Civil Rights Movement
Person whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956
Rosa Parks
This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
African American who was elected president of the United States in 2008
Who is Barack Obama?
"I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger"
Who is Harriet Tubman?
First African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit
Who is Tiger Woods?
The organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Person ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars
Who is Beyoncé Knowles?
Supreme Court decision that decreed public schools should be integrated
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
"The time is always right to do what is right"
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Author of the first nonfiction best-seller by an African-American woman
Who is Maya Angelou?
The Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity
Who is Malcolm X?
The first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
Supreme Court case that decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens
What is Dred Scott vs. Stanford?
"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."
Who is Maya Angelou?
First African-American woman, and first woman, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Who is Aretha Franklin?
The main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Fourteen year old black boy who was lynched for whistling at a white woman
Who is Emmet Till?
Supreme Court case that stated segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"
"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."
Who is Muhammad Ali?
First African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era
Who is Jackie Robinson?
Person who created the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990
Who is George Washington Carver?
Co-founder of the Dallas County Voters League in 1933, and holding African-American voter registration drives in Selma from the 1930s through the '50s. She was brutally beaten for helping to lead a 1965 civil rights march, which became known as Bloody Sunday and drew national attention to the Civil Rights Movement
Who is Amelia Boynton?
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
Who is Booker T. Washington?
First African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice