1920's
This cultural movement celebrated Black art, music, and literature in New York.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This boycott began after Rosa Parks’ arrest.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This 1994 television show centered on six young Black professionals in Brooklyn.
What is Living Single?
This Supreme Court case declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This legendary pop icon was known as the “King of Pop.”
Who is Michael Jackson?
This migration pattern dramatically increased Black populations in cities like Chicago and Detroit during the 1920s.
What is the Great Migration?
This 1957 event involved nine Black students integrating Central High School.
What is the Little Rock Nine?
This 1991 videotaped police brutality event led to national protests after the officers were acquitted.
Who is Rodney King?
This organization, founded in 1909, works to ensure political, educational, and social equality.
What is the NAACP?
This soul artist’s 1971 album What’s Going On responded directly to police brutality and the Vietnam War.
Who is Marvin Gaye?
This historically Black university in Washington, D.C., became a major intellectual hub during the 1920s.
What is Howard University?
This 1955 murder of a 14-year-old boy shocked the nation and energized the civil rights movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
This Supreme Court justice, appointed in 1991, became the second Black justice in U.S. history.
Who is Clarence Thomas?
This Black activist and scholar co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966.
Who is Huey P. Newton?
This R&B legend released the album Songs in the Key of Life in 1976.
Who is Stevie Wonder?
This philosopher and sociologist edited The Crisis and helped shape debates within the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is W. E. B. Du Bois?
This civil rights leader founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This hip-hop group’s 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back continued shaping political rap influence into the 1990s.
Who is Public Enemy?
This Reconstruction-era amendment granted Black men the right to vote in 1870.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution?
This jazz singer recorded “Strange Fruit,” a powerful protest song.
Who is Billie Holiday?
This intellectual debate between W.E.B. Du Bois and this educator centered on accommodation vs. agitation strategies.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
What city's bus boycott of 1953 influenced tactics later used in Montgomery?
What is the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott?
This 1994 federal legislation included expanded prison funding and a “three strikes” provision, significantly contributing to mass incarceration trends in the late 1990s.
What is the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act?
This Black feminist scholar wrote Ain’t I a Woman? in 1981.
Who is bell hooks?
This neo-soul artist’s 1997 debut album helped redefine R&B aesthetics with Afrocentric visual imagery.
Who is Erykah Badu?