AFRICAN AMERICANS Challenge #2

AFRICAN AMERICANS Challenge #2

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Welcome to the AFRICAN AMERICANS Challenge #2!

     Good luck!

1. 

Who founded Black Entertainment Television (BET), the first cable TV network specifically for African Americans?

2. 

Who devoted his life to abolish slavery?

3. 

Whose birth name was Andre Romelle Young?

4. 

What was Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech called?

5. 

Who said, "Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today"?

6. 

Who worked for NASA as a 'human computer,' whose calculations were critical to the success of early space travel missions?

7. 

Who did President Barack Obama refer to as 'The Godmother of the Civil Rights Movement"?

8. 

Who said, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress"?

9. 

Who followed Gandhi's philosophy of non-violent protests and encouraged, for instance, student sit-ins?

10. 

Who - like Rosa Parks - refused to give up her seat on a bus, helping lead to the Montgomery (AL) bus boycott?

Feel free to take the challenge as many times as you would like, and enter your name and email below if you would like us to send you your results!