Famous African Americans Answer Key Worksheet

Famous African Americans Answer Key

1. _______ was an escaped slave who worked to end slavery.

b. Frederick Douglass

2. _______ was an escaped slave who led many other slaves to freedom.

a. Harriet Tubman

3. _______ was an inventor who helped agriculture in the South by figuring out over

300 things that the peanut could be used for.

a. George Washington Carver

4. _______ won four medals at the 1936 Olympics.

a. Jesse Owens

5. ______ was the first African American to play on a Major League Baseball team.

b. Jackie Robinson

6. ______ was arrested when she wouldn’t give up her seat on a bus to a white man.

c. Rosa Parks

7. ______ won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for fighting for civil rights using

nonviolent methods.

a. Martin Luther King Jr.

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