Important Dates
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who am I?
Malcolm X
Misc.
100
Fourteenth Amendment is ratified,allowing Blacks to become citizens
What is 1868
100
Who did Martin Luther King Jr. marry?
What is Coretta Scott
100
best known as the first African American to win the individual all-around event in gymnastics, and won a team gold medal for the U.S. at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
What is Gabby Douglas
100
What is Malcolm X birth name
What is Malcolm Little
100
The famous riot that happened because of Aug. 9, 2014 Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old teenager in Missouri.
What is Ferguson, Missouri
200
when was the NAACP is founded
What is 1909
200
Martin Luther King Jr. first attended what College to received a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology
What is Morehouse
200
became the first Black Miss America
What is Vanessa Williams
200
What is Malcolm X religion
What is Muslim
200
this famous person escapes to Philadelphia and subsequently helps about 300 enslaved people to freedom via the Underground Railroad
What is Harriet Tubman
300
when did the South seceded from Union and Civil War begins
What is 1861
300
On August 28th 1963 at a historic march in Washington DC for jobs, freedom, racial equality and the end of discrimination Martin Luther King delivered what famous speech?
What is " I have a dream "
300
became the first Black to play Major League Baseball
What is Jackie Robinson
300
When was Malcolm X, former minister in the Nation of Islam and civil-rights activist, assassinated
What is 1965
300
This landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
400
when did President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring“all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State,the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States,shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free”
What is 1863
400
When is Martin Luther King Jr. Day?
What is the third Monday on January
400
became the first Black member of Congress
What is Hiram Revels
400
What is Malcolm X wife`s name, who later became a prominent civil rights and human rights activist in her own right in the aftermath of her husband's death
What is Betty Shabazz (Sanders)
400
The famous set of laws in U.S. history, statutes enacted by Southern states and municipalities, beginning in the 1880s, that legalized segregation between blacks and whites. The name is believed to be derived from a character in a popular minstrel song.
What is Jim Crow Laws
500
When did Barack Obama becomes first Black president
What is 2009
500
In February 1959 , Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to India to study this famous person because King admired his principles of non-violence and used peaceful resistance to fight against racial discrimination.
What is Mahatma Gandhi
500
became the first Black Surgeon General
What is Dr. Joycelyn Elders
500
Where was Malcolm`s place of birth ? Where was his place of death?
What is Nebraska, New York
500
Which amendment gave the right to blacks to vote?
What is 15th Amendment
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