Ancient African Kingdoms
This King of Mali is widely considered one of the wealthiest people in world history, famous for his lavish pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324.
Mansa Musa
This was the horrific, forced ocean voyage that brought millions of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
The Middle Passage
Nicknamed "Moses," this courageous woman escaped slavery and returned South 13 times to guide over 70 people to freedom.
The first person to refuse to give up her seat on the bus in Alabama.
Claudette Colvin.
Organized in 1961 by CORE and SNCC, these brave activists of both races rode interstate buses into the deep South to challenge illegal bus terminal segregation.
Freedom Rides
Located in modern-day Mali, this ancient city was famous throughout Africa and Europe as a global center of trade, education, and Islamic scholarship.
Timbuktu
After purchasing his freedom, this formerly enslaved man wrote a famous 1789 autobiography detailing the horrors of the slave trade, boosting the abolitionist movement in Britain.
Olaudah Equiano
This secret network of safe houses, hidden routes, and allies helped thousands of enslaved Black Americans escape to northern free states and Canada.
The Underground Railroad
At the 1963 March on Washington, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered this famous speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
" I have a dream speech"
In 1955, her refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama sparked a citywide bus boycott and a major shift in the civil rights movement.
Rosa Parks
Before Mali became the dominant power in West Africa, this empire—whose name literally means "warrior king"—grew rich by controlling the trade routes of gold and salt.
Ghana
Enslaved Africans were forced to work primarily on these large-scale agricultural estates in the Southern U.S., which grew cash crops like cotton, rice, and tobacco.
Plantations
After escaping slavery, this brilliant orator and writer published The North Star newspaper and became one of the nation's leading voices against slavery.
Fredrick Douglass
These students were the first to integrate their high school in Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock 9
: In 1831, this enslaved man led a major 2-day rebellion in Virginia that struck fear into slaveholders and led to harsh new restriction laws across the South.
Nat Turner
These individuals tell stories about the history of Africa and keep the history alive by singing.
Griots
The number of months it takes to get from West Africa to the Americas.
roughly 2-3 months
This person was a conductor on the Underground Railroad and helped Harriet in Philadelphia once she got there.
William Still
This historic 1954 Supreme Court decision ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, overturning "separate but equal."
Brown v. Board of Education
In 1839, enslaved Africans revolted aboard this Spanish ship, eventually winning their freedom in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case.
The Amistad
Name the three west African Kingdoms
Ghana, Songhai, Mali
The first independent Black Country.
Haiti
Born Isabella Baumfree, this abolitionist and women's rights activist gave the famous 1851 speech later titled "Ain't I a Woman?"
Sojourner Truth
In 1960, four Black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina started a nationwide trend of peaceful protest by sitting at a segregated lunch counter at this store.
Woolworth's
This person was against integration and believed in Black pride. He was a huge Civil Rights leader.
Malcolm x