Government
In 2008, this senator from Illinois was elected president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
This national movement took place in the 1950s and 1960s to secure equal rights for all American citizens under the law.
What is the Civil Rights movement?
In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered this speech.
What is the I have a dream Speech?
Who is Tiger Woods?
This Marvel movie staring Chadwick Boseman is up for 7 Oscars including best picture.
What is Black Panther?
In 2018, she became the first naturalized citizen from Africa and the first Somali-American elected to the United States Congress.
Who is Ilhan Omar?
In 1863, president Lincoln delivered this announcement declaring all slaves in rebellious territories forever free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
In 1849, she escaped slavery to freedom and risked returning many times as an instrumental leader of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
In 2016, she became the first Muslim woman to compete for the US in fencing, first US Olympian to compete in a Hijab, and first Muslim-American to win an Olympic medal.
Who is Ibtihaj Muhammad?
This music power couple have won 43 Grammy's.
Who are Beyoncé and Jay-Z?
In 2001, the US senate confirmed her nomination for Secretary of State.
Who is Condoleezza Rice?
In 1944, Franklin Roosevelt signed into action this bill increasing college access for all service men and women, which that significantly increased enrollment of students of color in Northern colleges and universities.
What is the GI Bill?
This pre-college program came into being in 1965 as a means to secure resources and support necessary to help students access and succeed in college.
What is Upward Bound?
Who is Gabby Douglas?
In 2001, she became the first African American actress to win the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Who is Halle Berry?
In 1967, he became the first African American supreme court justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
In 1954, in this case the Supreme Court ruled segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
In 1955, She refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, an offense she was arrested.
Who is Rosa Parks?
He was the first African American tennis player to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon.
Who is Arthur Ashe?
In 1996, he was the first African American to be named People's Sexiest Man Alive.
Who is Denzel Washington?
In 1968, Shirley Chisholm became the first African American to serve in this branch of the US Federal Government?
Congress passed this Act in 1965 to was successful in securing voting rights of African Americans by removing many obstacles, setting regulation, and finally ending the poll tax.
What is the Voting Rights Act? :)
A renaissance man and instrumental leader for black rights and prosperity, he wrote The Souls of Black Folk in 1903 and was leader of the first Pan African Congress in 1919.
Who is W.E.B Du Bois?
Over 100 years after the first professional game of baseball was played, he became the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
In 2015, this actress and TRIO Upward Bound alumnus was the first Black women to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress for her role in the hit show How to Get Away with Murder.
Who is Viola Davis?