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Countries like the United Kingdom and the Netherlands celebrate Black History Month in October.

Stevie Wonder helped make Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday a national holiday with the assistance of special lyrics from his song.

Jazz, an African American musical form born out of the blues, ragtime and marching bands, originated in Louisiana (19th century).

America westward expansion and the abolition movement provoked a great debate over slavery that would tear the Union apart in the Civil War.

Robert Johnson became the first African American billionaire when he sold the cable station he founded, Black Entertainment T.V. in 2001.

April 5, 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play Major League Baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers.

George Washington Carver developed 300 derivative products from peanuts among them cheese, milk, coffee, flour, ink, dyes, and cosmetics.

The celebration of Black History Month began as “^Black History Week,” which was created in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson. (Altered Word)

Madam Walker was “first black woman millionaire in America” and made her fortune thanks to her line of hair care products for black women.

Malcolm X was an African American leader in the civil rights movement, minister and supporter of black rights movement.

Civil Rights Act of 1964, is considered one of the crowning legislative wins of the civil rights movement. First proposed by President JFK.

The Little Rock Nine a group of nine black students who went to a formerly all-white High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957

The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young black students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworths

1955, Rosa Parks helped initiate the civil rights movement in the U.S. when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Alabama bus

John Mercer Langston was the first black man to become a lawyer when he passed the bar in Ohio in 1854.

Madam Walker was born on a cotton plantation in Louisiana and became wealthy after inventing a line of African American hair care products.

In 1940, Hattie McDaniel was the first African American performer to win an Academy Award in the film (Gone With the Wind).

1870, Hiram R. Revels was the first African American ever elected to the U.S. Senate. He represented state of Mississippi for a 2 year term.

Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave who became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, leading slaves to freedom before the Civil War.

1954 , Brown v. Board of Ed. was a landmark Supreme Court case. The justices ruled, segregation of children in schools was unconstitutional.