Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Colin Powell
'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
HARRIET TUBMAN
I'm a survivorI'm not gon' give upI'm not gon' stop, ohI'm gon' work harder
DESTINY CHILD
BARACK &
ROSA PARKS
In September 2004, she made history on TV by giving a brand new car to each audience member
Oprah Winfrey
|....my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
MICHAEL JACKSON
WHITNEY &
BOBBY
He led the four-day rebellion of enslaved and free Black people in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831
Nat Turner
Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Toni Morrison
"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
MAYA ANGELOU
I see no changes, all I see is racist faces
Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races
We under, I wonder what it takes to make this
One better place, let's erase the wasted
TUPAC SHAKUR
GABRIELLE &
DWAYNE
SHIRLEY CHISOLM
KETANJI BROWN JACKSON
“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.”
ANGELA DAVIS
Whoa! I feel good, I knew that I would, nowI feel good, I knew that I would, nowSo good, so good, I got you
JAMES BROWN
BETTY &
MALCOLM
Carter G Woodson
Madame CJ Walker
Well, son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
FINISH THE LYRIC:LIFT EVERY VOICE AND ___TILL _____ RING
COURTNEY &
ANGELA
What was the affluent African American Greenwood area of Tulsa, Oklahoma also known as in 1921? (business, hospitals, etc.)
Black Wall Street