ICONS
female Underground Railroad conductor
Who is Harriet Tubman?
NAACP acronym meaning
National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
Martin Luther King Jr's speech title
What is "I Have a Dream"?
float like a butterfly sting like a bee
Who is Muhammad Ali?
big mall in Scarborough
What is Scarborough Town Centre?
richest man on earth's name
Mansa Musa
The upliftment/discrimination of people based on the various shade of one’s skin
Colourism
4 days after Rosa Park's refused her seat this event happened
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
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?
The winter outer layer of many teenage boys
What is bubble jackets?
known as Uncle Tom
Who is Josiah Henson?
Theft of cultural elements for one’s own use, commodification, or profit often without understanding, acknowledgement, or respect for its value in the original culture.
Appropriation
racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama
What is the Alabama Church Bombing?
"I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman?
Afrocentric library based in Chester Le, promoting accessible reading materials for the Black community
What is the Blackstone Foundation Library?
The first black woman to run for president of the United States
Who is Shirley Chisolm?
Unearned social power accorded by the formal and informal institutions of society to ALL members of a dominant group
What is privilege?
Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots
Slapping palms as a form of greeting a friend and then holding their hand as you pull your fingers back until it makes a snapping sound.
What is "dap"?
led a group of formerly enslaved Africans called the Windward Maroons
Who is Nanny of the Maroons?
The voluntary or forcible movement of african peoples from their homelands into new regions, and recognize that their traditional homelands are reflected deeply in the languages they speak, religions they adopt, and the cultures they produce.
What is the African Diaspora?
year that the NAACP was founded
When was 1909?
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
A term to describe a neighbourhood an individual either frequents or lives in
What is "ends"?