Activists
Sojourner Truth's Birth Name
What is Isabella Baumfree
She was a nurse and spy for the Union Forces during the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
First Black Harvard graduate
Who is Richard Theodore Greener?
Duo protested United States racism at the 1968 Olympics by giving the Black Power salute during the Medals Ceremony
Who are John Carlos and Tommie Smith?
Plessy v. Ferguson court case rule that "Separate but Equal" was legal
What is 1896?
He was the first person to popularize the phrase "Black Power"
Who is Stokeley Carmichael
Joseph Cinque was placed aboard this slave ship headed from Puerto Principe
What is the Amistad?
First historically black college established by an act of Congress
What is Howard University?
Church where four young girls died in a 1963 bombing
What is the Sixteenth Street Church?
United States ratified the amendment to the US Constitution that abolished slavery
What is 1865?
Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech at this historic location
What is the Lincoln Memorial?
The trip from Africa to North America for slaves is known as
What is the Middle Passage?
This Act of 1862 provided federal land-grant funds for higher education
What is the Morrill Act of 1862?
Four freshmen from this college began the Woolworth sit-ins in 1960
What is North Carolina A&T?
March on Washington
What is 1963?
Abolitionist newspaper founded by Frederick Douglass
What is the North Star?
He escaped slavery by being mailed in a box from Richmond, Virginia to Philadelphia
Who is Henry Brown?
He joined the Communist Party and moved to Ghana
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
Harriet Tubman was referenced as this biblical character
Who is Moses?
U.S. Senate pass Resolution 39 apologizing for the practice of lynching in the U.S.
What is 2005?
Member of the Nation of Islam born with the last name Little.
Who is Malcolm X?
According to the Confederate Constitution, when could slavery be abolished?
Never
Booker T. Washington was the founder of this Historical Black University
What is Tuskegee?
He refused to be inducted into the military
Who is Muhammed Ali?
Thurgood Marshall appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court
What is 1967?