipping blood plasma | Charles Richard Drew |
| Developed blood banks | Charles Richard Drew |
| Their methods helped save lives of thousands of soldiers during WWII | Charles Richard Drew |
| Became director of the Red Cross blood collection | Charles Richard Drew |
| Gifted scholar, writer, and advocate of human rights | W.E.B. DuBois |
| Considered on of the most influential black leaders of their time | W.E.B. DuBois |
| Was one of the founders of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) in 1909. | W.E.B. DuBois |
| Nicknamed “Duke” | Edward Ellington |
| Got their nickname for the flashy way they dressed | Edward Ellington |
| Famous as a musician, composer, and band leader | Edward Ellington |
| Band named The Washingtonians | Edward Ellington |
| Played Harlem’s Cotton Club | Edward Ellington |
| Played opera houses in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco | Edward Ellington |
| Singer known as the “Queen of Soul” | Aretha Franklin |
| Diva of pop music | Aretha Franklin |
| Well known for 1967 hit “Respect” | Aretha Franklin |
| Sold millions of albums and won 15 grammy awards | Aretha Franklin |
| In 1987 was the first female performer inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | Aretha Franklin |
| In 2009 sang “America the Beautiful” at President Obama’s Inauguration | Aretha Franklin |
| Invented the folding cabinet bed | Sarah Goode |
| Their space-saver folded up against the wall for people living in small apartments | Sarah Goode |
| Was the first Afr. Am. Woman inventor to ever receive a patent (1885) | Sarah Goode |
| Owned and operated a furniture story in Chicago | Sarah Goode |
| Opened their own record store in Detroit | Barry Gordy |
| In 1959 founded Motown Records | Barry Gordy |
| Record company earned its first gold record with Smokey Robinson’s hit “Shop Around” | Barry Gordy |
| Also records for The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, and the Jackson Five | Barry Gordy |
| In 1909 became the first person ever to reach the North Pole | Matthew Henson |
| Placed and American flag mark on the N. Pole to mark accomplishment | Matthew Henson |
| Traveled with Robert Peary by dog sled with Eskimo Guides | Matthew Henson |
| Was the best dog sled driver, so they led the team | Matthew Henson |
| Partner moved more slowly due to frostbite on his toes | Matthew Henson |
| Was awarded the congressional Medal of Honor in 1944 | Matthew Henson |
| Best known for poetry writings, but also wrote plays, biographies, stories and televistion scripts | Langston Hughes |
| Poems celebrate the ordinary black people, the people they respected | Langston Hughes |
| Strong black pride flows through all their work | Langston Hughes |
| In 1960 the NAACP declared them “Poet Laureate of the Negro Race” | Langston Hughes |
| Born in Chicago (1956) | Mae Jemison |
| First black woman to travel in space | Mae Jemison |
| On the Space shuttle Endeavor | Mae Jemison |
| Graduated from Stanford University and Cornell University | Mae Jemison |
| Joined NASA space program in 1987 | Mae Jemison |
| Instructor of Dartmouth University in New Hampshire | Mae Jemison |
| Head of a Publishing Company | John Johnson |
| Started “Ebony” magazine (1945) | John Johnson |
| Company is largest black-owned publishing company in the world | John Johnson |
| Started “Jet” magazine (1951) | John Johnson |
| Chairman and founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET) | Robert Johnson |
| Graduate of the University of Illinois (1968) | Robert Johnson |
| One of the richest and most influential figures in American media | Robert Johnson |
| Created the first and only cable network targeted to African Americans | Robert Johnson |
| Company became the first black-owned firm to go onto the New York Stock Exchange (1991) | Robert Johnson |
| Was a great composer and pianist | Scott Joplin |
| Learned to play piano on own as a child in Texas | Scott Joplin |
| Played and composed ragtime music | Scott Joplin |
| Wrote 2 operas | Scott Joplin |
| Composed over 60 songs including “The Entertainer” | Scott Joplin |
| Graduated from Texas Southern University and Boston University | Barbara Jordon |
| First Black female State senator ever elected | Barbara Jordon |
| In 1966 served the state of Texas | Barbara Jordon |
| Worked for 12 years as a member of congress | Barbara Jordon |
| Left public office to teach at University of Texas | Barbara Jordon |
| In 1995 received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Pres. Bill Clinton | Barbara Jordon |
| Born in Atlanta, GA | Martin Luther King |
| Attended Morehouse College | Martin Luther King |
| Ordained as a Baptist Minister | Martin Luther King |
| Studied teaching of Mahatma Gandhi | Martin Luther King |
| Promoted the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1956 | Martin Luther King |
| In 1964 was awarded the Noble Peace Prize | Martin Luther King |
| Led the Famous March on Washington D.C. | Martin Luther King |
| Gave “I have a Dream” speech to over 250,000 people | Martin Luther King |
| Speech gave new energy to the civil rights movement | Martin Luther King |
| On April 4, 1968 was shot and killed by James Earl Ray | Martin Luther King |
| Laid to rest at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta | Martin Luther King |
| The National Holiday celebrating their birthday was signed into law by Pres. Ronald Reagan in 1986 | Martin Luther King |
