Major Events
This labor organization was established in 1869 to improve conditions for Black workers
Colored National Labor Union
Rosina Corrothers Tucker's organizing efforts contributed to the passage of this landmark civil rights legislation in 1964
Civil Rights Act
Which statesman, diplomat, and army officer was the 65th and first African-American Secretary of State (2001 - 2005)?
Colin Powell
What was the first year the federal government officially counted Black people in the U.S. Census?
1870
Featuring an all-Black cast, songs like "Ease On Down The Road" & the costumes seen here, this 1975 Broadway musical had a rough beginning before becoming a smash hit & winning seven Tonys. It had a 2024 Broadway run and was nominated for a Grammy
The Wiz
This president issued Executive Order 8802 in the 1940s
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ben Careathers was a lifelong member of this political party
Communist Party
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site, where he institutionalized the study of African and African American History, is in which US city?
Washington DC
Part of the Harlem Renaissance, his first poetry collection, "The Weary Blues", was published in 1926
Langston Hughes
The strike lasted this many days before reaching a resolution
64 days
This labor activist refused to sing the national anthem at age 10 due to racial segregation in a park
Sylvia Woods
The subject of a TV movie and a Rockwell painting, in 1960 she made history by integrating an all-white school in New Orleans
Ruby Bridges
Ralph Abernathy took over as president of this organization and led the Poor People's March to Washington
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
"Talking at the Gates" is "A Life of" this "If Beale Street Could Talk" and "The Fire Next Time" novelist
James Baldwin
This 1887 event in Louisiana resulted in the deaths of at least 35 Black sugar workers
Thibodaux Massacre
Hattie Canty was arrested this many times for various labor actions during her tenure as union president
6 times
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Shirley Chisholm
Robert Robinson Taylor lead the industrial program and campus expansion of this Alabama-located African American vocational school that is now a designated National Historic Site
Tuskegee University
The title characters of this 2020 film set in the 1960s are an FBI informant & Black Panther leader Fred Hampton
Judah and the Black Messiah
The committee's work laid the groundwork for this commission established by the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
The union Dora Lee Jones founded was located in this New York City neighborhood
Yorkville
What feat is the 6888, as known as the Triple 8, the majority black, all-women army unit posted to Europe and the UK during World War II known for?
They corrected a 3 year backlog of mail in 3 months, motto being "No Mail, Low Morale"
This labor organization, founded by A. Philip Randolph in 1925, was the first Black union chartered by the AFL
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) and Maids
This film by Ava Duvernay is a biographical drama about author Isabel Wilkerson's writing of the novel Caste: the Origin of our Discontent, in which Wilkerson travels throughout Germany, India, and the United States to research the caste systems in each country's history
Origin