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An African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement,

Malcolm X

200

 An American abolitionist and social activist. Born into chattel slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 similarly-enslaved people,

Harriet Tubman

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Who is this quote by “If there is no struggle, there is no progress

Fredrick dougless

200

A civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

200

What occurred in March 1899 in southwestern Arkansas entailed the murder of at least seven African Americans throughout Little River County.

Little River County Race War of 1899

400

An American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.

Fredrick Douglass

400

 An American contralto. She performed a wide range of music, from opera to spirituals. She also performed with renowned orchestras in major concert and recital venues throughout the United States and Europe between 1925 and 1965.

Marian Anderson

400

Who created this quote "Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life because you become what you believe.” 

Oprah Winfrey

400

The resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War—refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage.

Underground Railroad

400

 Three protests that were conducted by local African Americans on the beaches of Biloxi, Mississippi between 1959 and 1963

Biloxi wade-ins

600

An American professional boxer and activist. Nicknamed "The Greatest", he is regarded as one of the most significant sports figures of the 20th century and is frequently ranked as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.

Muhammad Ali

600

An American memoirist, popular poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years.

Maya Angelou

600

Who made this quote "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.


Matrin Luther King Jr

600

A nonviolent social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement throughout the United States.

Civil Rights Movement

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 Riots in the Overtown and Liberty City sections of Miami, Florida until Jan. 21. Due to the shooting of an African American motorcyclist.

Overtown-Liberty City Riot in miami

800

 A minister, educator, writer, and one of America's most active and influential Black leaders. In 1794, he founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first independent Black denomination in the United States.

Richard Allen

800

Known as Bet, Mum Bett, or MumBet, was the first enslaved African American to file and win a freedom suit in Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Freeman

800

Who created this quote“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.”

Rosa parks

800

Three protest marches, were held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery.

Selma to Montgomery March

800

A 1992 peace agreement among rival street gangs in Los Angeles, California, declared in the neighborhood of Watts

The Watts Truce

1000

An American professional baseball right fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball, from 1954 through 1976.

Hank Aaron

1000

An enslaved woman of mixed races who was owned by the Washington family, first at the family's plantation at Mount Vernon and later, after George Washington became president, at the President's House in Philadelphia, then the nation's capital city.

Ona Judge

1000

Who created this quote “For no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.”



Harriet tubman

1000

A branch or counterculture within the civil rights movement of the United States, reacting against its more moderate, mainstream, or incremental tendencies and motivated by a desire for safety and self-sufficiency that was not available inside redlined African American neighborhoods.

Black Power Movement

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 A mass march during the Civil Rights Movement on June 23, 1963, in Detroit, Michigan. It drew crowds of an estimated 125,000 or more and was known as "the largest civil rights demonstration in the nation's history" up to that date.

Detroit Walk To Freedom

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