Civil Rights Era
Refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The inventor of the super soaker.
Who is Lonnie G. Johnson?
Known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity
Who is Malcolm X?
The name of the element found in Wakanda.
Vibranium
The first African American Supreme Court Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
Created the blood bank
Who is Charles Drew?
Wrote the famous book "Are Prisons Obsolete?"
Who is Dr. Angela Yvonne Davis?
The founders of the Black Panther Party.
Who is Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale?
The first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State
Who Colin Powell?
Name of the group of students who were met by the National Guard when they tried to integrate a school.
Who is the Little Rock Nine? (Bonus Points: Ernest Green (b. 1941), Elizabeth Eckford (b. 1941), Jefferson Thomas (1942–2010), Terrence Roberts (b. 1941), Carlotta Walls LaNier (b. 1942), Minnijean Brown (b. 1941), Gloria Ray Karlmark (b. 1942), Thelma Mothershed (b. 1940), and Melba Pattillo Beals (b. 1941).)
Inventor of the gas mask and the traffic signal.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
Was convicted of the alleged first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973.
Who is Assata Shakur?
Killmonger’s Wakandian name
What is N’Jadaka?
The first African American woman millionaire
Who is Madame CJ. Walker?
The name of the racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama.
What is the Alabama Church Bombing?
Inventor of the touch-tone telephone, caller ID, AND fiber-optic cable.
Who is Dr. Shirley Jackson?
A founding member of Dream Defenders, a community organizing collective that fights for social justice and boldly challenges the status quo.
Who is Ciara Taylor?
Famous Black Panther who was shot and killed while in his bed unprovoked.
Who is Fred Hampton?
The year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves
What is 1619?
The name of the restaurant where our college students took a stand against segregation in Greensboro, North Carolina.
What is Woolworth’s?
She invented the closed-circuit television security.
Who is Marie Ban Brittan Brown?
Was an American gay liberation activist and advocate for gay rights. Was one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising of 1969.
Who is Marsha P. Johnson?
The name of the famous former Black Panther and current activist, who was falsely accused or murder, conspiracy and kidnapping in 1970.
Who is Dr. Angela Yvonne Davis?
The first African American to win a Nobel Peace Prize?
Who is Ralph Joseph Bunche?