“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”
Langston Hughes
Female rap group won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance in 1995 for the single "None of Your Business", making them one the first female rap Grammy winners?
Salt -N-Pepa
First African American actress to win an Oscar in Best Actress category for her performance in “Monster Ball”
Civil right activist who was the NAACP field secretary in Mississippi and was denied admission to the University of Mississippi Law School in 1954, but was instrumental in the eventual desegregation of "Ole Miss" in 1962.
Medgar Evers
This court case that established the “separate but equal” segregation policy.
Plessy v. Ferguson
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
Oprah Winfrey
Solo superhero film became the 9th highest grossing film of all time in 2018
Black Panther
First African American to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of fame
Robert L. Douglas
In this ruling, the Supreme Court held that Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed racial discrimination by places of public accommodation if their operations affected commerce
Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States
U.S activist prominently involved with integrating lunch counters through sit-ins, the Freedom Riders, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Selma Right-to-vote movement and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Diane Nash
“If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run walk, If you can’t walk crawl, by all means keep moving.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This director was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary for his film, 4 Little Girls, about the children killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963
Spike Lee
First female rapper to win a Grammy in 1995 for her song, U.N.I.T.Y
Queen Latifah
Civil rights activist registered as the first African-American student at University of Mississippi
Became the first black athlete to cross the color line of international tennis?
Althea Gibson
“I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.”
Maya Angelou
This actress was first nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1954 film Carmen Jones
Dorothy Dandridge
The first black actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field
Sidney Poitier
The Supreme Court held that it was unconstitutional to have white-only pre-primary elections
Terry v. Adams
The first African American recipient of the Navy Cross for valour
Doris “Dorrie” Miller
“Have vision, be demanding”
Colin Powell
Which musician born in New Orleans is considered one of the most influential figures in jazz
Louis Armstrong
The first African American woman to gain a PhD in Mathematics
Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes
The voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and a leader in the civil rights movement who co-founded Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)?
Fannie Lou Hamer
Won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, for Annie Allen, making her the first African American to receive the Pulitzer
Gwendolyn Brooks