Civil Rights
Year the Civil Rights Act passed?
What is 1964
First black Supreme Court justice born in what county
Who is Thurgood Marshall born in Baltimore City
Most recognized first black female talk show host
Who is Oprah Winfrey
Co-founder and vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic party
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer
Served as the 44th president of the United States.
Who is Barack Hussein Obama II
Case that outlawed segregation in public schools?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
First black elected to the Montgomery County Council
Who is Isiah Leggett
First black actor to win an Academy Award Oscar for Best Actor
Who is Sidney Poitier
Led the first of three Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge
Who is John Lewis
First Black female US Senator
Who is Carol Moseley Braun
The original purpose of the Black Panther Party?
What is patrolling of black neighborhoods and protection against police brutality
Baltimore City's first black elected mayor.
Who is Kurt L. Schmoke
First television program to have a black host.
Who is Nat King Cole
First black to have his name entered into nomination as a major-party candidate for Vice President of the US
Who is Julian Bond
Number of black senators since reconstruction
What are nine-Brooke, Braun, Obama, Burris (appointed 2 yrs), Scott, Cowan (appointed 6 months-Kerry), Booker, Harris, Warnock
President Eisenhower's support for the "Little Rock Nine" students
What are the federal national guard
Named Araminta Ross when born in Dorchester County Maryland
Who is Harriet Tubman
First black woman to be nominated for an Academy Award Best Actress Oscar
Who is Dorothy Dandridge
Female activist held a prominent position within the NAACP and Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Who is Ella Baker
Minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives and candidate for governor of the state
Stacey Yvonne Abrams
The campaign MLK Jr Launched right before his death?
What is the Poor People's Campaign
First black woman elected to the Maryland House of Delegates to represent the 4th district of Baltimore City.
Who is Verda Welcome
First female rapper to be inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame
Who is Missy Elliot
Female activist in Nashville sit-in movement, one of the founding members of SNCC, and member of the Freedom Riders.
Who is Diane Nash
Female voice at the 1963 March on Washington
Mahaila Jackson