Famous Black Men
A prominent civil rights leader and was also a minister.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King
The civil rights activist who suffered from severe headaches and a sleep disorder due to her overseer hitting her in the head with a weight
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Invented the first line of hair products for African Americans
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
The infamous speech given on August 28, 1963 during the March of Washington.
What is "I Have A Dream?"
What Amendment abolished slavery in 1865?
What is the 13th Amendment?
The NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi
Who is Medgar Evers
The first black girl to desegregate an elementary school in Lousiana
Who is Ruby Bridges?
First black WOMAN to serve on the Supreme Court
Ketanji Brown Jackson
March that was organized in Alabama to protest for federal voting rights for African Americans
What is the Selma march?
Law that called for desegregation of schools
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
He led a four-day rebellion in Virginia.
Who is Nat Turner
The 15 year old girl who refused to give up her bus seat
Who is Claudette Colvin?
First black PERSON in the Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall
The revolutionary organization with an ideology of black nationalism, socialism, and armed defenses.
What is the Black Panther Party?
Law that legalized interracial marriage within the United States in 1967.
What is Loving v. Virginia?
The man who was enslaved but shipped himself in a box to a free state
Who is Henry Brown
She helped organize the Freedom Summer and led 17 African Americans to register to vote in Mississippi
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
First black woman to sing on TV
Ethel Waters
What is the oldest HBCU in the south?
What is Shaw Univerisity?
Act signed by President Lyndon Johnson that outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted, like literacy tests, as a prerequisite to voting.
What is the Voting Act of 1965?
A black man from New York that was kidnapped as a FREE man then sold into slavery
Who is Solomon Northup
African-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s that also fought for women's suffrage
Who is Ida B Wells?
The first black woman to go into space
Who is Guion Bluford?
Non-violent sit-ins that started when four friends sat at a "whites-only" counter for lunch and refused to give up their seats?
What are the Greensboro Sit-ins?
A bill that Democrats are currently fighting to pass that cracks down on controversial police tactics like no-knock warrants and will make it easier to prosecute accused officers of unnecessary violence.
(This bill is in light of an unjust murder of an African American man in 2020)