GRADES K–6

Martin Luther King, Jr.

& Black History Month
Activity Packet

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Table of Contents

Language Arts, Writing, and Reading

Martin Luther King, Jr. Word Search 1-2
Historical Fiction Reading Warm-Up: MLK 3-4
Notable African-American Women Quiz 5-6
Historical Fiction Reading Warm-Up: Rosa Parks 7-8

Social Studies
Underground Railroad Matching Activity 9-10
Martin Luther King, Jr. Coloring Page 11
I Have a Dream Drawing Activity 12
Rosa Parks Coloring Page 13
African-American History Quiz 14-17
Civil Rights Movement Activities 18-19

Mathematics
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday Logic Problems 20-21
Famous African-Americans: Using a Grid 22-23
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Wordsearch

Find these terms in the wordsearch below that are associated with Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. and his civil rights work.

brotherhood Martin Luther King nonviolence

I Have a Dream integration justice

segregation peace assassination

change civil rights Nobel Peace Prize

freedom black Americans equal rights

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H T H O I E Y C U V V J Q A G N E
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I G B R O T H E R H O O D L L H E
R E M C S T H G I R L I V I C C K
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 Fiction: Historical

Name__________________________ Date__________
Warm-Up

Dream Big
Nellie skimmed through the newspaper and folded it back up.
“I don’t get why we have to read about other people’s dreams in the newspaper,” stated Nellie.
“What do you mean?” asked Grandma Bay. Grandma was knitting a scarf to keep Nellie warm.
“The paper has an article about this man who keeps dreaming,” explained Nellie.
“Show me that article,” prodded Grandma.
Nellie fetched the paper off the table and brought it over to Grandma. She also picked up Grandma’s
reading glasses to save herself a trip. Grandma began to read intently. “Oh, this is so good. Dr. King’s
words just resonate with me.”
“Why? What’s so great about dreaming?” asked Nellie, innocently.
“It’s not a dream like the one you have at night. His dream is about the future and what it can hold for
people like us,” explained Grandma.
“I can dream my own dreams, thank you very much,” stated Nellie. She didn’t know what she thought
about this Dr. King.
“What if this Dr. King was the very person who enabled you to live your dreams?” questioned
Grandma. Nellie didn’t respond.
“Dr. King is working to help all of us live out our very dreams,” cooed Grandma. Nellie stiffened her
back and walked over to look at the newspaper article. “This man can help me live my dreams?” asked
Nellie.
“That’s right, Nell. Think about it. He’s opening doors for people everywhere,” said Grandma. Nellie
liked the sound of that. She smiled down at Dr. King.

Story Questions
1. What can you infer about Grandma’s feelings about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
a. Grandma felt that he had some interesting points to make.
b. Grandma admired and respected Dr. King.
c. Grandma was opposed to most of what Dr. King stood for.
d. Grandma was still trying to learn more about Dr. King.
2. Which of the following quotes helps answer the previous question?
a. “Why? What’s so great about dreaming?”
b. “Oh, this is so good. Dr. King’s words just resonate with me.”
c. “I don’t get why we have to read about other people’s dreams in the newspaper.”
d. “Show me that article.”
3. What does the word resonate mean as used in this passage?
a. echo c. partnership with
b. enchant d. open up
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Warm-Up Answer Key
Dream Big
1. b
2. b
3. a

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Notable African-American Women Quiz

Instructions: Use reference materials and the Internet to answer the questions below.
Read the question and circle the correct answer.
1) Who was the first black woman to 6) Which activist's long career involved
serve as a U.S. senator? her deeply in three major civil right
organizations—the NAACP, the
a. Shirley Chisholm
Southern Christian Leadership
b. Carol Mosely-Braun Conference (SCLC), and the Student
c. Eleanor Holmes Norton Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC)?
2) Who has served as poet laureate of the a. Fannie Lou Hamer
United States?
b. Angela Davis
a. Phillis Wheatley
c. Ella Baker
b. Maya Angelou
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c. Rita Dove 7) Which of these actresses has NOT

won an Oscar?
3) Which of these dancers became the a. Angela Bassett
director of a major American dance
company? b. Halle Berry

a. Judith Jamison c. Hattie McDaniel

b. Kathryn Dunham 8) Which abolitionist was known for her

c. Josephine Baker extraordinary oratorical gifts?
a. Harriet Tubman
4) Which journalist and civil rights
leader crusaded against lynching? b. Sojourner Truth

