Ohio History
This student organization at Kent State University created what is now known as Black History Month.
The "Grandmother of Juneteeth" is a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
Who is Opal Lee?
This court decision decided that segregated schools were unconstituional in 1954.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." Said by a pivotal leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
This melanated feline is a symbol of resistance and an icon of the greatest Black American organization.
What is the Black Panther
He was the first African American elected to Congress for the state.
Who is Louis Stokes?
This abolitionist was an activist for African American civil rights. She gave her speech, "Ain't I a woman?" at the Women's Rights Convention in 1851.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This attack occurred on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, by Alabama State Troopers.
What is Bloody Sunday?
"I got my start by giving myself a start." Said by the first female millionaire.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
What is the Pan-African Flag
The nation's first private historically black university was established in 1856.
What is Wilberforce University?
This attorney was among the first African American women to pass the Kentucky Bar and represented the all-time great Muhammad Ali. She was also a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
Who is Alberta O. Jones?
This period of creating African American art, literature, music, and culture calls its birthplace a borough in New York home.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” Said by an American revolutionary and former member of the NOI.
Who is Malcolm X?
This symbol represents the solidarity, resistance, and struggle of Black Americans.
What is the Raised Fist?
This Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of "The Bluest Eye" was born in Lorain, Ohio.
Who is Toni Morrison?
He was the incorporator of the Black Star Line and the Founder and President-General of the United Negro Improvement Association.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This two-day-long massacre took place in the Greenwood district, which destroyed what is known as "Black Wall Street".
What is the Tulsa Race Massacre?
"I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle." Said by a prominent member of the Black Panther Party.
Who is Fred Hampton?
This flag, designed by Melvin Charles and Gleason T. Jackson in 1967, is a symbol representing the history, pride, and contributions of Black Americans.
What is the Black American Heritage Flag?
These two sisters are recognized as "Pearls" for founding Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
Myrtle Tyler Faithful and Viola Tyler Goings
This enslaved carpenter and preacher was charged of leading a four day rebellion of both freed and enslaved Black people in Virginia, in 1831.
Who is Nat Turner?
This revolution transformed a French slave colony into the world’s first Black-led republic after a successful slave uprising.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
"Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind." Said by the author of If Beale Street Could Talk.
Who is James Baldwin?
The seventh principle of Kwanzaa that combines the Kemetic Ankh and the Djed Pillar, meaning faith.