Accomplishments
This person was the first Black umpire in the history of the major leagues.
Emmett Littleton Ashford
On May 31, 1921, racial violence reached its height in Oklahoma, where a thriving and self-reliant Black community was destroyed and over 300 people lost their lives. This event is referred to as what in history?
Tulsa Massacre
World renowned entertainer, World War II spy, and civil rights activist are a few of the titles used to describe this extraordinary person.
Josephine Baker
In 1964, this musical artists released a song in response to the June 12, 1963, murder of Medgar Evers and the September 15, 1963, bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four young Black girls and partly blinded a fifth.
Nina Simone
Coined by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw in 1989, this term describes an analytical framework for understanding how aspects of a person's social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege.
Intersectionality
This civil rights activist co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1964 and ran for Congress in Mississippi in 1965.
Fannie Lou Hamer
During WWI, this Infantry Regiment spent 191 days in combat, more than any other American unit.
The Harlem Hellfighters
Enslaved West Africans brought this grain to the United States.
Rice
This person was the first Black person to headline Coachella.
Prince
This type of language is used to describe perfectly appropriate behavior so that it instead seems inappropriate or threatening.
Inflating language
This person is the first Black woman to head a luxury brand for LVMH, the most valuable company in Europe?
Hint: In 2021, she was declared a National Hero of Barbados
Robyn “Rihanna” Fenty
This framework recognizes race not as a product of individual biases and prejudice, but as a system embedded in U.S. laws, policies, and institutions.
Critical Race Theory
This civil rights activist’s death was the catalyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Jimmie Lee Jackson
This author, who pens her name in all lower-case letters, produced notable works such as the following: “Ain’t I a Woman?”, “Black Women and Feminism”, “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center” and “All About Love: New Visions.”
Bell Hooks
This recruiting process is used to superficially consider a candidate from an underrepresented demographic for a position.
Token interview
This is the first Black person to achieve the “Triple Crown of Acting”?
Viola Davis
This Bill’s implementation helped drive growing gaps in wealth, education, and civil rights between white and Black Americans.
GI Bill
This NFL policy requires every team with a head coach or executive position vacancy to interview at least one or more diverse candidates.
Rooney Rule
This person is the first Black woman to win an Olympic medal in speed skating in 2022.
Erin Jackson
This term refers to someone who sees wrongdoing and takes action.
Upstander
This phenomenal poet wrote the poem “And Still I rise”, a message of survival and hope.
Maya Angelou
This Amendment prohibited states from taking away the right to vote “on the account of race, color or previous condition of servitude”.
The 15th Amendment
This self-made millionaire was born on a cotton plantation in Louisiana and became wealthy after inventing a line of African American hair products.
Madame CJ Walker
This term is used to describe the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes and race.
Womanism
Axes of this strategy include Appearance-based, Affiliation-based, Advocacy-based and Association-based.
Covering