Black People
This sister duo became the top black female tennis players
Who is Serena and Venus Williams
What is the meaning of BLM
What is Black Lives Matter
This idea refers to a set of policies and practices within a government or organization seeking to include particular groups based on their gender, race, sexuality, creed or nationality in areas in which they are underrepresented such as education and employment
What is Affirmative Action
This is the year that President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation
What is 1863
The black Chicago teen was brutally murdered after allegedly whistling at a white woman
Who is Emmett Till
This woman was the first Black Miss America
Who is Vanessa Williams
This physical action was done by athletes across the world to show their support of the movement
What is taking a knee/kneeling
This Supreme Court ruling ruled that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional
What is Brown vs the Board of Education of Topeka
This march only had 400,000 attendees despite its grand name
What is the Million Man March
This park in NYC was created after demolishing a middle class black village
What is Central Park
This person is the most financially successful African American painter in history
Who is Jean-Michel Basquiat
What main concept is BLM fighting against
What is police brutality
This amendment guarantees that the right to vote cannot be denied because of race, color or previous servitude
What is the 15th Amendment
This movement was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in a NY burrow spanning the 1920s and 1930s
What is the Harlem Renaissance
This experiment was conducted on Black men that were told they were receiving treatment for "bad blood" when they were actually receiving no treatment at all
What is The Tuskegee Study/Experiment
This Black guitarist was hailed by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as “the most gifted instrumentalist of all time.”
Who is Jimi Hendrix
This is the number of black people killed by police in 2021
What is 200
In 1970, this state's Department of Public Safety was told by a Federal Court that they need to reform their hiring practices to end discriminatory exclusion of Blacks
What is Alabama
This HBCU begins to offer education for Blacks and ex-slaves of all ages in 1867
What is Fisk University
This person, dubbed 'Father Of Gynecology', conducted painful experimental surgeries on enslaved Black women without anesthesia and without their consent
Who is J. Marion Sims
This Black woman helped calculate the orbit for the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the moon
Who is Katherine Johnson
BLM was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of what black teens murder
Who is Trayvon Martin
This President issued executive order 10925 which makes first reference to affirmative action on March 6th 1961
Who is President JFK
This national landmark was the location of MLK's "I Have A Dream" speech
What is the Lincoln Memorial
This is the number of lynching that occurred in the US between 1882 and 1968
What is 4800