Who said this?
Who am I?
Is this NOT-racist or ANTI-racist?
Name this Accomplice
Lesser Known Civil Rights And Community Activists
100
This activist coined the term, "intersectionality" to explain challenges Black women face as part of two disenfranchised demographics-race and gender.
Who is Kimberlee Crenshaw?
“When looking at any interventions, when you know there’s still a problem, it’s important to ask how this problem might affect some people differently than others. That’s what intersectionality asks us to do.”
100
As a 6 year old, I bravely helped integrate my school in New Orleans less than 65 years ago.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
100
Is this action Not Racist or Antiracist?
Actively seeks out history from multiple sources and perspectives not just the mainstream history.
What is an anti-racist?
100
What does SURJ stand for?
What is Standing Up for Racial Justice. A national organization of white people standing up for racial and economic justice.
100
Fought for voting rights for Black people after facing many personal obstacles to vote herself (had to take a literacy test, then had to pay a poll tax)? she also delivered a famous speech in which she stated "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired".
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
200
Stated in his essay, "A Talk to Teachers". “The paradox of education is precisely this—that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”
Who is James Baldwin?
200
Before Rosa Parks, this 15 year old civil rights leader refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded bus.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
200
True or False
Everyone consumes racist messages.
What is True. The messages are everywhere built into society and culture. Antiracists actively notice the messages and work to change them.
200
I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group.
So I wrote, "Unpacking the invisible backpack".
Who is Peggy McIntosh?
200
We helped integrate our high school in Little Rock Arkansas. We were harassed and threatened by many of the white students.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
300
This spiritual and political leader inspired and shaped MLK’s views on the importance of non-violence?
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
300
This children's author says that he hates reading boring books so he writes books that aren't boring.
Who is Jason Reynolds?
Author of Ghost, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You co-written with Ibram X Kendi, All American Boys, Long Way Down.
Plus many more...
300
Thinking racism is rooted in individual people not in power or policies. If I treat everyone fairly I am helping to end racism. Is this thinking not-racist or anti-racist?
What is not-racist behavior?
300
This person was a historian, playwright, and activist. His life’s work focused on a wide range of issues including race, class, war, history, and touched the lives of many people. He is most known for his book, A People's History of the United States.
Who is Howard Zinn?
300
On this holiday, young people can learn the values of nonviolence, unconditional love, forgiveness and reconciliation. This day provides a unique opportunity to teach people to fight evil, not people.
What is Martin Luther King Day?
400
"The beauty of anti-racism is that you don't have to pretend to be free of racism to be an anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism where-ever you find it, including in yourself. And it's the only way forward."
Who is writer Ijeoma Oluo?
400
This leader was an activist for civil rights, non-violence, and gay rights. He famously said, "Let us be enraged by injustice, but not destroyed by it".
Who is Bayard Rustin?
400
It's okay if I didn't know something is racist. It doesn't make me racist. Is this not-racist or anti-racist?
What is not racist. To be anti-racist, people must seek out knowledge or resources to help them understand how systems benefit some and not others.
400
This person was called the second most dangerous anarchists in America.
Who is Emma Goldman.
A born propagandist and organizer, she championed women's equality, free love, workers' rights, free universal education regardless of race or gender, and anarchism.
400
Was the "man who killed Jim Crow". This person's strategy to end school segregation was by arguing that there was no "separate but equal facility" at the University level in Missouri. Paving the way to end "separate but equal" structures in society.
Who is Charles Hamilton Houston?
500
This 1968 advocacy project was MLK's last project he worked on. This project called for a “revolution of values” in America. Sought to build a broad, fusion movement that could unite poor and impacted communities across the country.
What is the Poor People's Campaign.
500
Born in Trinidad and was a key leader in the Black Panther Party. He said, "One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change for someone else to bring about.
Who is Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)?
500
What are Individual/Personal, Institutional, Interpersonal and Structural.
What are 4 kinds of racism?
500
Two time Peabody award nominated podcast that asks the questions-Where does the notion of whiteness come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness for?
What is the podcast Scene on Radio Season 2-Seeing white produced by John Biewen?
500
This North Kingstown group's work is to move their town forward so the "community acknowledges its history, celebrates its potential, and fosters a climate honoring and encouraging diversity, equity and the unique character of all its residents through anti-racist policy reform, education and advocacy, and by working for justice and to combat all forms of discrimination."
What is T.A.N.K.?