Civil Rights
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Rosa Parks
"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
This person believed in peace over violence.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This African American mathematician was a NASA employee. Her calculations were critical to the success of travel into space.
Katherine Johnson
What year did the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court rule the segregation of schools unconstitutional?
1954
Did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. found an organization? If so, what was the name of the organization?
Yes.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
"When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings."
this person became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909.
W.E.B Dubois
African-American choreographer and activist credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African American participation.
He also founded an American Dance Theater in New York City.
Alvin Ailey
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
A civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956
What African American was the Nation of Islam's most effective leader?
Malcolm X
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
African American social reformer, abolitionist. He escaped slavery and became known as an anti-slavery writer and leader in the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York.
Frederick Douglass
This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time”. He was originally named after his father.
Muhammad Ali
Why is June 19, 1865 a significant day in History?
On Juneteenth, the Union Army arrived in Texas with news that the Civil War had ended and that all former slaves were now free.
When did the Civil Rights Movement take place?
1950s and 1960s
"You write in order to change the world … if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it."
African American writer born in Harlem, New York. He broke new literary ground with the exploration of racial and social issues in his many works.
James Baldwin
Famous African American poet, singer and activist who created poems like "Still I Rise" and "Why the Caged Bird Sings".
Maya Angelou
What was the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman, perhaps the most well-known conductor of the Underground Railroad, helped hundreds of runaway slaves escape to freedom.