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The year Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech.
What is 1963?
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Known as the slave voyage to the Americas in the 16th through 19th century.
What is the Slave Trade?
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The first African-American Major League Baseball player.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
100
One of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and called for civil and economic rights for African Americans that took place in Washington, D.C.
What is "The Great March on Washington?"
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Blind singer-songwriter and pianist who fused R&B with gospel and the blues in the 1950's.
Who is Ray Charles?
200
Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
What is January 15, 1929?
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Former American President who signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
The first African-American actor and comedian to have his own Network Television show.
Who is Bill Cosby?
200
A Civil Rights Movement March on Sunday March 7, 1965, where state troopers and a sheriff’s posse in Selma, Alabama attacked 525 civil rights demonstrators taking part in a march between Selma and Montgomery. The march was organized to promote black voter registration and to protest the killing of a young black man, Jimmie Lee Jackson.
What is Bloody Sunday?
200
Blind American singer-songwriter, composer, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist who helped establish Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as a holiday.
Who is Stevie Wonder?
300
The year Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
What is 1968?
300
An African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history.
Who is Malcolm X?
300
Author of "The Color Purple"
Who is Alice Walker?
300
On March 9, Dr. King led about 2,500 marchers out to the Edmund Pettus Bridge and had all marchers turn their backs, thereby obeying the court order preventing them from marching all the way to Montgomery. The nonviolent "back turning" gave this march its' name.
What is Turnaround Tuesday?
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The American city which is considered the birthplace of gospel music.
What is Chicago, Illinois?
400
An all black male college located in Atlanta, Georgia for which Martin Luther King Jr. was admitted at the age of 15
What is Morehouse College?
400
A network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century slaves of African descent in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies.
What is The Underground Railroad?
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She was awarded the first black Miss America, in 1984.
Who is Vanessa Williams?
400
A Civil Rights Movement march that started March 16th and ended on March 25th in Montgomery at the Alabama State Capitol. The marchers averaged 10 miles a day along U.S. Route 80, where the marchers were protected by 2,000 soldiers of the U.S. Army, 1,900 members of the Alabama National Guard, and many FBI agents.
What is The March to Montgomery?
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An American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry.
Who is Langston Hughes?
500
An open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King, Jr. which defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism, arguing that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws.
What is the "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
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The landmark decision where the Supreme Court declared that the segregation of public schools was in violation of the 14th Amendment.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
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The first African-American astronaut.
Who is Robert Lawrence Jr.?
500
October 1958, a march was assembled to protest the lack of progress since the ruling of the national case of Brown vs. Board of Education.
What is the Youth March for Integrated Schools?
500
The jazz trumpet player and bandleader also known as "Pops" or "Satchmo"
Who is Louis Armstrong?
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