AFRICAN AMERICANS Challenge #3

AFRICAN AMERICANS Challenge #3

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Welcome to the AFRICAN AMERICANS Challenge #3!

     Good luck!

 

1. 

What famous Toni Morrison book won the Pulitzer Prize?

2. 

Who was credited with creating a new type of art form called "Jazz Poetry"?

3. 

Who is known as the “King of Pop”?

4. 

Which Hall of Fame athlete founded Amer-I-Can to help individuals develop life skills?

5. 

What prestigious award was Oprah Winfrey the first female African American to win?

6. 

Who was a prominent civil rights leader and helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?

7. 

Who said, “Mistakes are a fact of life.  It is the response to the error that counts.”

8. 

Which of these athletes did NOT win the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

9. 

Who is called the “Picasso of Jazz”?

10. 

Who said, “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life”?

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!