Folklore & Injustice
What was the name of the all-Black fighter pilots that overcame racial prejudice to werve in the war?
Tuskegee Airmen
Who broke the "color barrier" in Major League Baseball in 1947?
Jackie Robinson
What was the name of the organization that had important wins in the cases of Sweatt v. Painter, Nixon v. Herndon, and Morgan v. Virginia?
NAACP
Who was a civil rights activist that played a crucial role in the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas?
Daisy Bates
Exodusters Movement
What organization had the main purpose of advocating for Native American rights by using direct action?
American Indian Movement (AIM)
What style of music, rooted in the Black experience, started in the Mississippi Delta in the late 1800s?
The Blues
What organziation created programs like the Free Breakfast for School Children to address issues and provide essential services for Black communities?
The Black Panther Party
Who became the American Ballet Theatre's first Black female principal dancer?
Misty Copeland
What is the meaning of HBCU which were created for educating Black students?
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
What had a major effect and was used to justify harcher prison sentences on young Black Americans?
Super-Predator Myth
What African American singer is known by the title 'The Mother of the Blues'?
Ma Rainey
Who started the Black Panther Party in 1966?
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
Who had legal victories in court to help dismantle racial segregation while working for the NAACP and later joined the Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
What Supreme Court decision in 1950 challenged the "separate but equal" idea in higher education?
Sweatt v. Painter case
What was used as a tool for resistance, communication and social activism to help African Americans during hardship?
African Oral Storytelling
Who is known as the King of Ragtime music?
Scott Joplin
Who was the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association?
Marcus Garvey
Who launched the Black Enterprise magazine and had a main goal of promoting Black Economic empowerment?
Earl G. Graves, Sr.
What movement connected with other civil rights/minority groups by forming alliances to fight justice?
Chicano Movement
The Anansi folklore character is originally from what region of Africa?
West Africa
Who was the first Black man in the United States to publish his writings?
Jupiter Hammon
What 3 organizations were established to advocate for the legal rights of minority communities in America?
NAACP, MALDEF, AALDEF
Who are two young activist that use modern tools to address current social justice issues?
Marley Dias and Zyahna Bryant
What is a factor that contributed to the growth of mass incarceration among Black and minority communities in the US?
Three-Strikes Policy, Mandatory minimum sentencing, & Super-Predator Theory