EDUCATION
This group gives scholarships to minority students and financial support to 37 historically black colleges and universities.
What is the United Negro College Fund (UNCF)?
She was arrested after refusing to move to the back of the bus which triggered a boycott
Who is Rosa Parks?
This is the name of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning novel
What is the Color Purple?
What is Hawaii?
American entrepreneur best known as the founder of the BET channel and as the country's first African American billionaire
Who is Robert L. Johnson?
The only four-year liberal arts historically black all male college in Atlanta, GA
What is Morehouse College?
Civil Rights Movement began in what year?
What is 1955?
The first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre
Who is Misty Copeland?
President Obama's Secret Service code name
What is Renegade?
He is known as an American Civil Rights activist, Baptist minister, and politician. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988.
Who is Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr?
The US Supreme Court's 1896 decision established a "separate but equal" doctrine in public education.
What is Plessy v Fergurson?
The first African American to be put on a US postage stamp
Who is Booker T. Washington?
He performed in theatre, television and in movies, where he won Oscars for both Best Supporting and Best Actor
Who is Denzel Washington?
The political office President Obama held before becoming president
What is US senator?
He is an American politician and Civil Rights leader. He is the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 5th Congressional District, serving since 1987 and is the Dean of the Georgia Congressional delegation
Who is John Robert Lewis?
Established in 1837 in Philadelphia, PA as a teacher training college, The Institute for Colored Youth became the first college/university for African American.
What is Cheyney University?
In 1990, this South African president and political activist was released from prison after 27 years
Who is Nelson Mendela?
In 1956 her autobiography Lady Sings the Blues was published
Who is Billie Holiday?
While in school, President Obama held the highest student position as the first president
The man who designed Washington, DC
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
By 1957, the NAACP had registered nine Black students to attend the previously all-white Little Rock Central High, selected on the criteria of excellent grades and attendance known as...
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
This teen's body was found mutilated after being lynched in Mississippi in 1955 helping spur the Civil Rights movement
Who is Emmitt Till?
He was an American poet, social activist, playwright and novelist who's life and work were enormously influential during the Harlem Renaissance of 1920s
Who is Langston Hughes?
President Barack Obama is a graduate of these two Ivy League universities
What is Columbia and Harvard?
He is an abolitionist leader whom became one of the most famous intellectuals of his time, advising presidents and lecturing to thousands on a range of causes, including women's rights and Irish home rule
Who is Frederick Douglass?