Civil Rights
Practice of marking a red line on a map to delineate an area where banks would not make loans--usually Black inner city neighborhoods.
What is redlining?
First African-American woman elected to the United States Congress
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
The only slave uprising that led to the founding of a state, free from slavery, and ruled by non-whites and former captives.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
Launched celebration of Negro History Week.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
Biblical figure, a woman who played an important role in society where men and women were equal in nearly all spheres.
Who is the Queen of Sheba?
Voting right activist, civil rights leader and philanthropist. Helped poor and needy families in her Mississippi community.
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
Jamaican political leader. Established the Negro Factories Corporation and founded the Black Star Line--a shipping and passenger line which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
Founder of the Moorish Science Temple of America in 1913.
Who is Noble Drew Ali?
First African-American woman to hold a pilot license.
Who is Bessie Coleman?
A Christian preacher that traveled from plantation to plantation ministering to slaves the Word of God. Used his preacher network to build his rebellion to freedom.
Who is Nat Turner?
Worked on voting rights and registration, economic opportunity. Worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi. Murdered by KKK.
Who is Medgar Evers?
Civil rights activist and member of the Black Panther Party. First woman to be placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list after escaping to Cua from prison.
Who is Assata Shakur?
Kenya's first president and considered founding father of the Kenyan Nation.
Who is Jomo Kenyatta?
In the 1750's he invented the first clock in America.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
Author, priest. Considered greatest Christian thinker after Saint Paul. Born in Africa.
Who is St. Augustine?
Ran the YMCA in Harlem and the National Council of Negro Women for 20 years.
Who is Dorothy Height?
Prime minister of Ghana from 1957-1960. In 2000, elected the greatest African of the millennium by a vote in Africa
Who is Kwame Nkruma?
Who is Tarenorerer or Wayler?
In 1967, convicted of draft evasion, sentenced to 5 years in prison after refusing induction into the US Armed Forces due to religious beliefs and opposition to American involvement in Vietnam.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
Born in Turkey. His parents died when he was young. Took all of his inheritance from his parents to help the sick and the poor.
Who is St. Nicholas?
Civil Rights activist and actor. First Black actor to play Shakespeare's Othello on Broadway.
Who is Paul Robeson?
First and only female prime minister of Dominica. Known as the "Iron Lady of the Caribbean."
Who is Dame Eugenia Charles?
In 1964, Malcolm X said, he was, "the greatest Black man who ever walked the continent of Africa..."
Who is Patrice Lumumba?
First African-American Astronaut?
Who is Guion Bluford?
Changed her name after she became convinced God called her to leave the city and go to the countryside. Her best known speech during the Civil war was "Ain't I a woman?"
Who is Sojourner Truth?