Civil Rights & Activism
He was the leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Who is Martin Luther Ling Jr
The first African American female Supreme Court Justice?
What is Ketanji Brown Jackson
This athlete is nicknamed “The Greatest”?
Who is Muhammad Ali
The first black female billionaire
Who is Shelia Crump Johnson
This movement celebrated Black culture in the 1920s and 1930s?
What is the Harlem Renaissance
This event began after Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott
The first African American to win an Academy Award?
Hattie McDaniel
He was first Black quarterback to win a Super Bowl?
Who is Doug Williams
She became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Who is Toni Morrison
He was the youngest person to speak at the March on Washington
Who is John Lewis
She was the first African American woman elected to Congress?
Shirley Chisholm
This athlete won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Olympics?
Who is Jesse Owens
The first black Supreme Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall
What amendment officially ended slavery?
The 13th Amendment
This law outlawed literacy tests and poll taxes
What is the voting rights act of 1965
He was first African American four-star general?
Colin Powell
She was an influential poet, singer, memoirist and civil rights activist, celebrated for her series of seven autobiographies.
Maya Angelou
As a key figure in the civil rights movement, he played a pivotal role in the Selma to Montgomery marches and served as a US Representative.
Who is John Lewis
This person founded black history month?
Carter G Woodson
This leader emphasized black pride, self-reliance and spoke internationally about human rights?
Who is Malcolm X
She was the first black female billionaire
Shelia Crump Johnson
He founded the Negro Industrial and Economic Union to support Black owned businesses and promote economic development.
Who is Jim Brown
This black activist court case lead to the desegregation of American higher education.
Who is Heman Sweatt
What group of black soldiers served in the US Army after the Civil War?
The Buffalo soldiers