African American Firsts
The first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit
Who is Tiger Woods?
The Supreme Court decision that decreed public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
It quickly, legally, and violently restored to the New South where African Americans had endured centuries of slavery and the struggle for abolition.
Jim Crow Laws and White Supremacy
The father of hip hop.
Who is DJ Cool Herc?
This movement had its roots in the centuries-long efforts of African slaves and their descendants to resist racial oppression and abolish the institution of slavery.
What is the Civil Rights movement?
The first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?
She refused to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
This New Jersey artist painted the lasting cultural, political, and societal impact of the Great Migration.
Who is Jacob Lawrence?
The female rapper from New Jersey, known for her hit "U.N.I.T.Y".
Who is Queen Latifah?
The founders of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Who are Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi?
The first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The unethical practice that puts services (financial and otherwise) out of reach for residents of certain areas based on race or ethnicity.
Many of them worked on the same plantations in which they were enslaved or their ancestors were enslaved.
Who are sharecroppers?
"Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots...You know it's funny when it rains it pours
They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor
Said it ain't no hope for the youth and the truth is
It ain't no hope for the future"
Who is Tupac Shakur?
International news coverage of the Birmingham clashes between police and the African American community prompted this President to introduce legislation that eventually became the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Who is President John F. Kennedy?
The first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
A 2017 study by the UCLA Civil Rights Project found this state has the sixth-most segregated classrooms in the United States.
What is New Jersey?
Industrial jobs were numerous, and factory owners looked near and far for sources of cheap labor.
What is the reason Southern African Americans migrated to the North?
"Rappers Delight" was the first rap single to enter the national Top 20.
Who is the Sugarhill Gang?
He was shot at least six times by a police officer, his body left on the street for hours as community members watched on. His death caused unrest and led to nights of protesting which led to national and international attention, sparking the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Who is Michael Brown?
1619
What is the year that the first Africans were bought to the U.S. as slaves?
Racial discrimination that is not mandated by law. It is brought about by prejudice, individual preference, and social norms.
What is de facto segregation?
It took the environment of the new American city to bring in close proximity some of the greatest minds of the day. Great works that might otherwise have been lost or never produced.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
"Our freedom of speech is freedom or death"
"To revolutionize make a change, Nothing's strange"
"What we need is awareness, We can't get careless"
"Cause I'm black and I'm proud"
"Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps"
Who is Public Enemy?
The BLM movement’s unrelenting work on the issue of police corruption helped incite the release of four unprecedented U.S. Department of Justice reports that confirm the widespread presence of police corruption in these cities.
Where is Baltimore, Maryland, Chicago, Illinois Ferguson, Missouri and Cleveland, Ohio?