African American Men To Know
African American Women to Know
African American Fight for Liberation
Inventors
Beware of White Women
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Born Malcolm Little and later also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. He was a courageous advocate for self determination.
Who is Malcolm X
100
An American politician, educator, and author. In 1968, she became the first African American woman elected to the United States Congress. In 1972, she became the first black women to run for the office of the President of the United States
What is Shirley Chisholm
100
A political slogan and a name for various associated ideologies aimed at achieving self-determination for people of African/Black descent.
What is Black Power
100
Inventor of a Traffic Signal and Gas Mask
Who is Garrett Morgan
100
An African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly whistling at a white woman.
Who is Emmett Till
200
was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
Who is Marcus Garvey
200
An African abolitionist, humanitarian. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved families and friends, using the network called the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman
200
The practice of murdering, usually by a hanging resulting from extrajudicial mob action. It occurred in the United after the American Civil War in the late 1800s, the emancipation of slaves, and chiefly from the late 1800s through the 1960s.
What is Lynching
200
Invented Thousand of Uses for the Peanut
Who is George Washington Carver
200
The massacre occurred over over a Memorial Day weekend and was triggered when a black man was accused of raping a young white woman.
What is Tulsa Oklahoma Massacre
300
African-American historian, author, journalist. A founder of The Journal of Negro History in 1915, Woodson has been cited as the father of black history month
Who is Carter G. Woodson
300
African-American journalist, newspaper editor, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She wrote and fought extensively against the lynching of African Americans in the 1890s
Who is Ida B. Wells
300
A seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama
What is the Montgomery Bus boycott
300
Pioneer of the Modern Blood Bank
Who is Charles Drew
300
In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers were arrested and charged for brutally attacking and raping a white female jogger in Central Park. News media swarmed the case, calling it "the crime of the century."
Who are the Central Park 5
400
An African-American social reformer, abolitionist, and writer. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement.
Who is Fredrick Douglas
400
African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and a political and social activist. Noted as the first female self-made millionaire in America, she became one of the wealthiest African American women in the country
Who is Madam CJ Walker
400
Most prosperous Black owned business district in 1941
What is Black Wall
400
The inventor of the first rotary blade lawn mower
Who is John Burr
400
9 black teenagers falsely accused in Alabama of raping two White American women on a train in 1931
Who are the Scottsboro Boys
500
An American professional boxer and activist. He refused to be inducted into the U.S. Army and was immediately stripped of his heavyweight title.
Who was Muhammad Ali
500
An African American voting rights activist, civil rights leader, and philanthropist. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi's Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer
500
An enslaved African American who led a slave rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831, that resulted in the deaths of 55 to 65 white people.
Who is Nat Turner
500
Inventor of the famous watergun, the Supersoaker
Who is Lonnie Johnson
500
This artist was arrested on suspicion of assault after police searched his house for a gun he allegedly used to threaten a white woman
Who is Chris Brown
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