BLM
What year was the BLM movement started?
What is 2013
It is the use of unnecessary and excessive force by police in their encounters with civilians.
What is police brutality.
He wrote A Letter From Birmingham Jail while in jail after being arrested during a peaceful protest.
Who is Dr. MLK Jr.
True or False: Samuel L. Jackson was the star of Black Panther?
False: It was Chadwick Boseman
Who is the first African American Olympian to win the All Around Title in gymnastics?
Who is Gabby Douglas
True or False: BLM is a global organization?
True. It's in the US, the UK, and Canada.
The use of race or ethnicity for suspecting someone of committing an offense/crime.
What is racial profiling
Who inspired Dr. MLK Jr. to start a non-violent protest based his own non-violent protests in India?
Who is Gandhi
True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation gave African Americans the right to vote?
False. It was an executive order by President Abraham Lincoln to free the slaves.
Who was the first black Major League Baseball player?
Who is Jackie Robinson
BLM was started in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman who murdered _______.
Who is Trayvon Martin
Say Their Names: What is the name of the 12 year old boy that was shot by police officers in Cleveland?
Who is Tamir Rice?
They wrote, “We further strongly urge our own Negro community to withdraw support from these demonstrations, and to unite locally in working peacefully for a better Birmingham," as a response to the protest in Birmingham, Alabama.
Who are the 8 clergymen
True. The first African American Justice on the Supreme Court was Thurgood Marshall.
Who invented the traffic signal?
Who is Garret Morgan
Name the other two movements founded in opposition of the BLM movement.
Hint: ___________ lives matter.
What is all lives matter and blue lives matter.
Say Their Names: She is the woman who was shot to death while asleep in her own apartment.
Who is Breonna Taylor
True or False: Dr. MLK Jr. felt that the clergymen were people of good will and wanted to respond with patience and reasonable terms.
True.
True or False: Dr. MLK Jr. triggered the boycott of the Montgomery bus system, by not giving up his seat to a white passenger?
False. It was Rosa Parks.
Who is the African American woman who helped hundreds of slaves in the southern States escape to freedom?
Who is Harriet Tubman
True or False: The BLM movement means that ONLY Black Lives Matter.
False. BLM is a movement that stands up for all of the oppressed, no matter the color of their skin.
Say Their Name: He was choked to death by a police officer's knee after being accused of giving a cashier a counterfeit $20 bill.
Who is George Floyd
The police officer was said to have knelt on Floyd's neck for almost 9 minutes.
The clergymen called Dr. MLK Jr.'s actions _______.
What is extreme.
True or False: Ruby Bridges was the first African American to attend a white school?
True. She was 6 years old and had to be escorted to school by U.S. Marshals to not be attacked by violent mobs, who were throwing things at her and shouting racial and disrespectful words at her.
Who started Black History Month?
A) Abraham Lincoln
B) Rosa Parks
C) Carter J. Woodson
Who is Carter J. Woodson