How it started!
Juneteenth became a federal holiday this year.
What was 2021?
During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This principle was extended to parks, cemeteries, theatres, and restaurants in an effort to prevent any contact between Blacks and whites as equals.
What was segregation?
Sarah Breedlove Walker (1867–1919), also known as ___________, is probably the most famous African American woman inventor. She invented the hot comb and a pomade to make hair soft and shiny.
Who was Madame C J Walker?
He is known as "King of Ragtime".
Who is Scott Joplin?
The oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the end of the slavery on June 19th.
What is Juneteenth?
Won the Civil War.
Who was the Union?
Jim Crow laws were introduced in the _________states of the United States?
What were the Southern states?
________________1864?–1943) was an agricultural chemist famous for improving the lives of poor farmers through new farming methods.
Who was George Washington Carver?
Jazz music originated here.
What is New Orleans, LA?
First state to recognize Juneteenth as an official state holiday.
What is Texas?
This military unit was the most decorated during the World War I?
Who were the Harlem Hellfighters?
The period after Juneteenth was called________. Despite the order to remain in place, the newly freed people left Texas in vast numbers to find family members.
What is Scatter?
He was a member of Thomas Edison’s research team and later became the head draftsman for General Electric. This patent Globe Supporter for Electric Lamp, issued in 1882, improved the stability of electric lamps.
Who was Lewis Howard Latimer?
A movie about a former beauty queen tries to push her teenage daughter to compete in a local beauty pageant in Fort Worth, Texas.
What is Ms. Juneteenth?
He was known as the "Father of Juneteenth" and showing appreciation for successfully passing Texas House Bill 1016. A Texas bill to recognize Juneteenth as an official holiday.
Who was Texas Rep Al Edwards??
The war that started our Black Soldiers defending our nation since 1775.
What is the Revolutionary War?
The laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.
What is was Jim Crow?
Macaroni pie/ mac and cheese creator who was an African American enslaved in Virginia.
Who was James Hemings?
The Tap Dance creator
Who is Master Juba, born William Henry Lane?
Early Juneteenth family gatherings started the celebration with a ______________.
What is prayer?
He was widely celebrated as the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II,[4] and has been described as the most highly decorated soldier in U.S. history.
Who was Audit Leon Murphy?
The Jim Crow laws and high rate of lynchings in the South were major factors that lead to the Great______ during the first half of the 20th Century.
What was the Great Migration?
Created first interracial hospital and training school. First African American physician admitted to the American College of Surgeons.
Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
Juneteenth (1999) is the second novel by this American writer.
Who is Ralph Ellison?