Civil Rights Leaders
This leader is most famous for his "I Have a Dream" speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
He was the first black golf chamption to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.
Who is Tiger Woods?
She said, "I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger".
Who was Harriet Tubman?
He was the first black American to be elected president of the USA in 2008.
Who is Barack Obama?
This organization founded in 1909 was created to "advance the interest of colored citizens" in the United States.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
This woman is generally considered to have started the bus boycott movement in Montgomery, AL.
Who is Rosa Parks?
He was the first black man to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?
He said, "The time is always right to do what is right".
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
What is Brown v Board of Education?
This state has the most Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in America.
What is Alabama?
This leader changed his last name in protest of slaves being given their owners names when coming to America.
Malcolm X
He was the first black American to have his likeness portrayed on a US postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington?
She said, "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?
This Supreme Court Case stated that segregation was legal and constitutinoal as long as "facilites were equal".
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
This political organziation was founded in California in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in order to monitor the behavior of police officers.
What is the Black Panther Party?
This man was born in Jamaica and started the Pan-African movement from Harlem, NYC.
Who was Marcus Garvey?
Who was the first black author to win the Nobel Prize for literature? (Hint: Her book list includes 'Sula', 'Beloved' and 'The Bluest Eye')
Who is Toni Morrison?
This famous athlete said, "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 (Cassius Clay)?
This Supreme Court Case decreed a slave was his master's property and blacks were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v Sandford?
This organization based out of NYC empowers and encourages black Americans to be active in political and professional arenas.
What is the National Urban League?
This man was the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi who was assassinated by a white supremacist.
Who was Medgar Evers?
In what year were the first Africans brought to America to work as slaves?
What is 1619?
This famous actor said, "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history".
Who is Morgan Freeman?
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
What is the Black Student Union?