Take a blank answer sheet. Read each clue. Each clue tells about a famous black American from the list below. Click on the names below and it will take you to an Internet site where you can read a short biography about that person. On the line next to each clue, write the name of the person the clue tells about. Turn this paper into your teacher.
1. _______________This person became president of Tuskegee Institute and it became one of the leading facilities for black education in the United States.
2. _______________This person visited President Abraham Lincoln in the White House during the Civil War.
3. _______________This person refused to give up her seat on a public bus. This led to a 382-day bus boycott by black people in Montgomery, Alabama.
4. _______________This scientist researched and found over 300 uses for the peanut and over 100 uses for the sweet potato.
5. _______________ This person rescued her sister and her two children- and many, many others- from slavery as a conductor of the Underground Railroad.
6. _______________ This person was a doctor who spent two years working with poor people in Africa before she became the first black female in space.
7. _______________ This person started a newspaper called “The North Star,” that helped fight slavery.
8. _______________ The President named this person to be the first black to hold a seat on the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land.
9. _______________ In his first year playing baseball, this person was named “Rookie of the Year.” He hit 12 home runs that year and had a .297 batting average.
10. _______________ This person’s performance at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games earned four gold medals for the United States.
11. _______________ This person led slaves in a Virginia revolt that killed many white people and he was hung.
12. _______________ This person, was the first African American female pilot, who died in a plane crash while practicing for an air show.
13. _______________ This person, who was a famous writer of piano music, was known as the “King of Ragtime.”
14. _______________ On New Year's Eve this Pittsburgh Pirate's plane crashed taking medical, food and clothing supplies to earthquake stricken Nicaragua.
15. _______________ This person, a well-known trumpet player, also introduced a new kind of singing called scat that used sounds instead of words.
16. _______________ This person attended the University of California on a tennis scholarship.
17. _______________ This person was a teacher in Mississippi at the age of 14, before she became a well-known journalist.
18. _______________ This person was appointed by President George Washington to help survey the land that would become Washington, D.C.
19. _______________ This person was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949.
20. _______________ This person wrote proudly of black people in books, poems, and plays.