Warriors
This famous "conductor" on the "Underground Railroad" helped at least 70 slaves escape to the North.
Harriet Tubman
First African American to sign with a Major League baseball team, the Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson
At this event On Aug 28, 1963 the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr gave his I have a Dream speech.
March on Washington
A group of laws passed in the South after the Civil War that enforced segregation
Jim Crow Laws
What HBCU stands for
Historically Black colleges and Universities
A brilliant speaker and writer, he delivered "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July" among other speeches; the office of his abolitionist paper was in Lynn, MA.
Frederick Douglass
This African-American athlete won 4 gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin in track and field.
Jesse Owens
Black soldiers were not given the same respect as white soldiers, though several units fought on the front lines in this war.
WWI
Signed in 1964, by President Johnson, it ended legal segregation and gave new rights to people of color in the US
The Civil Rights Act
This respected Institute trained many freed blacks after the Civil War, was famous for its pilots/airmen who fought in WWI, and became a University in 1985.
Tuskegee Institute/University
President of the Tuskegee Institute, he believed education was the way to win equality and published Up from Slavery about his life.
Booker T Washington
This African-American agricultural scientist and botanist invented hundreds of new plant strains and food products.
George Washington Carver
In the summer of 1961, young people, both black and white, chartered buses which they rode down south in order to sit together at segregated restaurants. Many were beaten, raped and imprisoned. Collectively they were known as
The Freedom Riders
This amendment passed in 1865, freed the slaves in the US
The thirteenth amendment
In what year did the first black man graduate with a bachelors from Middlebury College in Vermont?
1798
1826
1863
1929
1826
A harvard graduate, he founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and was a champion of Civil Rights
WEB Du Bois
Also called 'Satchmo" and "Pops", this world-famous trumpeter from New Orleans popularized Jazz music.
Louis Armstrong
A Civil Rights Lawyer who won equal pay for black teachers and integrated the University of Alabama among other victories had his house firebombed twice.
Arthur Shores
This amendment, passed in 1870, gave Voting rights to men regardless of the color of their skin
The Fifteenth Amendment
This Supreme Court Justice went to Howard when he was denied entrance into University of Maryland law school.
Thurgood Marshall
In 1964, this African-American woman organized the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party; her activism eventually led to blacks being allowed to join the Democratic Party.
Fannie Lou Hamer
The DAR(daughters of the American Revolution) denied this world-famous singer the venue of Constitution Hall so instead she sang at the Lincoln Memorial for 75,000 people on April 9, 1939.
Marian Anderson
In 1956, a high school in Anderson County, Tennessee was forced to be the first school to integrate in the South. The first black students, who dealt with daily violence and murder attempts were known as
The Clinton 12
a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka
Founded in 1881, this HBCU women's only college in Atlanta is globally ranked and known for the highest number of women PHD's in STEM.
Spelman