Outstanding African Americans Internet Hunt by Cindy O'Hora
Thurgood Marshall said "Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place."
Click on the blue link or copy and paste the URL into your brower to go to a site with the question's answer. Although the answer is often on the page you are linked to, a few require you to find an appropriate link to another page with the answer.
1. What remarkable speech did Sojourner Truth give to the Women's Rights Convention? Be sure to read the account. http://www.digitalsojourn.org/speech.html
2. How many different occupations did George Washington Carver have during his life? Name 3 of them. http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html
3. When Wilma Rudolf was a child something happened to her that makes her 3 Olympic gold medals all the more amazing. What happen to her? http://myhero.com/sports/rudolph.asp
4. What do you think is Mae Jemison's most remarkable accomplishment? http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/shadow/whos_who_level2/jemison.html
5.Judith Jamison is famous for being a excellent dancer. What did her mother want her to be? http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/alvinailey/html/behind.html
6. What kind of music is Scott Joplin famous for composing? http://www.ddc.com/~decoy/sjop.htm
7. Ernest Just was an expert in what? http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/alvinailey/html/behind.html
8. Toni Morrison has earned two prizes for her writing. What are they? http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/morrison.html
9. In 1988, Arthur Ashe received news which changed his life. What was he told? http://www.cmgww.com/sports/ashe/index.html
10. Barbara Jordan sat on what famous congressional committee? http://www.greatwomen.org/jordan.htm
11. Which Supreme Court Justice was known as the "little man's lawyer"?
12. What was W.E.B. Du Bois' greatest accomplishment? http://www.msu.edu/course/mc/112/1920s/Garvey-Dubois/index.html
13. The outstanding baseball player, Jackie Robinson, wrote an autobiography. What was it titled? (Be patient while the page loads.) http://blackhistory.eb.com/bio.html
14. To what did Francis Harper donate a large part of the money earned from her book Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects? http://www.toptags.com/aama/bio/women/fharper.htm
15. What black athlete's outstanding performance at the 1936 Olympics upset Hilter's plans? http://blackhistory.eb.com/micro/445/45.html
16. At the summer Olympic Games in 1968 two black athletes made a silent protest for equality. They raised their clenched fists as they were awarded their medals. Who were these men?
17. Name the composer who first popularized the Blues with his "Memphis Blues" and "St. Louis Blues". http://thebluehighway.com/history.html Try using the Find command to help you scan the text (Go command key ...f). Enter a keyword in the box. Hit the return key. To Find Again farther down the page use command ...g.
18. Savion Glover is a brilliant young dancer and choreographer. You may remember him from his appearances on what children's TV show? http://www.riverwalk.org/profiles/glover.htm
19. Trumpeter, Louis Armstrong, did something reckless as a kid. It changed the course of his life. What was it? http://www.satchmo.net/index1.html
20. For what contribution to medicine is Dr. Charles Drew known? http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/charles_drew.html
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Want to find out more?
Explore this outstanding Harriet Tubman site. Be sure to take the Quiz!
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/tubman.html
Take the Civil Rights photo tour
http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/movement/PT/phototour.html
Take the Black History Treasure Hunt