Historical Figures
This individual refused to give up their seat in 1955
Who is Rosa Parks
This artist's 2016 visual album Lemonade is widely analyzed for its exploration of Black feminism, Southern heritage, and generational trauma.
Who is Beyonce
After Rosa Parks' arrest, this was the city in which the bus boycott began.
What is Montgomery, Alabama
This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment
Born in NYC, this 1920's cultural movement centered in Harlem as it reshaped literature, music and art.
What is the Harlem Renaissance.
A group of all-Black fighter pilots who served in World War II, and were the first recognized with distinction.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen
This brilliant individual was the sole NASA mathematician who calculated the flight trajectories for John Glenn's orbital mission.
Who is Katherine Johnson
This 1960 student-led movement began at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and helped spread nonviolent direct-action protests across the South.
This 1954 Supreme Court decision overturned Plessy v. Ferguson in the context of public education, declaring segregation inherently unequal.
Brown v. Board of Education
This holiday, celebrated on June 19th, marks the day slavery officially ended in Texas and is now celebrated across the United States.
What is Juneteenth
This NAACP attorney argued Brown v. Board of Education before they became the first Black Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall
Becoming the first Black female billionaire marked this individual as a media mogul in 2003.
Who is Oprah Winfrey
This Alabama city was where the voting rights marches began and ended in Montgomery.
What is Selma, Alabama
In 1965, this federal law now outlawed literacy tests and allowed federal oversight of elections in discriminatory states.
This musical style, developed in the South and influenced by work songs and spirituals, became a major part of American culture and includes artists like Ray Charles and B.B. King.
What is the Blues
An agricultural scientist who developed crop rotation methods that would help revitalize the soil in Southern states.
Who is George Washington Carver
1988 marked this group's album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, which became a political landmark in music.
Who is Public Enemy
This 1961 interracial campaign challenged segregated interstate bus travel in the South by testing the Supreme Court’s ruling in Boynton v. Virginia, often facing violent resistance.
What are the Freedom Rides
This 1870 amendment gave Black men the legal right to vote by prohibiting voter discrimination based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment
During the early 20th century, millions of African Americans moved from the rural South to Northern cities in search of better jobs and living conditions. This migration is known as the…
What is the Great Migration
Before becoming the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, this justice served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and had previously worked as a federal public defender—making her the first former public defender to serve on the Supreme Court.
Who is Kentanji Brown Jackson
I was the individual who published The North Star Newspaper.
Who is Frederick Douglass
Convict leasing, widely practiced after Reconstruction, functioned as a continuation of forced labor despite the passage of this constitutional amendment.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment
This 1967 Supreme Court case made it legal for people of different races to marry anywhere in the United States.
Loving v. Virgina
This 1980s-1990s cultural movement saw African American youth express creativity through graffiti, rap, breakdancing, and DJing, becoming a global cultural phenomenon.
What is Hip-Hop