DIRECTIONS: Read each clue. Each clue tells about a famous black American on the list below. Use the list to connect to a short biography of each person. On the line next to each clue, write the name of the person that the clue tells about.

1. _____________________ This lay preacher led a Virginia slave revolt in 1831.
2. _____________________ This person, who was one of 13 children, died in an airplane crash.
3. _____________________ This person, who was a famous writer of piano music, was known as the "king of ragtime."
4. _____________________ This person's father worked as a sugarcane harvester in Puerto Rico.
5. _____________________ This person, a well-known trumpet player, was born on the Fourth of July.
6. _____________________ This person attended the University of California on a tennis scholarship.
7. _____________________ This person was a teacher in Mississippi before she became a well-known journalist.
8. _____________________ This person was appointed by President George Washington to help survey the land that would become Washington, D.C.
9. _____________________ This person was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949.
10. _____________________ This person wrote proudly of black people in books, poems, and plays.