| Became first black supreme court justice in 1967. | Thurgood Marshall |
| Appointed by Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson | Thurgood Marshall |
| Best known for their work as the lawyer of the NAACP in Brown vs. Board of Education | Thurgood Marshall |
| Argued segregated schools were against the law and won, opening schools to all students | Thurgood Marshall |
| Brilliant inventor who invented the gas mask that helps firefighters work longer in fires | Garret Morgan |
| Invented the 3-way traffic light | Garret Morgan |
| Patented automatic traffic light in 1923 | Garret Morgan |
| Sold invention to General Electric for $40,000. | Garret Morgan |
| Current U.S. President | Barack Obama |
| Former US Senator of Illinois | Barack Obama |
| Born in Hawaii and lived in Indonesia | Barack Obama |
| Graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School | Barack Obama |
| Published two best-selling books: Dreams from my Father and The Audacity of Hope | Barack Obama |
| Campaigned against Hilary Clinton for Democratic nomination for Pres. in 2008 election | Barack Obama |
| Select Joseph Biden as running mate and eventual Vice Pres. | Barack Obama |
| Defeated John McCain and Sarah Palin | Barack Obama |
| Major issues currently being faced: recession and health care reform | Barack Obama |
| At age 22 won 4 gold medals in track and field events in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany | Jesse Owens |
| Adolph Hitler was Nazi leader of Germany when they competed in Olympics in Berlin. | Jesse Owens |
| Hitler was convinced that Germans were the “master race” | Jesse Owens |
| Set new world records that made Hitler furious | Jesse Owens |
| Their victories helped demonstrate how athletic competition can improve racial problems and bring people together | Jesse Owens |
| Refused to give up seat to white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, even knowing punishment was likely | Rosa Parks |
| Broke a 1955 law | Rosa Parks |
| Their peaceful protest helped spark the civil rights movement of the 1960’s | Rosa Parks |
| Boycott that resulted from their action lasted just over 1 year (381) days and the law changed | Rosa Parks |
| Made history even after their death in 2005 at age of 92 by becoming the first woman to lie in state at the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C. | Rosa Parks |
| Drafted by the Chicago Bears in 1975 | Walter Payton |
| Played w/ Bears until 1987 | Walter Payton |
| Often considered the greatest running back in the history of football | Walter Payton |
| Held many records for rushing the football | Walter Payton |
| Was active in local charities | Walter Payton |
| Son, Jarrett gave speech at this person’s induction into the Football Hall of Fame | Walter Payton |
| Died in 1999 of a rare liver disease | Walter Payton |
| Their death increased awareness of the importance of organ donation | Walter Payton |
| Known as one of the West’s most exciting cowboys | Bill Pickett |
| Worked on the 101 Ranch in Oklahoma | Bill Pickett |
| Worked with Will Rodgers | Bill Pickett |
| Perfected the art of steer wrestling | Bill Pickett |
| Performed in rodeo shows in London, New York City, and Mexico City. | Bill Pickett |
| Was the first black actor to win an Oscar award | Sidney Poitier |
| Won an Oscar for role in “Lillies of the Field” (1963 film) | Sidney Poitier |
| Best known for portrayal of a black doctor who plans to marry a white woman in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” | Sidney Poitier |
| Co-starred with Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in a movie that was the first to deal with the situation of interracial relationships. | Sidney Poitier |
| Became the 1st black U.S. secretary of State in 2001 | Colin Powell |
| Formerly chairman of the U.S. Join Chiefs of Staff- the highest military post in the U.S. | Colin Powell |
| 4 start general that played a leading role in Operation Desert Storm in the Persian Gulf | Colin Powell |
| In 2005 was sworn in as the U.S. Secretary of State, following Colin Powell | Condoleeza Rice |
| Appointed in 2001 to be the National Security Advisor by Pres. George W. Bush | Condoleeza Rice |
| Before taking high ranking government positions, was a professor of political Science at Stanford University | Condoleeza Rice |
| Started college at age 15 at the University of Denver | Condoleeza Rice |
| Got Master’s Degree from University of Notre Dame. | Condoleeza Rice |
| Son of a slave who escaped on the Underground Railroad | Paul Robeson |
| Brilliant student and talented athlete | Paul Robeson |
| Only the 3rd black person admitted to Rutgers University | Paul Robeson |
| Earned 12 varsity letters in baseball, football, basketball, and track | Paul Robeson |
| Elected Phi Beta Kappa, a national honor society for outstanding students | Paul Robeson |
| Graduated Valedictorian | Paul Robeson |
| Earned a law degree in just 2 yrs., but was most interested in acting | Paul Robeson |
| Played Joe in the musical “Showboat” | Paul Robeson |
| Had a popular rendition of “Ol’ Man River” | Paul Robeson |
| Starred in Shakespeare’s “Othello” in England to sold out crowds | Paul Robeson |
| First black man to play on a Major League Baseball Team | Jackie Robinson |
| Signed by Branch Ricky to Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945 | Jackie Robinson |
