Civil Rights Movement
This 1963 speech included the phrase “I Have a Dream.”
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
She became the first Black U.S. vice president.
Who is Kamala Harris?
She is known as the “Queen of Soul.”
Who is Aretha Franklin?
Her NASA calculations helped send astronauts into orbit.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in this year.
What is 1865?
These 1965 marches took place in Alabama to demand voting rights.
What is the Selma to Montgomery March?
She was the first Black woman elected to Congress.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This cultural movement flourished in 1920s Harlem.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
He developed hundreds of agricultural products using peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This 1954 Supreme Court decision ended school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This law outlawed segregation in public places and employment discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
He was the first Black Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
He wrote poems like “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.”
Who is Langston Hughes?
He patented an early version of the three-position traffic signal.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
This prosperous Tulsa district was destroyed in 1921.
What is Black Wall Street (Greenwood District)?
This activist helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Who is Ella Baker?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This 2018 Marvel film became a cultural milestone for Black representation.
What is Black Panther?
She was the first Black woman to travel to space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
This 1963 march was held at the Lincoln Memorial.
What is the March on Washington?
This Supreme Court case upheld “separate but equal” before being overturned.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This 1965 law protected voting rights by banning literacy tests.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
She became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Who is Toni Morrison?
This COVID-19 vaccine researcher helped lead development at the NIH.
Who is Kizzmekia Corbett?
This period followed the Civil War and attempted to rebuild the South.
What is Reconstruction?