Politics
What was the name of the 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.
a) Roe Vs Wade
b) King Vs. Detroit
c) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, (1954)
c) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, (1954)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional
She started a hair care line and become the first self-made African American female millionaire
Madam CJ Walker
First African American to play in Major League Baseball
Jackie Robinson
This group took the midnight train to Georgia
Gladys Knight & the Pips
W.E.B. DuBois was a founding member of this organization that is still in operation today
N.A.A.C.P.
Harriet Tubman
In 1921 mobs of white people burned down what was then the wealthiest black community in the United States, located where
1) New York
2) Tulsa, Oklahoma
3) Birmingham, Alabama
4) Little Rock, Arkansas
2) Tulsa, Oklahoma
The attack, carried out on the ground and from private aircraft, destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the district— known as "Black Wall Street"
This woman, known for her efforts to free enslaved people via the underground railroad, is was known as 'Black moses'
Harriet Tubman
Benjamin Banneker created
1) first rocket grenade
2) Cotton gin
3) velcro
4) America's first clock
4) America's first clock -
A free black man who owned a farm near Baltimore, Benjamin Banneker was largely self-educated in astronomy and mathematics. He was later called upon to assist in the surveying of territory for the construction of the nation's capital. He also became an active writer of almanacs and exchanged letters with Thomas Jefferson, politely challenging him to do what he could to ensure racial equality.
Who was the first American athlete to win 4 gold medals in one Olympics
a) jessie jackson
b) jessie parker
c) jessie owens
c) Jesse Owens?
Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump, and was recognized in his lifetime as "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history".[3] He set three world records and tied another, all in less than an hour
In 1989 this dance album by which member of the Jackson family went quadruple platinum
Who is Janet Jackson?
No, this group founded by Huey Newton was not from Wakanda
Black Panthers
The Black Panthers, also known as the Black Panther Party, was a political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community.
Bryan Stevenson, the subject of what recent film, launched a museum to commemorate enslavement and mass incarceration
Just Mercy
This mother of the civil right movement was already an activist before refusing to sit at the back of the bus
Rosa Parks
This constitutional amendment prohibited the denial of voting rights based on race, color, or previous status as an enslaved person
a) 11th amendment
b) 12th amendment
c) 18th amendment
d) 15th amendment
d) 15th Amendment
The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
Sarah Boone was one of the first black women to receive a patent by improving this:
a) refrigerator
b) ironing board
c) tupperware containers
d) cookie sheets
b) Ironing board
Born enslaved, Boone expanded upon the original ironing board, which was essentially a horizontal wooden block originally patented in 1858. With Boone’s 1892 additions, the board featured a narrower and curved design, making it easier to iron garments, particularly women’s clothing.
He batted .202 for the Birmingham Barons (but you probably know him best for his shoes)
Michael Jordan
This Former enslaved person and noted abolitionist published the abolitionist newspaper The North Star
Frederick Douglas
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1817 – February 20, 1895)[1][5] was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory[6] and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens
In 1965, this overturned efforts by state legislators to disenfranchise African American voters
a) Plessy versus Ferguson
b) Voting Rights Act
c) 18th amendment
d) Act for Racial Equality
b) Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by U.S President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement on August 6, 1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections.
What nation was created as a result of an uprising of enslaved people
1) Colombia
b) Guatemala
c) Haiti
d) Liberia
c) The Haitian revolution was the only slave uprising that led to the founding of a state which was both free from slavery, and ruled by non-whites and former captives
This popular human rights activist and member of the Nation of Islam advocated for black empowerment during the civil rights movement
Malcolm x
the 5th African American ever to be elected to the US Senate
a) Barack Obama
b) Michelle Obama
c) Tim Scott
d) Kamala Harris
Barack Obama
Lewis Latimer created
1) thumbtacks
2) the first tea kettle
3) electric lamp
4) carpet
3) Electric Lamp
In 1881, Latimer invented a light bulb with a carbon filament, an improvement on Thomas Edison's original paper filament,
This boxer changed his name from Cassius Clay after converting to Islam
Muhammad Ali
This popular Canadian rapper had God's Plan
Drake
This Chicago teen was brutally lynched in Mississippi in in 1955
1) Ray Marshall
2) w.e.b dubois
3) emmet till
4) Harvey Milk
3) Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store.
What are the greensboro 4 known for
a) Sitting in at woolworth lunch counter
b) Being the first black astronauts
c) First medical school graduates from harvard
a) Sitting in at Woolworth lunch counter
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, primarily in the Woolworth store, now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum, in Greensboro, North Carolina,[1] which led to the F. W. Woolworth Company department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.[2] While not the first sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, and also the best-known sit-ins of the Civil Rights Movement. They are considered a catalyst to the subsequent sit-in movement, in which 70,000 people participated.
This US representative organized the 1963 March on Washington
a) John Lewis
b) Ricky Jackson
c) Thurgood Marshall
d) Brigham Young
a) John Lewis
Often called "one of the most courageous persons the Civil Rights Movement ever produced," John Lewis has dedicated his life to protecting human rights, securing civil liberties, and building what he calls "The Beloved Community” in America.
The first African American woman to be elected to the US Senate
a) Rosa Parks
b) Carol Mosely Braun
c) Octavia Butler
d) Gloria King
Carol Moseley Braun
The first African–American woman Senator, Carol Moseley–Braun was also only the second black Senator since the Reconstruction Era.
Lonnie Johnson created what toy
a) stretch armstrong
b) bratz dolls
c) electric train
d) super soaker
Super Soaker
Lonnie George Johnson (born October 6, 1949) is an American inventor, aerospace engineer, and entrepreneur, whose work history includes a U.S. Air Force term of service and a twelve-year stint at NASA, including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He invented the Super Soaker water gun in 1990
She has won over 93 million dollars in prize money, more than any other female athlete
Serena Williams
The gang had sugar on the hill with this 1st main stream radio rap song
Rappers's delight
Mae Jameison was the first African American to do what?
a) make one million dollars
b) travel to space
c) conduct heart surgery
d) pass the bar exam
b) Travel to space
Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
She wrote, I know why the caged bird sang
a) maya angelou
b) coretta scott king
b) ella fitzgerald
a) Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography describing the early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma.
What was the group name of the nine registered to be the first African Americans to attend Central High School in Little Rock?
a) the desegregators
b) the little rock nine
c) the black beauties
d) the empowerment team
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.