AFRICAN AMERICANS Challenge #3

AFRICAN AMERICANS Challenge #3

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Welcome to the AFRICAN AMERICANS Challenge #3!

     Good luck!

 

1. 

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

2. 

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

3. 

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

4. 

What famous Toni Morrison book won the Pulitzer Prize?

5. 

Who is called the “Picasso of Jazz”?

6. 

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

7. 

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

8. 

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

9. 

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

10. 

Who is known as the “King of Pop”?

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!