Iconic Black Women
The first Black women to headline Coachella in 2018.
Who is Beyoncé
An American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement and publicly criticized the mainstream Civil Rights Movement for its emphasis on nonviolence
She was an LGBTQ+ Activist that helped start the Stonewall riots and created STAR, a group focusing on helping transgender youth experiencing homelessness.
Who is Marsha P Johnson
Activists rode interstate buses across state lines to challenge local segregation laws.
What is the Freedom Riders
This QB was attacked for taking a knee as a way to peacefully protest during the national anthem.
Who is Colin Kaepernick
Currently has won 23 major titles and known to be the best athlete in the world.
Who is Serena Williams
An activist and major figure in the prison abolition movement and a powerful leader in the anti-militarism and antiwar movement. She also ran as VP under the Communist Party USA in the 80s.
Who is Angela Davis
A powerful dance movement that originated in 70s and 80s New York among the predominantly Black, gay community in Harlem.
The first African American Supreme Court Justice who helped win Brown v. Board of Education that ruled segregation in schools unconstitutional.
Who is Justice Thurgood Marshall
A movement surrounding the reallocation of funding from police departments to reinvest into communities.
What is Defund the Police
The first Black women to attend Louisiana Tech University.
Who is Bertha Bradford-Robinson
This association was created in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans and ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.
What is the NAACP
He was an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. He is most known for his work on the March on Washington Movement.
Who is Bayard Rustin
A political and a social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system in Alabama.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott
International protests and unrest from ongoing police brutality.
What is the George Floyd Protests
A brilliant mathematician and NASA employee whose calculations were critical to the success of the first U.S. spaceflight.
Who is Katherine Johnson
A Black Power political organization whose core practice was its open carry armed citizens' patrols to monitor the behavior of officers of the Oakland Police Department and challenge police brutality in the city and create community social programs such as free meals and health programs.
What is the Black Panther Party
Two of the three founders of this movement are queer Black women.
What is the Black Lives Matter Movement
This was the name of a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many Black voters as possible in Mississippi.
What is the Freedom Summer
Biden noticeably excluded this group from a meeting with other national civil rights groups and has been accused of ignoring the request for a meeting.
What is the Black Lives Matter Organization
Black Panther activist who advocates to this day for revolutionary changes.
Who is Assata Shakur
Created in 1780, in the USA, this was the first attested Black Mutual Aid Society. This society was formed to assist the poor and sick and combat racism.
What is the African Union Society
The name of one of the two men who were the first openly gay Black men to be elected to Congress in 2020.
Who is Congressman Ritchie Torres (NY-15) or Congressman Mondaire Jones (NY-17)
This group was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Name at least two of the grassroots organizers who helped register communities of color and immigrants to vote in Georgia, which ultimately flipped the state.
Stacy Abrahams, LaTosha Brown, Nse Ufot, Tania Unzueta Carrasco, Yterenickia "YT" Bell, Helen Butler, Deborah Scott, Tamieka Atkins