a. Ida B. Wells-Barnett c. Phyllis Wheatley

b. Mary McLeod Bethune 9) Which African-American woman won

c. Myrlie Evers-Williams the Nobel Prize in Literature?
a. Toni Morrison
5) Which of these opera singers became
the first African American to become a b. Zora Neale Hurston
permanent member of the Metropolitan c. Alice Walker
Opera Company?
10) Which of these civil rights activists
a. Jessye Norman
was the leader behind the Little Rock
b. Marian Anderson Nine, the students who desegregated
c. Leontyne Price Central High School in Little Rock,
Arkansas, in 1957?
a. Daisy Bates
b. Fannie Lou Hamer
c. Rosa Parks
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 Answer Key
Notable African-American Women Quiz
1) b. Carol Mosely-Braun
2) c. Rita Dove
3) a. Judith Jamison
4) a. Ida B. Wells-Barnett
5) b. Marian Anderson
6) c. Ella Baker
7) a. Angela Bassett
8) b. Sojourner Truth
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9) a. Toni Morrison
10) a. Daisy Bates
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Warm-Up

Rosa on the Bus

Rosa Parks was tired. She had been sewing all day. She got on the bus and sat
down, but the bus driver told her to move.
“No,” said Rosa. “I need to sit down.”
The bus driver was mad. Rosa was black. He said it was a rule that she should stand
so that white people could sit down.
“No,” said Rosa again.
She was brave. Because of her, people stopped riding
the bus. They said that black people should get to sit
down, just like white people. They would not ride the
bus again until the problem was solved.
Rosa went to court in Alabama, and she won. Now, all
people could sit down on the bus. Thank you, Rosa!

Story Questions

1. Why does Rosa want to sit down?

a. She is black. c. She is mean.
b. She is white. d. She is tired.
2. The bus driver said Rosa should stand because . . .
a. she is a woman. c. she is black.
b. she is white. d. she can sew.
3. In this story, Rosa is . . .
a. silly. c. scared.
b. brave. d. white.
4. People stopped riding the bus because . . .
a. rules were not fair.
b. it cost too much.
c. Rosa was on it.
d. they were tired.

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Warm-Up Answer Key
Rosa on the Bus
1. d
2. c
3. b
4. a

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The Underground Railroad

Matching Activity

The Underground Railroad was a series of secret routes and safe houses in the

United States that African-American slaves used to escape to Canada in the 1800s. With

the help of abolitionists, it is estimated that more than 30,000 slaves made their way to

freedom, settling in areas all across the country. The slaves and those who helped their

escape used railroad terms as a secret code.

Instructions: Match the Underground Railroad terms in Column A with their meanings

in Column B.

Column A Column B

1. baggage a) Transporting slaves from one station to the next

2. conductors b) The Big Dipper constellation

3. bundles of wood c) The keeper of the safe-house

4. Canaan d) Escaping slaves

5. forwarding e) The safe-houses: churches, barns, and homes

6. station master f) The people who operated the Underground Railroad

7. stations g) Male slaves

8. hardware h) Fugitives to be expected

9. dry goods i) Canada

10. drinking gourd j) Female slaves

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 The Underground Railroad: Matching Activity
Answer Key

1. d

2. f

3. h

4. i

5. a

6. c

7. e

8. g

9. j

10. b

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I Have a Dream

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African-American History

This quiz will test kids' knowledge of notable people and events in African American history.
Carefully read each question, and circle the letter of the correct answer.

1. Which of these famous books stirred up anti-slavery sentiment in the United States
before the Civil War?

a. Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe

b. Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain

c. Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott

2. Who was the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad?

a. Sojourner Truth

b. Harriet Tubman

c. Frederick Douglass

3. What is an abolitionist?

a. A person who believed slavery was just and fair.

b. A person who wanted to end slavery.

c. A person who wanted to secede from the North.

4. What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

a. A document declaring that the Southern states were seceding from the United
States.

b. A document declaring that all states west of the Mississippi would be "free" states as
opposed to "slave" states.

c. An executive order by President Lincoln declaring that all slaves were free.

5. Which famous Supreme Court case in 1896 declared that segregation was legal and
constitutional, as long as segregated facilities were "separate but equal?"

a. Plessy v. Ferguson

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 b. Brown v. Board of Education

c. Dred Scott v. Sandford

6. What were Jim Crow laws?

a. These laws legalized slavery.

b. These laws instituted segregation in the South, legalizing racially segregated

facilities.

c. These laws had to do with fugitive slaves and their return to slaveholders.

7. Which famous Supreme Court Case led to the desegregation of schools?

a. Dred Scott v. Sandford

b. Brown v. Board of Education

c. Bakke v. Regents of California

8. What civil rights leader wrote "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," which argued the case for
"civil disobedience"—the moral duty for individuals to disobey unjust laws?

a. Thurgood Marshall

b. Malcom X

c. Martin Luther King

9. What famous event took place during the March on Washington?

a. Martin Luther King gave his most famous speech, "I Have a Dream."

b. The Black Panthers were founded.

c. African Americans were given full voting privileges.

10. Who were the "Little Rock Nine?"

a. An early soul group that sang civil rights protest songs.

b. A group of black students who bravely worked to desegregate all-white Central High
School in Little Rock, Ark.

c. A group of non-violent civil rights marchers who were arrested and imprisoned.

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Answer Key: African-American History

1. [a. Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe] Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle
Tom's Cabin, was published in 1852. It became one of the most influential works to stir
anti-slavery sentiments before the Civil War. When Abraham Lincoln met her, he is
reported to have said, "So this is the little lady that started this big war!"

2. [b. Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave, helped other slaves escape to freedom in Canada
though the Underground Railroad.] Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave, helped other
slaves escape to freedom in Canada though the Underground Railroad.

3. [b. A person who wanted to end slavery.] Abolitionists believed that slavery should be
abolished.

4. [c. An executive order by President Lincoln declaring that all slaves were free.] In 1863,
President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring "that all persons held
as slaves" within the Confederate states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

5. [a. Plessy v. Ferguson] Plessy v. Ferguson legalized segregation by claiming that as

long as segregated facilities were "separate but equal." they did not violate any
constitutional rights. In reality, segregated facilities were shamefully unequal.

6. [b. These laws instituted segregation in the South, legalizing racially segregated
facilities.] Jim Crow laws permitted segregation on railways, restaurants, hospitals,
theaters, and schools, and a whole host of other public institutions.

7. [b. Brown v. Board of Education] Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans. was a
unanimous decision ruling that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. It
overturned the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that sanctioned "separate but equal"
segregation of the races, ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently
unequal." The ruling paved the way for desegregation.

8. [c. Martin Luther King] Martin Luther King was arrested and jailed during anti-segregation
protests in Birmingham, Ala. While in jail he wrote his famous essay, "Letter from
Birmingham Jail," which advocated nonviolent civil disobedience.

9. [a. Martin Luther King gave his most famous speech, "I Have a Dream."] Martin Luther
King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington, on
August 28, 1963. The March on Washington, was attended by some 250,000 people,
and was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital.

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10. [b. A group of black students who bravely worked to desegregate all-white Central High
School in Little Rock, Ark.] The Little Rock Nine were the first black teenagers to attend
all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. Federal troops and the National Guard
had to be called in to protect the students from angry and violent whites who did
everything they could to prevent the students from attending the school.

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Social Issues: Civil Rights 1960s

The Civil Rights Movement

Civil rights had long been an issue, but not until the sixties did it reach such urgency. Tired of the slow
pace of legislative changes, African American leaders emerged and pushed the civil rights movement to
the forefront. Listed below are some important 1960s developments in the civil rights cause.
Sit-Ins This nonviolent action was started on February 1, 1960, by a group of four black students who
had gone to the Woolworth’s store in Greensboro, North Carolina, to buy supplies. When they sat at
the lunch counter for coffee, they were told they could not be served. In protest, the group remained
seated until the store closed.
Freedom Rides This project protested the segregation of long-distance interstate bus travel. In 1961 a
group called CORE announced plans for seven blacks and six whites to begin a Freedom Ride from
Washington, D.C., to New Orleans, Louisiana. The bus did not get far before there was trouble. Angry
whites beat several riders and set fire to the bus. Nevertheless, several more freedom rides were planned
and carried out before the U.S. government initiated very clear rules about integrating bus stations.
March on Washington On August 28, 1963, more than 2,000 buses and thirty special trains had
brought a quarter of a million people to Washington, D.C., to protest against discrimination. People of
all races and from all over the country traveled to our nation’s capital so their voices could be heard.
This is where Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his famous “I Have a Dream . . .” speech.
Mississippi Freedom Summer During the summer of 1964, close to 1,000 students from the North
traveled to Mississippi to participate in the Mississippi Summer Project. Bob Moses had planned the
event to create a new political party and provide volunteers to register black voters. This angered many
whites, and on June 21, three young civil rights workers were killed.
Selma to Montgomery March On March 21, 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., began with a group of
4,000 people across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. By the time they reached Montgomery on March 25,
they numbered 25,000.
Poor People’s Campaign This was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, last campaign. In 1968 he had
decided to take his cause North to work to eliminate poverty among blacks and whites.
Riots In Los Angeles from August 11–16, 1965, race riots spread throughout the city’s Watts area.
Sparked by charges of police brutality, National Guardsmen were called in to restore order. During one
week in July of 1967, seventy-five race riots erupted in Detroit. Forty-three people died in the
conflicts.

