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What is the name of the order that officially freed enslaved people in Texas on June 19, 1865?
What is General Order No. 3?
True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation freed all enslaved people in the U.S. immediately.
What is False?
This shoulder dance-move was cruising through 2013-2016 in New York.
What is the Harlem Shake?
Whether it's the flat or drum, this dish could be plain, spicy, sweet, or tangy but without the crisp, this dish is mid.
What is chicken wings?
Juneteenth commemorates the freeing of enslaved people in this U.S. state.
What is Texas?
She escaped slavery and became a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Juneteenth marks the end of slavery in the U.S. — but slavery was still legal in this border state until December 1865.
What is Kentucky (or Delaware)?
This event celebrates black persistence through slavery, even after the end of the Civil War, marking the illegal slavery.
This sweet, buttery bread is often baked in cast iron and served with greens, beans, or chili.
What is cornbread?
In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech during this major civil rights event.
What is the March on Washington?
This activist co-founded the NAACP and wrote The Souls of Black Folk.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
Some people think Juneteenth was only celebrated in Texas. In truth, celebrations spread to this many states by the 20th century.
What is all 50 states?
What is the significant period of African American cultural and artistic flourishing in the early 20th century (Hint: centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City)
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
A get-together that involves a family making a surplus of food, which typically has a range of old 90s rap to reggae music.
What is a cookout/barbecue?
She refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, sparking a city-wide boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
He was the Union general who delivered the news of emancipation to Galveston, Texas.
Who is General Gordon Granger?
Myth or Fact: Lincoln freed enslaved people because he believed in full racial equality.
What is Myth?
This actor and producer made waves with Get Out, Nope, and Us, flipping horror with a social twist.
Who is Jordan Peele?
At a cookout, after a couple beers, this game will spark arguments, heightened blood pressure, and lots of table slamming.
What is dominos?
The civil rights movement in the 1960s led to this landmark legislation that outlawed segregation.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This abolitionist and author famously said, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The last enslaved people in the U.S. weren’t actually freed until this amendment.
What is the 13th Amendment?
A cookout isn’t official until someone shows up with this side dish.
What is Baked Mac n Cheese?
Sing the lyrics. These lyrics tell us what HAS to be at thanksgiving (hint: think grandma)
I Got Beans Greens Potatoes Tomatoes / Lamb Rams Hogs Maws / Beans Greens Potatoes Tomatoes / Chicken Turkeys Rabbit / YOU NAME IT!
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?