Many Rivers to Cross Episode 1: The Black Atlantic (1500-1800)
Many Rivers to Cross Episode 2: The Age of Slavery (1800 -1860)
Malcolm X
1966: Birth of the Panthers
100
Death was so frequent on slave ships (nearly 1 out of 5 Africans) that this animal often followed the ships.
What are sharks?
100
The first sit-in protest at St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia potentially inspired this future Civil Rights leader to the same during the Montgomery Bus Boycotts.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
Malcolm went to prison for this crime in 1946.
What is burglary? (also potentially miscegenation)
100
On February 21, 1965, this political figure was assassinated, further radicalizing the founders of the Black Panther Party.
Who is Malcolm X?
200
The journey enslaved people were forced to take from Africa to the Americas across the Atlantic Ocean was nicknamed this.
What is the Middle Passage?
200
At the close of the 1700s, this city was the largest city in the United States and home to a burgeoning abolitionist movement that opposed slavery on religious grounds. It was also a magnet for a steadily growing population of free black people.
What is Philadelphia, PA?
200
Malcolm's father Earl was tragically killed this way in 1931.
Tied up and put on the tracks in front of a Lansing streetcar. (Most likely by the KKK-like hate group, the Black Legion)
200
The Black Panther Party was founded by these two individuals who met in college.
Who are Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton?
300
Slaves often escaped the South by making it to the Spanish controlled territory of this current U.S. State.
What is Florida?
300
Slave holders began feeling guilty when they read the story of Exodus and think about the delivery of God's chosen people from this African civilization.
What is Egypt?
300
While in prison, Malcolm is converted to this religious organization.
What is the Nation of Islam?
300
Over the course of several days in October 1966, the founders of the Black Panther Party wrote this guiding document for the Party.
What is the Ten Point Program: What We Want/What We Believe?
400
Over 40% of all slaves entered the United States through this city.
What is Charleston, South Carolina?
400
In the early 1800s, every state in the North was on the road to abolition, and this political transformation was accompanied by a religious one known as this.
What is the Evangelical Revival?
400
The movie makes mention of this American professional baseball player who broke Major League Baseball's (MLB) color barrier when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
400
To make money to buy more guns, the party started to sell a book of quotations from this Chinese revolutionary.
Who is Chairman Mao Tse-Tung?
500
In the wake of the rebellion, South Carolina imposed harsh new slave laws. They banned drumming and this skill.
What is literacy?
500
In 1787, this former enslaved person and other Black congregants initiated the first sit-in style protest at St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, refusing to leave the main worship area when they were ordered to move to a segregated balcony.
Who is Richard Allen?
500
While in prison, in an attempt of self-education, Malcolm copied this entire book by hand in order to learn new words and their definitions.
What is the Dictionary?
500
At just 16 years old, this person was the first member recruited to the Black Panther Party.
Who is Bobby Hutton?