Significant Black Americans
	1. Who was the first baseball player to break Major League Baseball's color barrier that segregated major league baseball for more than 50 years?
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	2. Arthur Ashe was the first black winner of a major men's  championship.  What sport did he play?
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	3. Which Black American composer and pianist is known as the "king of ragtime"?
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	4. Langston Hughes is a well-known poet.  However, his dad didn't think he could make any money writing poems.  What did his dad want him to study at school instead of writing poems?
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	*Hint* The answer is NOT "a more practical career"
	5. What is the name of the Black American journalist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s?
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	Click here if you need to know what lynching is.
	6. Benjamin Banneker was a mathematician, astronomer, compiler of almanacs, inventor, and writer.  What did he do in 1789?
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	7. Bessie Coleman was the first woman to ever do...what?
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	8. What is Louis Armstrong known for?
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	*Hint* You can look under his picture to find out!
	9. Maya Angelou is perhaps best known as an author, although she has been a groundbreaker for black women in many areas.  What is the name of her first autobiography book (the story of her life)?
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	10.  Harriet Tubman was a black slave who helped other people get to freedom.  In what year were all the slaves freed?
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	The website is a time line made by 2nd graders.  Read each page (there are 10 all together) and then click "next" to get to the next page until you find the answer.  After you find the answer, you may look at the rest of the pages if you want to.