People, Places and Things
The 20th and 21st century
The Abolition Movement
Black People in the Bible
Black People on Music
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This person gave the famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
Who is Dr Martin Luther King Jr.?
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The first black president of the United States of America.
Who is Barack Obama?
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This helped slaves that were trying to get to the free states or to Canada and was sometimes stationed at African American homes.
What is the underground railroad?
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A woman who was spoken against by her husbands brother and sister, Aaron and Miriam.
Who is Moses' Ethiopian wife? Numbers 12
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With the ability to meld boundaries between gospel, jazz, and rock, the “Queen of Soul” is an icon of contemporary pop music.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
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This woman refused to give up her seat on the public bus and made history.
Who is Rosa Parks?
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The movement in which blacks fought for equality and civil rights.
What is The Civil Rights Movement?
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This man issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves in the South on January 1, 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
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This man helped Jesus carry his cross on the way to Calvary and was the father of Rufus and Alexander.
Who is Simon of Cyrene? Mark 15:21 Acts 13:1
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American music developed especially from ragtime and blues and characterized by propulsive syncopated rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, varying degrees of improvisation, and often deliberate distortions of pitch and timbre.
What is Jazz?
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The illegal execution of an accused person by a mob, originally a system of punishment used by whites against African American slaves. However, whites who protested against this were also in danger of being...
What is lynching?
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The name given to the period from the end of World War I and through the middle of the 1930s Depression, during which a group of talented African-American writers produced a sizable body of literature in the four prominent genres of poetry, fiction, drama, and essay.
What is The Harlem Renaissance?
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This amendment freed all slaves in the U.S. on December 18, 1965.
What is the 13th Amendment?
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This man came to Jerusalem to worship and on his way back got a message from Paul and was baptized shortly thereafter.
Who is the Ethiopian Eunuch? Acts 8:26-39
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Nicknamed the ‘Founding Father of Jazz’, this man was responsible for introducing a uniquely American art form.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
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A racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy.
What is The Klu Klux Klan?
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A famous black poet who endured many hardships and wrote the poem, "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie" (1971).
Who is Maya Angelou?
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A abolitionist and woman's rights activist, with the former name Isabella Baumfree, who changed her name in 1843. She met and worked with abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and David Ruggles and gave the famous speech, "Ain't I a Woman?"
Who is Sojourner Truth?
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Song of Solomon was written to this woman as a love poem.
Who is Solomon's bride? Song of Solomon 1:5
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As the son of a revivalist preacher, its only natural he was called the “Father of Gospel Music.”
Who is Thomas A. Dorsey?
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A tragic chapter in the civil rights movement where riots erupted. It was here that Martin Luther King was arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests, where some of the most powerful and influential photographs documenting the civil rights movement were taken and where it's first black mayor, Richard Arrington, elected in 1979, helped create a historic district devoted to the civil rights movement.
What is Birmingham, Alabama?
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This man was a well established preacher and a gifted orator. Many call him the father of the Civil Rights Movement, although, many did not agree with his methods. He preceded Martin Luther King Jr. at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
Who is Vernon Johns?
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The 1840 convention of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society which was established to promote worldwide abolition, held in London, England.
What is the World Anti-Slavery Convention?
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This man's line of descendants are called Cushites, the father of the Ethiopians, and his name means "black" or "dark."
Who is Ham? Genesis 10:6-20
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A style of music that evolved from southern African-American secular songs and is usually distinguished by a strong 4/4 rhythm, flatted thirds and sevenths, a 12-bar structure, and lyrics in a three-line stanza in which the second line repeats the first.
What is Blues?
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