Revolution & Resistance
Who led the Haitian Revolution and helped free Haiti from French control?
Toussaint Louverture
Who was the first Black president of South Africa?
Nelson Mandela
Who delivered the powerful 1964 speech “The Ballot or the Bullet,” encouraging Black political empowerment and self-defense?
Malcolm X
What African kingdom was known for its wealth under Mansa Musa?
Mali Empire
What was the name of the 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia led by an enslaved preacher?
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Who became the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress in 1968?
Shirley Chisholm
What Haitian revolutionary woman helped lead the fight against French colonial forces alongside Dessalines and Louverture?
Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière
Which U.S. city was home to the Greenwood District, also known as Black Wall Street?
Tulsa, OK
Which country was founded by formerly enslaved people from the U.S. in West Africa?
Liberia
Who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and promoted Black nationalism?
Marcus Garvey
Who was the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, known for resisting Belgian colonialism before his assassination in 1961?
Patrice Lumumba
Which African country was never colonized during the Scramble for Africa and famously defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa in 1896?
Ethiopia
What resistance movement in Kenya fought against British colonial rule?
Mau Mau Uprising
Which African American scholar co-founded the NAACP and was the first Black person to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University?
W.E.B. du Bois
Which Afro-Caribbean Marxist intellectual and revolutionary from Grenada led a 1979 revolution before being overthrown in 1983?
Maurice Bishop
What is the name of the fort in Ghana that was used in the transatlantic slave trade?
Elmina Castle
What was the name of the slave revolt aboard a ship in 1839 that led to a Supreme Court case?
Amistad Rebellion
Which formerly enslaved African wrote an influential autobiography that helped fuel the British abolition movement in the 18th century?
Olaudah Equiano
Who was the Ghanaian revolutionary and first president who pushed for African unity and independence?
Kwame Nkrumah
Which powerful East African trading city was part of the Swahili Coast in the 14th century?
Kilwa