Thursday, February 19, 2004

Throughout the month of February, we celebrate Black History Month. Can you determine why the following people and events are important?

1. Why is George Washington Carver famous?

2. Who was Crispus Attucks?

3. Who wrote "In the Land of Jim Crow"?

4. Why is Nat Turner famous?

5. Why was the U.S. Supreme Court Amistad case noteworthy?

6. Why is Harriet Tubman famous?

7. What was the infamous event at Fort Pillow, Tenn., in 1864?

8. How many black soldiers received the Congressional Medal of Honor for service in the Civil War?

9. Who developed the first system of successfully storing blood plasma?

10. Who was the first black judge named to the Supreme Court?

Answers:

1. He was a black innovator in agricultural sciences.
2. A former slave who was killed in the Boston Massacre in 1770.
3. Post-Gazette reporter Ray Sprigle.
4. He led a slave rebellion in 1831.
5. The court ruled the rebelling slaves were free based on international law prohibiting slave trade.
6. She helped slaves escape through the underground railroad.
7. The massacre of 400 black Union troops.

8. 21.
9. Black scientist Charles Drew.
10. Thurgood Marshall.

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