_________ was the first African American to win a Grammy award for Album of the year.
Stevie Wonder
The NAACP is a civil rights organization established to advance justice for African American people. What does NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
This was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its thirteen North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. It also saw many people in America, including slaves, convert to Christianity
The Great Awakening
This woman founded a school in Daytona, Florida. It started out as the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in 1904 and is now a university.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Who said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater and politics centered in a neighborhood in New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s.
Harlem Renaissance
Fill in the Blank: The Negro Motorist _________ Book was a comprehensive guide for Black travelers about locations across America—and eventually overseas—that were either Black-owned or didn't engage in segregationist practices.
Green
This man is believed to have been the one to first bring the message of Jesus Christ to Africa
The Ethiopian Eunuch
This man was the first person to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He also was the co-founder of the NAACP.
W.E.B. Dubois
Who said, "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired"?
Fannie Lou Hammer
American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and a leader in the civil rights movement
This man won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin in the area of track and field.
Jessie Owens
This man was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1963 to 1966 and later served as a member of the House of Representatives for the state of Georgia.
John Lewis
This man, a popular Chicago blues pianist turned gospel songwriter, is believed to be the founder of gospel music
Thomas Dorsey
Known as the Hidden Figures, Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson paved the way for black people in science while working for this organization.
NASA
Who said, "We have a wonderful history behind us, and it is going to inspire us to greater achievements."
Hint: He was also considered to be the "father of black history" as he founded Negro History Week, the precursor to Black History Month
Carter G. Woodson
This woman was the first black woman to be principal dancer for the American Ballet Theater.
Misty Copeland
This amendment to the Constitution made slavery illegal in United States.
13th Amendment
As they grew black churches also became the centers of communities, serving as school sites, taking up social welfare functions such as providing for the indigent, and going on to establish orphanages and prison ministries. As a result, black churches were particularly important during the ________ ________ Movement.
Civil Rights
This man taught himself astronomy and math to become America's "First Known African American Man of Science".
Benjamin Banneker
This woman was one of showbiz’s most iconic performers but left the United States due to the overt racism she encountered. She moved to France, renounced her U.S. citizenship and becoming a spy for the French during WWII. During her travels across Europe to perform she would conceal messages within her costumes or her sheet music for other French spies.
Josephine Baker
This woman was the first black woman to win a Grammy in 1959 for her improvised jazz solo.
Ella Fitzgerald
This was a political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California with the purpose of empowering black people.
Black Panther Party
The Free African Society was one of the first black church created by what two Methodist preachers?
Absalom Jones and Richard Allen
On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its verdict in ________________, ruling unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment’s mandate of equal protection of the laws of the U.S. Constitution to any person within its jurisdiction.
Brown v. Board of Education
Who said,
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
Langston Hughes