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Changes With the class, discuss what important changes were brought about by the civil
rights movement and how the U.S. government helped the cause.
Resource For more information about these issues read . . . If You Lived at the Time of
Martin Luther King, Jr., by Ellen Levine (Scholastic, Inc., 1990).

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Leading the Cause

Not everyone agreed with Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ideas. Although the civil rights groups and black
leaders believed that blacks and whites must be treated equally, their methods were not all the same.
Read about some of these groups and leaders of the civil rights cause.
NAACP The oldest civil rights group, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People, was founded in 1909. Its members believed that the best way to change bad laws was through
the court system. Lawyers for the NAACP argued that segregation was wrong and they won several
important cases.
CORE The Congress of Racial Equality was founded in Chicago in 1942. Composed of black and
white members, they believed in nonviolent direct action and organized the Freedom Rides of 1961.
SNCC Founded in 1960 by students from the sit-ins, the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee helped African Americans to
register to vote.
SCLC The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded
by Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King, Jr., following the bus
boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

Malcolm X Malcolm X was originally a leader of the Nation of

Islam, or Black Muslims. He spoke out against integration and
believed that blacks and whites should not live together. After a trip
to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, he changed his ideas about hate and
violence. Malcolm broke with the Black Muslims to form his own
group. In 1964 he was killed by some men in the Muslim group. Malcolm X
Medgar Evers As Mississippi field secretary of the NAACP, he
coordinated the effort to desegregate public facilities in Jackson,
Mississippi. His assassination on June 13, 1963, led President
Kennedy to advocate a new, comprehensive civil rights program.
Huey Newton In 1966 Huey Newton and other black activists
founded the Black Panther Party, the original purpose of which was
to protect African American neighborhoods from police brutality.
Stokely Carmichael When Stokely Carmichael was elected
president of the SNCC, he decided to take the organization in a
more aggressive direction. He talked about change by any means
necessary and black power. In 1966 SNCC expelled all whites from
Stokley Carmichael
its organization.

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Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan became an outspoken leader of the Nation of Islam later in
the century. Tell the students to find out his views on civil rights, whites, and integration.
Assassins Medgar Evers’ assassins were not brought to trial until some thirty years after the
event. Direct the students to find out why it took so long to prosecute his killers.
Update Instruct the students to find out about current changes in the NAACP. Find out who
is the current leader and how the organization is affecting social change.

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Holiday Brain Teasers Patriotic Holidays

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday

Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in the South, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was a very bright student, and
he received a doctorate in philosophy. He became a minister and a leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
He studied the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, and he accepted the doctrine of nonviolent civil
disobedience.
Dr. King was a great leader, and he is the person most responsible for galvanizing the movement to rid
the United States of legal racial discrimination. In 1983, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday was
declared a federal holiday.
Use this information and the clues below to determine what events took place in certain cities during
specific years.
Clues:
1. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote his first book, Stride Toward Freedom, in 1958, before becoming
co-pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church and president of the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (S.C.L.C.) in Atlanta, Georgia.
2. Martin Luther King, Jr. received a doctorate in philosophy from Boston University in 1955.
3. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks defied the ordinance concerning segregated seating on city
buses. Later that year, King, Ralph Abernathy, and Edward Nixon led a bus boycott in
Montgomery, Alabama. This was eight years before King delivered his famous speech, known as
“I Have a Dream,” in the U.S. capital.
4. In 1964, Dr. King was chosen as the first black to receive Time magazine’s “Man of the Year”
award. Later that year, he received the Nobel Peace Prize. This was prior to his multiracial poor
peoples’ march on Washington, D.C., to demand an end to all forms of discrimination and to
support the funding of a $12 billion Economic Bill of Rights.
5. On April 4, 1968, King flew to a Southern city (although it was not the city of his birth) to assist
striking sanitation workers. There, he was assassinated by James Earl Ray.