| Played for Kansas City Monarchs (a Negro National League team) | Jackie Robinson |
| Often treated badly by other players and fans | Jackie Robinson |
| Named Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player, and inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame | Jackie Robinson |
| This person’s success and personal strength paved the way for other black Americans | Jackie Robinson |
| Was told at the age of 4 that they would never walk again | Wilma Rudolph |
| In 1960 Olympics in Rome won 3 gold medals and the title of world’s fastest woman | Wilma Rudolph |
| Set the world record of 22.9 seconds for the 200 meter race | Wilma Rudolph |
| Became a teacher and Coach | Wilma Rudolph |
| Tremendous voice earned them the title “Empress of the Blues” | Bessie Smith |
| Born in Chattanooga, TN | Bessie Smith |
| Sang with famous blues singer Ma Rainey | Bessie Smith |
| Soon became the highest paid blues singer in the county | Bessie Smith |
| Their 1923 record “Down Hearted Blues” sold 2 million copies | Bessie Smith |
| Played college basketball for Texas Tech University | Sheryl Swoopes |
| Scored 47 points in the National Championship game | Sheryl Swoopes |
| Earned 3 Olympic Gold medals with the US women’s basketball team in 1996, 2000, and 2004 | Sheryl Swoopes |
| Was one of the first women drafted to play professionally in the WNBA with the Houston Comets | Sheryl Swoopes |
| Lead the Comets to 4 consecutive championships | Sheryl Swoopes |
| Very dramatic and effective speaker | Sojourner Truth |
| Traveled across county giving speeches on slavery and women’s rights | Sojourner Truth |
| Changed their name to Isabella Baumfree after escaping slavery | Sojourner Truth |
| Famoust speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” was given at the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention | Sojourner Truth |
| Could not read or write, but gave powerful speeches | Sojourner Truth |
| Was invited to the White House by Abraham Lincoln | Sojourner Truth |
| “The Moses of her people” | Harriet Tubman |
| Helped bring over 300 slaves to freedom using the Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman |
| Helped slaves escape by traveling from one safe place to another until they reached the free North | Harriet Tubman |
| Led own parents to freedom | Harriet Tubman |
| Made 19 rescue trips and was never caught | Harriet Tubman |
| Served as a nurse and spy for the Union army during the Civil War | Harriet Tubman |
| In 1978 the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp in this person’s honor | Harriet Tubman |
| While living in St. Louis, discovered that their hair was falling out so they created a mixture to cure the problem. | Madame C. J. Walker |
| Began selling their product door to door | Madame C. J. Walker |
| Business grew and expanded to Denver, Colorado | Madame C. J. Walker |
| Became famous for hair care products | Madame C. J. Walker |
| In 1910 opened a factory in Indianapolis that employed 5,000 black women | Madame C. J. Walker |
| Became America’s first black female millionaire | Madame C. J. Walker |
| Part owner of a Memphis newspaper called “Free Speech” | Ida B. Wells |
| Journalist who spoke out against the action of lynching, or hanging, of black men | Ida B. Wells |
| Wrote angry articles and even published names of men responsible for hangings | Ida B. Wells |
| Co-founder of the NAACP in 1909 with W.E.B. DuBois | Ida B. Wells |
| Kidnapped by slave traders at age 8 and brought to America | Phyllis Wheatly |
| Purchased by a family who soon realized they were very intelligent | Phyllis Wheatly |
| Learned to read and write which was disallowed for most slaves | Phyllis Wheatly |
| Became known internationally as a gifted poet during the Revolutionary War period | Phyllis Wheatly |
| Their poems were recognized by John Hancock and George Washington | Phyllis Wheatly |
| Died at age 31 | Phyllis Wheatly |
| Popular television personality | Oprah Winfrey |
| Got first big break hosting the talk show “AM Chicago” which was renamed in 1985 | Oprah Winfrey |
| Their intelligence, honesty, and engaging personality attracted a wide audience | Oprah Winfrey |
| Projects including a book club and The Angel Network promote literacy and philanthropy | Oprah Winfrey |
| First black woman to obtain billionaire status | Oprah Winfrey |
| In 1893 became a surgeon who did the world’s first successful heart operation | Daniel Hale Williams |
| Opened a hospital in Chicago to provide medical training for black doctors and nurses | Daniel Hale Williams |
| Opened over 40 hospitals for black patients since many hospitals only provided help to white patients | Daniel Hale Williams |
| Known as “The Black Edison” | Granville T. Woods |
| Brilliant inventore received over 60 patents for inventions | Granville T. Woods |
| Patented the telephone transmitter which the American Bella Company bought the rights to | Granville T. Woods |
| Created the electric egg incubator | Granville T. Woods |
| Invented the automatic air brake system increasing railroad safety | Granville T. Woods |
| Other inventions made the “third rail” on subway systems possible | Granville T. Woods |
| Made a transmitter for sending messages between trains and stations improving safety and communication | Granville T. Woods |
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