That part of a city where the poor and minorities live.
What is the ghetto?
100
He died in the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
100
Mother of the Civil Rights movement.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
He broke the color line in baseball
Who is Jackie Robinson?
100
American music style made popular by African American musicians in the 1920’s and 1930’s.
What is Jazz?
200
City where Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks were involved in the first bus boycotts and protests against segregation in the South
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
200
Born a slave he created Tuskegee College in Alabama as the first college exclusively for African Americans.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
200
His "I have a Dream" Speech still rings in America’s ears.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
•"I have a Dream" Speech, August 1965
200
He hit 755 homeruns breaking Babe Ruth’s all time homerun record. He also played ball for both the Milwaukee Braves and Milwaukee Brewers
Who is “Hammerin” Hank Aaron?
200
America’s most famous jazz trumpeter. He is most remembered today for a song he didn’t want to record “Wonderful World”.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
300
Racist execution of a person without a trial.
What is a lynching?
300
Opposed to what Booker T Washington suggested this African American leader was the first to call for unique African American character and pride different from that of white America.
Who was W.E.B. DuBois?
300
Giving up his “master’s name”, Malcolm Little becomes.
Who was Malcolm X?
300
Known first as Cassius Clay, he is one of our countries most revered boxer.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
300
A rock and roll original this guitar player was no ding-a-ling.
Who is Chuck Berry?
400
The place where African American passengers were forced to sit on buses in the South of the 1950’s and 1960’s.
What is the back of the bus?
400
Famous Pre-Civil War African American abolitionist who spoke out against the evils of slavery.
Who is Fredrick Douglas?
400
First African American appointed and confirmed to be a member of the US. Supreme Court
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
400
At the Rome Olympics in 1960 she became the first US woman to win double gold in the 100 and 200 sprints. She also spent part of here childhood unable to walk because of a disease called rickets.
Who is Wilma Rudolf?
400
She is today one of the wealthiest producers, talk show hosts, and actresses in America.
Who is Oprah Winnfrey?
500
Most successful and common form of Civil Rights protest used by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960’s.
What is a protest march?
What is a nonviolent protest?
500
His Supreme Court case voided the Missouri Compromise and allowed masters to take their slaves anywhere in the USA.
Who is Dred Scott?
500
Site of bloody and destructive riots in both the 1960’s and following the Rodney King verdict.