LA County Black Facts
This WNBA legend, who played for the Los Angeles Sparks, was the first player to dunk in a WNBA game and is a three-time MVP
Who is Lisa Leslie
This African American man was a Muslim minister, human rights activist, and a prominent figure during the Civil Rights Movement. He was a vocal advocate for Black empowerment
Who is Malcolm X
This memorial was opened in 2011 by Barack Obama, America’s first Black president
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington D.C.
This person is the longest serving Mayor of Los Angeles
Who is Tom Bradley
From 1954 to 1968, this was a nonviolent social and political movement and campaign to abolish legalized institutional racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement throughout the United States.
What is The Civil Rights Movement
Both the National Civil Rights Museum and the Beale Street Historic District are located in this southern US city
What is Memphis
She represented the 2nd District on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1992–2008 and served as Chair of Los Angeles County four times
Who is Yvonne Brathwaite Burke
This is the nickname of a group of African American students who were registered by the NAACP to attend a previously all-white High School in Arkansas in 1957. They were prevented from entering the school by the Governor of Arkansas until President Dwight D. Eisenhower intervened.
Who are The Little Rock Nine
Once of of the wealthiest Black communities in the United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma's Greenwood District was known by this nickname.
What is Black Wall Street
This beachfront property in Manhattan Beach, seized from a Black family in the 1920s, was returned to their descendants in 2022 after years of advocacy
What is Bruce's Beach
This women became the first African American woman to get elected for congress.
Who is Shirley Chisolm
Africatown, home to some of the last survivors of the transatlantic slave trade, was founded by descendants of some of the enslaved people aboard what ship?
What is the Clotilda
In 1856, when slavery was illegal in California, a LA District Judge approved this woman's petition for freedom.
Who is Bridget "Biddy" Mason
This outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights in the nineteenth century changed her name from Isabella Bornfree to this
What is Sojouner Truth
Named after a Lt. Col, this California State Historic Park is what remains of a thriving town built by and for African Americans in the early 1900's.
What is Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park