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Name the landmark civil rights legislation that ended segregation in public schools in America.
What is Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, KS
Name the contribution of Duke Ellington
What is composer, pianist, and bandleader.
Name the contribution of Langston Hughes
What is poet, novelist, playwright
Who were the Freedom Riders
The first African American Woman to win the us Open Tennis Championship
Who is Althea Gibson
Explain the "Separate but equal" ruling of the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson
Segregation is legal as long as there are equal facilities and services available to black people
Name the contribution of Romare Bearden
This is the name given to an African American cultural awakening in the north, for music and literature
What is the Harlem Renaissance
Who was the found of the Congress of Racial Equality
This black woman had polio as a child and went on to win five Olympic gold medals in track and field
Who is Wilma Rudolph
Identify a main point of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
What is prohibits any state from denying any citizen the right to vote.
This actress was the first African American to win an Oscar
Who is Hattie McDaniel
This Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved was the first African American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Who is Toni Morrison
What does the Civil Rights Act of 1965 prohibit
This basketball legend, a six-time NBA champion, became the first former NBA player to become the majority owner of a league franchise when he purchased the Charlotte Hornets in 2010.
Who is Michael Jordan
Name the main civil and legal protections guaranteed by the 14th Amendment
All men born in the US are citizens entitled to due process and equal protection of the law.
What film was she a cast member
What is Gone with the Wind
This author wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, a story about her own life and growing up with courage.
Who is Maya Angelou?
What happened in Selma, Alabama known as Bloody Sunday
At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, this track and field star won four gold medals, shattering Adolf Hitler’s vision of Aryan supremacy.
Who is Jessie Owens
This name was given to discriminatory law in the south from 1876-1964
What is Jim Crow
What is jazz?
What is jazz poetry
This man was the first black man appointed to the Supreme Court
Who is Thurgood Marshall
In 2016, this NFL quarterback sparked a national conversation on racial injustice when he began kneeling during the national anthem.
Who is Colin Kaepernick?