City Event Sanitation Worker

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

“I Have a Dream”

Assisted Striking
Montgomery, AL

President of the
Memphis, TN

Bill of Rights
Bus Boycott
Atlanta, GA

Atlanta, GA

Economic
S.C.L.C.
Became

Birth

Year

1929
1955
1960
1963
1968
1968
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Martin Luther King,Jr.’s Birthday Answer Key

1929—Atlanta, Birth; 1955—Montgomery, Bus

Boycott; 1960—Atlanta, President of Southern

Christian Leadership Council; 1963—

Washington, “I Have a Dream”; 1968—

Washington, Economic Bill of Rights; 1968—

Memphis, Assisted Striking Sanitation Workers

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Math

Famous African Americans: Using a Grid

Learn interesting facts about some famous African 5 S A H O P I
Americans by using a grid to decode the names. 4 I W B L F E
Write the letter on the line that corresponds to 3 Q C N E U A
each set of coordinates. For example, if you are 2 D V J T Y O
given the coordinates (1,5), you would write the 1 K Z R G M X
letter “S.” (The horizontal coordinate is the first 1 2 3 4 5 6
number in the pair and the vertical coordinate is the second number.)
1. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ is famous
(3,5) (2,5) (3,1) (3,1) (6,5) (6,4) (4,2) (4,2) (5,3) (3,4) (5,1) (6,3) (3,3)
for freeing more than 300 slaves using the Underground Railroad.
2. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ refused to give up her bus
(3,1) (4,5) (1,5) (2,5) (5,5) (6,3) (3,1) (1,1) (1,5)
seat to a white person.
3. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
(3,2) (2,5) (5,1) (4,3) (1,5) (2,5) (3,1) (5,1) (6,5) (1,5) (4,2) (6,4) (2,5) (1,2)
was an important spy for the United States during the Revolutionary War.
4. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ is a famous
(5,1) (2,5) (5,2) (2,5) (6,3) (3,3) (4,1) (6,4) (4,4) (4,5) (5,3)
performer, writer, and director.
5. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ owns her
(4,5) (5,5) (3,1) (2,5) (3,5) (2,4) (6,5) (3,3) (5,4) (3,1) (4,3) (5,2)
own television studio.
6. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ was the first
(3,2) (4,3) (1,5) (1,5) (4,3) (3,2) (2,5) (2,3) (1,1) (1,5) (6,2) (3,3)
African-American man to run for president.
7. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
(5,1) (2,5) (3,1) (4,2) (6,5) (3,3) (4,4) (5,3) (4,2) (3,5) (6,4) (3,1)
____ ____ ____ ____ , ____ ____ ., led the fight for civil rights during the 1960’s
(1,1) (1,4) (3,3) (4,1) (3,2) (3,1)
and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1963.
8. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
(1,5) (4,5) (3,2) (4,5) (5,3) (3,1) (3,3) (4,3) (3,1) (4,2) (3,1) (5,3) (4,2) (3,5)
was born a slave and escaped. She fought against slavery and for women’s voting rights.
9. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
(3,4) (4,5) (4,5) (1,1) (4,3) (3,1) (4,2) (2,4) (2,5) (1,5) (3,5) (6,5) (3,3) (4,1)
____ ____ ____ started a school to train African-American teachers, farmers,
(4,2) (6,2) (3,3)
brick makers, and carpenters.
10. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
(3,2) (2,5) (2,3) (1,1) (6,5) (4,3) (3,1) (6,2) (3,4) (6,5) (3,3) (1,5) (4,5) (3,3)
was the first African American to play major league baseball. He joined the Brooklyn
Dodgers in 1947.
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 Answer Key
1. Harriet Tubman
2. Rosa Parks
3. James Armistead
4. Maya Angelou
5. Oprah Winfrey
6. Jesse Jackson
7. Martin Luther King, Jr.
8. Sojourner Truth
9. Booker T. Washington
10. Jackie Robinson

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