Celebrating Black History Month Treasure Hunt
Celebrating Black History Month Treasure Hunt
Introduction:
In the United States we celebrate Black History Month in February. In this activity you have 16 questions to answer, which will help you learn more about why we celebrate Black History Month. To find answers to the questions, click on the blue underlined hyperlinks. Use the worksheet to record your answers. After you have found the answer to a question, click the Back button (in the upper left-hand corner of the monitor) to return to this page for the next hyperlink to visit. After you have found the answers to all 16 questions, think about what you have learned and then answer The Big Question.
Questions:
| 1. | What was John
Solomon Sandridge’s job? http://admiralsantiques.com/sandridgewisdom.htm |
| 2. | What
African-American was known as the “Harlem Fox?” Why? http://www.sunypress.edu/sunyp/backads/html/walterharlem.html |
| 3. | What was Rita
Dove’s job? http://www.biography.com - (type in: Rita Dove) |
| 4. | Who was the
first African-American to get a college degree? http://www.nepress.com/biogrphy.htm |
| 5. | What life
saving device did Otis Boykin make? http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/boykin.html |
| 6. | What did
Marshall “Major” Taylor ride to become known as “The Black
Cyclone?” http://www.isomedia.com/homes/bhd2/marshall_taylor.htm |
| 7. | What is
Benjamin S. Carson, Sr. known for? http://www.usdreams.com/Carson.html |
| 8. | Susie King
Taylor wrote a book titled My Life in Camp. What was it
about? http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/raw/publisher/hist/blkwmmem.htm |
| 9. | What did
Frederick McKinley Jones create to help ship food across the country? http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/jones.html |
| 10. | Why was Ruby
Bridges the only girl in her school in 1960? http://www.myhero.com/hero.asp?hero=rubybridges |
| 11. | Why was
Clayton Bates called “Peg Leg Bates?” http://www.jitterbuzz.com/pegleg.html |
| 12. | In 1955, what
did Rosa Parks refuse to do? http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/parks.html |
| 13. | What type of
music did Duke Ellington play? http://www.jazzhistory.f2s.com/bios/duke/default.html |
| 14. | Who was the
star of the Cosby show? http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=13861 |
| 15. | What famous
black man was born on January 15? http://www.famousbirthdays.com/ |
| 16. | Who won the
2000 Wimbledon tennis match? http://espn.go.com/tennis/s/wta/profiles/vwilliams.html |
The Big Question:
Why do you think the United States celebrates Black History Month?
Written by Jamie Loughry, Southern Elementary