NAACP
When was NAACP founded?
When is February 12, 1909
By going out to minority communities and registering voters, this influential figure is credited for aiding President Biden in winning the 2020 presidential election.
Who is Stacey Abrams
What was the name of the organization that Martin Luther King Jr. founded?
What is Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Who was the first African American to own a major film studio?
Who is Tyler Perry
Who was the first African American Board of Trustees member at Auburn?
Who is Bessie Mae Holloway
What was the name of the quarterly magazine that the NAACP released?
What is The Crisis
After school leaders told students that had to leave out major historical moments for their Black History Month Program, high school senior, J'Niyah Suttles was credited for leading a walkout in what city?
Where is Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Who started Black History Month?
Who is Carter G. Woodson
Who is the first and only African American to win an Oscar for best actress?
Who is Halle Berry
What year was Auburn University integrated?
When is 1964
She was one of the founders of the NAACP
Who is Ida B. Wells
She was part of an uprising after members of the LGBTQ community were harassed at the Stonewall Inn
Who is Marsha P Johnson
Who was the first woman to be a Supreme Court Justice?
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson
Who was the first African American Olympian to win the all-around title in gymnastics?
Who is Gabby Douglas
Who was Auburn's first African American SGA President?
Who is Harold D. Melton
After founding the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in 1940, this person became the key strategist in the effort to end racial segregation, in particular meticulously challenging Plessy v. Ferguson
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The man who coined the term "good trouble"- this man was a pillar for social justice and advocate for nonviolent civil rights demonstrations.
Who is John Lewis
Home of one of the most affluent African American communities in the early 1900’s. The area was dubbed Black Wall Street because it was filled with African American doctors, lawyers, and entrepreneurs, even though Jim Crow was still the law of the land. And it was located where?
Where is Tusla, Oklahoma
Who was the first Black person to not give up their seat to a White passenger?
Who is Claudette Colvin
Who was the first African American football player at Auburn?
Who is James Owens
In what year did NAACP's Washington DC bureau helped advance the integration of the armed forces.
When is 1948
Founder and executive director of The Equal Justice Initiative, an organization dedicated to fighting injustice in the criminal justice system.
Who is Bryan Stevenson
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993—the first African American to hold that position.
Who is Colin Powell
Who was the first African American woman elected to the House of Representatives?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
Who was the first Black student to graduate from Auburn?
Who is Dr. Josetta Matthews