I am the amendment to the U.S. Constitution that gave all born or naturalized people citizenship
What is the 14th Amendment
100
This is the charasmatic man that led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, pushing for peaceful resistance.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
100
This was the African American woman who spurred the Montgomery Bus Boycott with peaceful resistance.
Who is Rosa Parks
100
This is the group that, after the American Civil War, formed to terrorized the newly freed African Americans
What is Ku Klux Klan
100
This is the percent of the U.S. that self-identifies as African American
What is 19%
200
I am the Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that gave African Americans the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment
200
This man led an offshoot of the Civil Rights Movement that focused on establishing a separate community for African Americans and using violence as a form of self defense.
Who is Malcolm X
200
This famous African American author is the mother of great works such as "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
Who is Maya Angelou
200
This is the collective name for the group of states that seceded from the U.S over the issue of slavery
What is the Confederate States of America
200
This is the percent of African Americans that are living below the national poverty line as of 2013
What is 27.2%
300
This is the famous speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. in August of 1963
What is the "I Have a Dream" speech
300
This man was the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court
Who is Thurgood Marshall
300
This African American author was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
Who is Toni Morrison
300
This was the militant group that was formed for the purpose of the self-defense of African Americans in 1966
What is the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
300
This is the percentage of African Americans who served in the Vietnam war.
What is 12.6% (This is significant because they only made up 11% of the American population)
400
This was the event in August of 1963 at which Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous speech.
What is the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
400
This was the 14 yr old boy who was kidnapped and murdered for "whistling at a white woman"
Who is Emmett Till
400
This was the first African American woman to earn an aviation license, to fly a plane, and to earn an international aviation license
Who is Bessie Coleman
400
This was a tactic, based on education, used by Southern States to prevent African Americans from utilizing their right to vote
What is literacy testing
400
This is the average wage-gap ratio of African American women to Caucasian Males
What is $.60 to $1
500
This was the date of Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous equal rights speech in Washington D.C.
What is August 28, 1963
500
This was the first African American man to play major league baseball in the modern era
Who is Jackie Robinson
500
This African American woman was known as the "First Lady of the Struggle"
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune
500
This was a group of protesters that rode buses throughout the South in 1961 to protest segregation
Who are the Freedom Riders
500
This is the year that the government created a federally recognized Black History Month