Civil Rights Movement
This woman led a boycott when refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This dessert innovator created ice cream in 1852.
Who is Augustus Jackson?
This civil rights leader’s 1965 speech How Long, Not Long reassured marchers in Selma, Alabama, that justice would prevail.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Known as the "Queen of Soul," her 1967 hit "Respect" became an anthem for civil rights.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
She became the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress in 1968.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This president sent troops in to Arkansas to help enforce integration of schools.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
This inventor discovered over 300 uses for the peanut.
Who is Dr. George Washington Carver?
This activist declared, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress,” in his 1857 speech on abolition and self-determination.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
He was the first African American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor.
Who is Sidney Poitier?
She was the first Black woman to travel to space in 1992 aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Who is Dr. Mae Jemison?
This was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
This African American innovator created potato chips in 1853.
Who is George Crum?
Someone once said, " Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
Who is Barack Obama?
The highest-grossing album by a Black artist of all time.
What is Thriller by Michael Jackson?
This 1975 Broadway musical featured an all-Black cast and won seven Tony Awards.
What is The Wiz?
MLK was the leader of this Civil Rights organization.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
This self made millionaire invented a cream to help hair grow back.
Who is Madam C. J. Walker?
Someone said, "A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."
Who is Malcolm X?
The first Black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize.
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
She was the first African American to win an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Who is Halle Berry?
In 1957, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called out his state's National Guard to block these students from entering high school.
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
This inventor in medicine regulated the pacemaker with more precision in 1959.
Who is Otis Boykin?
Someone said, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them.”
Who is Maya Angelou?
This contemporary artist is known for her narrative quilts exhibiting African-American life.
Who is Faith Ringgold?
In 1950, he became the first Black person to win a Nobel Prize (Peace Prize).
Who is Ralph Bunche?