FREEDOM & HISTORY
This June date is celebrated annually as Juneteenth.
What is June 19?
The first African American president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
This song is known as the Black National Anthem.
What is "Lift Every Voice and Sing"?
He delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
This athlete broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This year marks the first Juneteenth celebration.
What is 1865?
She refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This musical genre originated in African American communities in New Orleans.
What is Jazz?
This Alabama city was the starting point of a bus boycott that lasted 381 days.
What is Montgomery?
This abolitionist escaped slavery and helped others gain freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This state was the last to receive news of emancipation.
What is Texas?
This NASA engineer invented the Super Soaker.
Who is Lonnie Johnson?
She was known as the "Queen of Soul."
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This landmark Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional in 1954.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
She became the first African American and first woman Vice President of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
This President issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
She became the first African American woman elected to Congress.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This poet wrote "Still I Rise."
Who is Maya Angelou?
This landmark legislation outlawed discrimination in 1964.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This scientist developed hundreds of uses for peanuts, sweet potatoes, and other crops.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution formally abolished slavery throughout the United States in 1865.
What is the 13th amendment?
He became the first African American Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This Harlem Renaissance writer authored "The Weary Blues."
Who is Langston Hughes?
These marches helped lead to passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
What are the Selma to Montgomery Marches?
This educator founded Tuskegee Institute and became one of the most influential Black leaders of the late 19th century.
Who is Booker T. Washington?