New York, New York
These are three most famous landmarks in New York City.
What are the Statue of Liberty, Central Park and Broadway?
A landmark U.S. law signed by Lyndon B. Johnson that legally ended segregation in public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The Jewish New Year: September 11-12, 2026.
What is Rosh Hashanah?
GPS pioneer and mathematician. One of the hidden figures. Her work and contributions went larger unrecognized for years. Called the Mother of the GPS.
Who is Gladys West?
Briefly held the title of the "World Tallest Building" in 1930 before the Empire State Building took the title.
What is the Chrysler Building?
The original name for New York City.
What is New Amsterdam?
Three Civil Rights workers murdered in Neshoba, Mississippi.
Who are:
Andrew Goodman
James Chaney
Michael Schwerner
A holiday that celebrates the exodus of the Israelites from slavery to Egypt.
What is the Passover?
One of the wealthiest Black communities in the United States destroyed in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
What is Black Wall Street? (Greenwood)
A distinctive inverted ziggurat-like spiral museum building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright on the Manhattan's Upper East Side.
What is the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum?
This building is so massive and houses many businesses that it has its own Zip Code.
What is The Empire State Building?
The notorious segregationist and Public Safety Commissioner of Birmingham, Alabama.
Who is Bull Conor?
The first five books of the Hebrew holy book.
What is the Torah?
The speech that outlined methods to control the enslaved within the colonies.
What is the Willie Lynch Speech? (Also know as the Willie Lynch Letters)
The number of minutes in a year.
What is 525600 minutes?
Established in 1825, this area of land was located between West 82nd and West 89th Streets. It was Manhattan's first significant community of free Black property owners.
What is Seneca Village? (Know today as Central Park)
Who said that the Civil Rights Crisis was a "moral issue" as old as the scriptures and clear as the Constitution.
Who is President John F. Kennedy?
June 11, 1963
The date that created a permanent homeland for the State of Israel.
What May 14, 1948?
First Black woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
The number of Planets in our solar systems.
What is 8 planets?
Mercury Venus Earth
Mars Jupiter Saturn
Uranus Neptune
5 Jewish Museums in New York City Your Kids Will Love
What are:
1. The Jewish Museum 11 5th Ave @ 92nd St
2. Museum at Eldridge Street 12 Eldridge St
3. Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Place
4. Jewish Children’s Museum 792 Eastern Parkway
5. Tenement Museum 103 Orchard St
The only women to speak at the 1963 March on Washington.
Who were:
1. Daisy Bates - civil rights activist and president of the Arkansas NAACP ( gave a brief tribute)
2. Josephine Baker - famous entertainer (said "Hello")
3.Lena Horn - Actor/singer (spoke single word "Freedom")
Three ritual items traditionally used together during Havdalah ceremony that marks the end of Shabbat.
1. A braided candle with multiple wicks
2. A cup of wine
3. Sweet spice
The original singer of "You Ain't Nothing But a Hound Dog"
Who is Big Mama Thornton august 1952?
(Elvis Presley covered it in 1956)
The President with the youngest wife living in the White House.
Who is President Glover Cleveland? (age 49)
(Frances Folsom - Wife age 21 years old
the youngest First Lady of the U.S.)