Civil Rights Movement
This Civil Rights leader stated violence is pointless and to achieve equality, blacks should not use violence. He stated that if a law was unjust, blacks should be morally obligated not to follow it but accept the consequences. He hoped for brotherhood for all men and the ending of segregation.
Who is Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ?
This University became the first HBCU to establish a physical therapy program.
-What is Howard University?
This famous woman refused to give up her bus seat to a white man and began the Montgomery bus boycott.
-Who is Rosa Parks?
This famous educator who was born into slavery said, “Character is Power.”
-Who is Booker T. Washington?
Best known as the first “African American man in Space,’’ this former Air Force pilot made history as a mission specialist for the Challenger launch in 1983.
-Who is Guion Bluford?
Before Rosa Parks, she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
-Who is Claudette Colvin?
This many historically black colleges offer DPT programs.
What is eight?
(Alabama State University, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Hampton University, Langston University, Tennessee State University, Winston-Salem University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore. )
This amazing man is the self-proclaimed “great boxer of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th-century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
-Who is Muhammad Ali?
This influential leader said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
-Who is Nelson Mandela ?
This person became first African American female to become a billionaire in 2004?
-Who is Oprah Winfrey ?
In 1966, he co-founded the Black Panther for Self-Defense with Huey Newton.
-Who is Bobby Seal?
This PT Pioneer was the first black member on the Board of Directors for the APTA.
-Who is Leon Anderson Jr, PT?
This person served as a nurse, scout, and spy for the Union Army.
-Who is Harriet Tubman ?
This famous basketball player said, “I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
-Who is Michael Jordan?
This woman was the first black American bank President.
-Who is Maggie Lena Walker?
She was the first black child to integrate an all-white public elementary school in New Orleans.
-Who is Ruby Bridges?
This trailblazer went on to become the first African American to join the physical therapy department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was a founding director of the department of physical therapy at North Georgia State College and established the first DPT program at Alabama State University.
-Who is Lynda D. Woodruff, PT, PhD?
This Civil Rights leader thought that segregation should end now! Blacks should not have to wait for or try to earn their equality from white. Blacks should also have the option to have whatever type of education they wanted whether it be practical or academic.
-Who is W.E.B Du Bois?
This famous athlete had the quote, “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”
-Who is Muhammad Ali?
Daniel Hale Williams was the first African American to perform this procedure.
-What is Open Heart Surgery?
His death in Minnesota created global-wide protests and brought to light the police brutality against black people.
-Who is George Floyd?
This PT Pioneer originally was a nurse; although she aspired to be a PT, black students were not allowed to enroll in physical therapy programs at the time. In the mid-1940s she was finally able to enroll at Northwestern University and get her PT certificate, becoming the fifth African American PT.
-Who is Thelma Brown Pendleton, PT?
This United States president signed the Civil Rights act of 1964?
-Who is Lyndon Johnson?
This famous activist said, “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”
– Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This inventor developed the microphone in the 1960s and holds more than 200 foreign patents on microphones.
-Who is Dr. James West?