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An escaped slave, American abolitionist, activist and driving force behind the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman
Who is the first African-American female Vice President
Who is Kamala Harris
Who was the first African- American Golf Champion
Who is Tiger Woods
On August 28, 1963, hundreds of thousands of people arrived in Washington, D.C., for the largest non-violent civil rights demonstration that the nation had ever seen
What is the March on Washington
"When they go low, we go high” was a famous quote originally said by????
Who is Michelle Obama
Who is considered the father of Modern South Africa.
Who is Nelson Mandela
The first African American Astronaut?
Dr. Mae Jemison
The first and, as of 2016, the African American female to be licensed as a NASCAR driver.
Who is “Tia” Norfleet
One of the earliest black female activists that helped lay the foundation to the modern civil rights movement.
Who is Mary Mcleod Bethune
Who was the first African- American artist to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year?
Who is Stevie Wonder
The first African American Women in Congress?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
They banned discrimination in public accommodations, public education, and employment, and prohibited race-based restrictions on voting. Such sweeping legislation had been a longtime goal of the civil rights movement, and it brought many of the laws and practices of the Jim Crow Era to an end.
Whats is The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965
In 2012, at the London Olympics, what black gymnast was the first to win the Individual All-Around title?
Who is Gabby Douglas
In their first major civil rights action, they led the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr
What does the NAACP stand for?
What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Political activist, celebrated orator, co-founder of the Freedom Democratic Party, and co-organizer of Freedom Summer.
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer
What pro-black group started the free breakfast program (better known as WIC) for school children and free health clinics in 13 African American communities across the United States.
Who is The Black Panthers
On April 5, 1947, who became the first African American to play Major League Baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers?
Who is Jackie Robinson
On March 7, 1965, a civil rights march led by 25-year-old activist leader John Lewis, was attacked by state troopers and sheriff’s deputies as the marchers attempted to cross the city’s Edmund Pettus Bridge.
What is the The Selma Civil Rights Marches
"By any means necessary" was made a famous by who?
Who is Malcom X
______emerged as the leader of Communist Party USA in the 1960s and had close ties to the Black Panther Party and has advocated for the abolishment of prisons and the prison-industrial complex.
Who is Angela Yvonne Davis
A group of courageous black students who integrated the Arkansas capital city's Central High School in September 1957
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
Who was first black NBA player?
Who is Earl Francis Lloyd
John Lewis, Whitney Young, A. Phillip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer and Roy Wilkins are know as?
Who are the "Big Six" leaders of the Civil Rights Movement?
_____ former name was Greenwood neighbourhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where in the early 20th century African Americans had created a self-sufficient prosperous business district, until the Tulsa race massacre of 1921.
What is Black Wall Street