Black History Month

2. She was told to give up her seat to a white passenger. She refused.
5. His most memorable act of “good trouble” occurred on March 7, 1965, when he led a group of 600 people across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on what would be known as “Bloody Sunday.”
7. Is well known for risking her life as a “conductor” in the Underground Railroad, which led escaped enslaved people to freedom in the North.
9. Became the first Black person to graduate from Iowa State College
11. He was such an amazing speaker that he started traveling all over the northern states, trying to convince large groups of people to end the practice of enslaving people.

1. Delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech, which boosted public support for civil rights
3. His best known case was Brown vs. Board of Education, which challenged school segregation, when white and Black students are forced to go to separate schools.
4. Her thrilling speeches won her the respect of many educated people fighting for the rights of Black people and women. That included President Abraham Lincoln.
6. The first African-American woman to obtain an international pilot’s license
8. One of her biggest accomplishments at NASA was helping calculate the trajectory, or path, of the country’s first human spaceflight in 1961, making sure astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., had a safe trip.
10. Decided to run for president (the first African-American woman to do so)