AFRICAN AMERICANS Challenge #3

AFRICAN AMERICANS Challenge #3

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Welcome to the AFRICAN AMERICANS Challenge #3!

     Good luck!

 

1. 

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

2. 

Who is called the “Picasso of Jazz”?

3. 

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

4. 

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

5. 

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

6. 

Who is known as the “King of Pop”?

7. 

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

8. 

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

9. 

What famous Toni Morrison book won the Pulitzer Prize?

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!