Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King jr. helped orchestrate this famous boycott.
Montgomery bus boycott
~ was a political and social protest against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
He sang the hit song "What's going on."
Marvin Gaye
What black inventor invented the potato chip?
Who is C: George Crum
Who was the first black woman in space?
Mae C Jemison
She led dangerous missions to liberate hundreds of slaves through the Underground Railroad.
Harriett
Martin Luther King Jr was imprisoned this many times.
29 times
According to the King Center, the civil rights leader went to jail 29 times. He was arrested for acts of civil disobedience and on trumped-up charges, such as when he was jailed in Montgomery, Alabama in 1956 for driving 30 miles per hour in a 25 mile per hour zone.
He sang the hit song "What a Wonderful World"
Louis Armstrong
He was the inventor of automatically opening and closing elevator doors.
Alexander Miles
Who was the first black supreme court justice?
Justice Thurgood Marshall
Free State of Jones
MLK delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on these steps.
What is the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Delivered to over 250, 000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C, the speech was a defining moment of the civil rights movement.
She sang this song as a member of the Supremes, "You Can't Hurry Love"
Diana Ross
She is known for the invention of a durable hairbrush.
Lyda D. Newman
Who was the first black senator?
Hiram Rhodes Revels
What is the movie called with Martin Luther King?
SELMA
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is observed on this day.
what is the Third Monday of January each year.
Her hit song included "At Last."
Etta James
She invented the folding bed.
Sarah E. Goode
This was a network of people, African American as well as White, offering shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the South.
What is the Underground Railroad
What is the movie called with Katherine Johnson
Hidden Figures
Martin Luther King was posthumously awarded these medals.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.
she is known as the Queen of Disco and had this hit song in the 1970, "Last Dance."
Donna Summer
She invented cosmetics for African-American women.
Annie Turnbo Malone
Formerly enslaved person and famed writer hid fugitives in his home, helping 400 escapees make their way to Canada.
Who is Frederick Douglass
What is the movie called where a runaway slave and his family find help from the underground railroad starring Cuba Gooding Jr.
FREEDOM