General Black History
He is known as the "Father of Black History," having started Negro History Week in 1926 which later became Black History Month.
Who is Carter G Woodson?
These segregation and disenfranchisement laws represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century beginning in the 1890s.
What is Jim Crow laws?
This African American author wrote the "Autobiography of Malcolm X"; but is better known for his novel, "Roots: The Saga of an American Family," which traced his ancestry back to Africa.
Who is Alex Haley?
This political organization was founded in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community.
What is the Black Panther Party?
Apartheid was a system of institutionalized racial segregation that existed in this African country from 1948 until the early 1990s.
What is South Africa?
Choosing to remain seated rather than give up her seat, she is often called the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement."
Who is Rosa Parks?
This executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863 changed the federal legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the designated areas of the South from slave to free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Originally called the New Negro Movement, this period was a literary and intellectual flowering that fostered a new black cultural identity in the 1920s and 1930s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
She is an American political activist, academic, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist in the 1960s working with the Communist Party USA, of which she was a member until 1991, and was briefly involved in the Black Panther Party during the Civil Rights Movement. She is a professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in its History of Consciousness Department and a former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.
Who is Angela Davis?
This West African country was a British colony formerly known as the "Gold Coast."
What is Ghana?
This African American Baptist minister became the most visible spokesperson for the Civil Rights Movement from 1954-1968 and is best known for his "I Have a Dream Speech."
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This landmark United States Supreme Court case declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. The Board of Education?
His jazzy big smile earned this African American trumpet player, composer, singer and occasional actor, the nickname "Satchmo." He was one of the most influential figures in jazz.
She is a former member of the Black Liberation Army, who was convicted (under New Jersey's "aiding and abetting" statute) of first-degree murder in 1973. In 1979, she escaped from prison, and in 1984, she surfaced in Cuba, where she was granted political asylum.
Who is Assata Shakur?
He is a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017.
Who is Robert Mugabe?
He is an American attorney and politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is the first Black president of the United States.
Who is Barack H. Obama?
This amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This musical genre was formed during the 1970s when block parties became increasingly popular in New York City, particularly among African-American youth residing in the Bronx.
What is Hip Hop?
This term refers to both a political slogan popularized between the 1960s and the 1980s, and various ideologies aimed at achieving self-determination for black people.
What is "Black Power"?
He was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre and human rights activist.
Who is Fela Kuti?
He 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 and incisive antislavery writings.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896 upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Taking place in rural Georgia and focusing on the life of African-American women in the Southern United States in the 1930s, this 1982 epistolary novel won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name.
What is "The Color Purple"?
This current international activist movement, originating in the African-American community, campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people.
What is "Black Lives Matter"?
He is the wealthiest 14th century emperor of the Mali Empire known to the world outside Africa.
"Who is Mansa Musa"?