Potpourri
Before Puff, she belonged to Grandma.
Tipi
She's expected a girl in January.
Nytia Brooks Beasly
America's second independence day
Juneteenth June 19, 1865
One of America’s worst acts of racial violence took place in the Greenwood District of this city.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
This singer and civil rights activist once said, "I didn’t like ‘protest music’ because a lot of it was so simple and unimaginative it stripped the dignity away from the people it was trying to celebrate." But that argument changed after the Alabama church bombing and the murder of Medgar Evers.
Nina Simone
This R&B/soul singer/songwriter first rose to fame as lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in the 1970's before he started his successful solo career.
Teddy Pendergrass
The 1st Brooks reunion was held in this city.
Oak Grove Virginia
Gen. Gordon Granger arrived with Union soldiers in this city to announced to enslaved Africans Americans that the Civil War had ended and they were free.
Galveston, Texas
The Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma was also known as this place.
Black Wall Street
This poet helped to define the African-American voice of the 1960s, '70s and beyond. She was also a major force in the Black Arts movement and graduated from with honors from Fisk University in 1967.
Nikki Giovanni
What professional baseball player finished his career with 755 home runs, the highest total in major league history?
Hank Aaron
Elmo Sr.'s half sister
Novella
It took at least this long for enslaved African Americans to be informed of their freedom.
2 years
He authored three autobiographies, was a highly influential abolitionist leader and orator, met with Abraham Lincoln, became the president of a bank, and served as a U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic and a minister resident to Haiti.
Frederick Douglass
He was an essayist, playwright, novelist and voice of the American civil rights movement known for works adapted into hit movies on HBO, the silver screen, and wrote characters that inspired Oscar winning performances.
James Baldwin
The born name of the first black woman millionaire in America who made her fortune thanks to her homemade line of hair care products for black women.
Sarah Breedlove
He ran fake $20 bills up and down the east coast.
Uncle Puke (Clifton)
Many slavers and plantation owners waited to inform their slaves, or allow Union Troops to inform their slaves because of this.
Harvest Season
She won and became the first black woman elected to Congress and became the first black person to seek a presidential nomination from a major party.
Shirley Chisholm
In 1990, the same year as his release from prison, more than 50,000 people cheered at Bobby Dodd Stadium during the speech of this Nobel Peace Prize Winner. He later laid a wreath at the Martin Luther King Jr., Center.
Nelson Mandela
During the 1970s, this Private Dancer artist was introduced to Buddhism. In 1991 she was elected into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and gained her Swiss citizenship in 2013.
Tina Turna
Double Jeopardy $1000
He promised to send his grandmother's Flash Dance vinyl album to his cousin in May 2020 and hasn't done it yet!
Alonzo Loper Jr. of Chester, Pa
Many Americans have signed petitions in hope to make Juneteenth one of these.
National Holiday
In 1964, he founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity, which identified racism, and not the white race, as the enemy of justice. His more moderate philosophy became influential, especially among members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
Malcolm X
Born a slave known for her 'plane speak' she was an African American evangelist, abolitionist, women’s rights activist, and author who was the first black woman to sue a white man in a United States court and prevail.
Sojourner Truth