Historic Events
This 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
This founder of the Tuskegee Institute was a leading Black educator in the late 1800s.
Booker T. Washington
This gospel song includes the lyric, “I smile, even though I hurt.”
I Smile
This is the name of the historically Black fraternity founded at Cornell University in 1906.
Alpha Phi Alpha
The year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott began in this Alabama city in 1955.
Montgomery, Alabama
This Black woman poet wrote “Still I Rise.”
Maya Angelou
This traditional spiritual begins with the words, “Swing low…”
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
The African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in this year (within five years).
1816
This 1965 voting rights event turned violent on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Bloody Sunday (Selma to Montgomery march)
This AME bishop helped found the NAACP and was a major civil rights voice.
W.E.B. Du Bois
This worship anthem repeats the phrase, “You know my name.”
You Know My Name
This Atlanta church pastored by Dr. King is named Ebenezer ______ Church.
Baptist