Vocabulary
segregation
What is the action of setting someone or something apart from other people or things?
Emancipation Proclamation
What is 1863?
His real name was Cassius Clay
Who is Muhammad Ali?
To formally end or eliminate something
What is to abolish?
Fitty
What is $50?
lynching
What is informal killings of someone by a group, before they had a chance to defend themselves
First Black President
What is 2008?
First Black Supreme Court Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Bent down on one knee in order to publicly protest about something
What is to take a knee?
Axe
What is "ask"?
tokenism
What is "To make no more than a small effort or gesture"?
Black History Month became official
What is 1976?
American poet and activist who read a poem during the Biden presidential inauguration
Who is Amanda Gorman?
Not offensive, not harmful
What is innocuous?
Sku me
What is "excuse me"?
emancipation
What is to formally set free?
Civil Rights Act
What is 1964?
He gave the "I Have a Dream" speech
Who is Dr Martin Luther King Jr?
1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision saying that racial segregation in schools was not legal
What is Brown v Board of Education?
Homey
bigotry
What is stubborn and complete intolerance of any opinion that is different from one's own?
BLM founded as an organization
What is 2013?
First Black vice-president
June 19, a U.S. holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the United States
What is Juneteenth?
Crib
What is "home"?