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Famous African Americans Worksheet

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Famous African Americans

Directions: Circle the letter next to the answer that completes the sentence.

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

a. Benjamin Banneker

b. Frederick Douglass

c. W.E.B. DuBois

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

a. Harriet Tubman

b. Sojourner Truth

c. Phillis Wheatley

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

b. Benjamin Banneker

c. Garret Morgan

4. _______ won four medals at the 1936 Olympics.

a. Jesse Owens

b. Roy Campanella

c. Cassius Clay

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

a. Satchel Paige

b. Jackie Robinson

c. Willie Mays

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

a. Coretta Scott King

b. Ida Wells-Barnett

c. Rosa Parks

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

nonviolent methods.

a. Martin Luther King Jr.

b. Ralph Bunche

c. Malcolm X

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Famous African Americans Worksheet