Civil Rights
History
Athens Area History A
Athens Area History B
Hodge Podge
100
This is to whom Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed his Letter from Birmingham City Jail.
Who are clergymen?
100
William L. Still organized this for Black youth in 1880.
What is the YMCA?
100
In July 1867 a large crowd of African-Americans flocked to the UGA Chapel and were prevented from witnessing these events.
What are commencement exercises?
100
The name of Athens' first Black church, which opened its doors in 1866.
What is Pierce's Chapel?
100
This theatre, located in Athens, is one of the oldest surviving vaudeville theaters built, owned, and operated by African-Americans.
What is the Morton Theatre?
200
This gold medal is awarded annually to an African-American for the highest achievement in his field of activity.
What is the Spingarn Medal?
200
He was a slave narrator who was also an antislavery lecturer, novelist, dramatist, and historian.
Who was William Wells Brown?
200
According to the Freedman's Bureau, the number of homes blacks purchased in Athens by the summer of 1867, just two years after gaining their freedom.
What is 70?
200
The name of Athens' first school for Blacks, which opened in 1868.
What is the Knox Institute?
200
He was the first African-American pitcher in the American League.
Who is Satchel Paige?
300
In 1965, this Alabama city was the starting point for the historic five-day march to the state capital?
What is Selma?
300
He was the first Black American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Who was William Carney?
300
This was the date in which Black Athenians first voted in a local election.
What is October 29, 1867?
300
Jereul Academy changed its name to this in 1924.
What is Union?
300
He was the first African-American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
400
This landmark Supreme Court ruling declared racial segregation in schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka in 1954?
400
This anti-slavery newspaper was founded by Frederick Douglass.
What is The North Star?
400
This was called the Purge of 1868.
What was the expulsion of 25 Black state representatives from the Georgia General Assembly?
400
They were the first two Black students admitted to the University of Georgia.
Who are Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes?
400
The name of the first all Black medical school.
What is Meharry Medical College?
500
These were two measures designed to deter Black voters from voting.
What are poll taxes and literacy tests?
500
This was the first southern city to integrate all of its public facilities.
What is San Antonio, Texas?
500
He was the first Black Athenian elected to the Georgia General Assembly since Reconstruction.
Who is Michael L. Thurmond?
500
In 1910, she became Athens' and Georgia's first female Black dentist.
Who is Dr. Ida Mae Hiram?
500
She was the first African-American singer to be admitted to the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York City.
Who is Marian Anderson?
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