Educators
This woman started a school for African American girls and later founded Bethune-Cookman University.
Who is Mary Mcleod Bethune
She was just six years old when she became the first Black child in an all-white school.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
The Closes HBCU to Our School.
What is Norfolk State University
This woman refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, helping to start the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks
He’s considered the greatest NBA player of all time, being the all time leading scorer for the league. Standing tall at 6’8, from Saint Vincent Saint Mary High School and Akron, Ohio.
Who is LeBron James.
This man founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and believed in vocational education for Black students.
Who is Booker T. Washington
Nine Black students helped integrate a school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
This school was started by Booker T. Washington to teach Black students job skills.
What is Tuskegee Institute
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. earned his Ph.D. from this university.
What is Boston University?
The motto "Enter to Learn, Depart to Serve" belongs to this HBCU in Atlanta.
What is Morehouse College
This scientist and teacher found over 300 ways to use peanuts!
Who is George Washington Carver
This young girl led a student protest against unfair schools in 1951.
Who is Barbara Johns
A famous all-Black college for women in Georgia.
What is Spelman College
The Freedom Schools of the 1960s were created to provide Black children with a better education during this movement.
What is the Civil Rights Movement
This person was the first Black president of the United States of America
Who is Barack Obama?
She was the first Black teacher to work in an all-white school in the South.
Who is Charlotte Forten Grimke
He was the first Black student at the University of Mississippi.
Who is James Meredith
Many HBCUs were started because of unfair rules called these.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This organization, known as the NAACP, helped fight for equal educational opportunities for Black students.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
This First Lady created initiative to lower childhood obesity and bring attention to poverty and educational inequities from 2009-2017
Who is Michelle Obama.
This teacher believed all students could succeed and started her own school to help them.
Who is Marva Collins
This Supreme Court case ended segregation in schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education
This famous HBCU is in Washington, D.C.
What is Howard University
In 1954, this Supreme Court case ruled that separate schools for Black and white students were unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world," was said by this famous Black leader.
Who is Nelson Mandela