Juneteenth
This is the birthplace of the Juneteenth holiday.
What is Galveston, TX
"I, too, am America." is the notable last line in this famed African American poet's poem, "I, Too."
Who is Langston Hughes?
This dessert is traditionally eaten during Juneteenth celebrations because its color represents the bloodshed, strength, and resilience of formerly enslaved people.
What is red velvet cake?
Growing up, this family member had a pet pig named Floppy.
Who is mom/grandma?
Also referred to as the New Negro Movement (centered in NYC), this golden age for African American culture with artists and intellectuals using their work to challenge racial stereotypes and celebrate Black identity is most widely known as...
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Juneteenth is also referred to as this "day."
What is Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, or Jubilee Day?
These 3 crops were staples in North Carolina when Rommie, Sr was growing up.
What are Cotton, Peanuts, and Tobacco?
Charleston had an 80% decrease in production of this "Carolina Gold" crop after the Civil War.
What is rice?
Grandma Elizabeth was born in this year, before women could vote.
What is 1912?
One of the largest film production studios in the US established this man as the first African American to outright own a major production studio.
Who is Tyler Perry?
This is how long it took for enslaved people in Texas to learn they were free.
What is 2.5 years?
Gombo is the French word for this southern and creole staple that traveled with enslaved Africans from their homeland to America.
What is okra?
These meals were a symbol of resilience, resistance, and resourcefulness for Black travelers during the Jim Crow era as they ensured sustenance, dignity, and a taste of home in a time where Blacks were denied service at many restaurants. They typically contained items like fried chicken, boiled/deviled eggs, fruit, cake, and cornbread.
What are shoebox lunches (or meals)?
She is the first-born granddaughter to James Monroe and Elizabeth Addison.
Who is Charlene/aunt Charlene?
After the Great Migration, the movement of 6 million Blacks out of the rural south roughly between 1916-1970, the population of Blacks in this city founded by Haitian pioneer trader, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, grew from 2% to 33%.
What is Chicago?
This Constitutional Amendment officially abolished slavery across the US.
What is the 13th Amendment (ratified on Dec 6, 1865, officially abolished chattel slavery in the US)?
Juneteenth is celebrated as El Dia de los Negros in this Latin American country.
What is Coahuila, Mexico (The Mascogos are descendants of Black Seminoles who fled slavery in the US in the 1800s and found refuge in Mexico. They have celebrated Juneteenth for over 150 years)?
While the sweet potato pie is seen as a legacy of the slave diet, this dessert, associated with a tight knit African American community, emerged as a tasty alternative that signified autonomy, sovereignty, and independent identity.
What is bean pie?
Our paternal African ancestry traced our lineage back to this tribe known for their seafaring skills and the significant role they played in anti-slavery naval patrols.
Who are the Kru people?
These African American men worked as attendants on luxury railway sleeping cars primarily from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. They were instrumental in the development of the Black middle class and played a significant role in the early civil rights movement.
Who are Porters or specifically Pullman Porters (Pullman was the largest employer of African Americans)?
This "grandmother" of Juneteenth spent a lifetime advocating for its national recognition. In 2021, her efforts were honored as she stood beside President Biden when Juneteenth was finally signed into law.
Who is Dr Opal Lee?
George Crum, also known as George Speck, invented one of dad/grandpa's and Aiden's favorite snacks, by accident in 1853.
What are potato chips?
Led by Georgia Gilmore, the "Club from Nowhere" was a group of Black women in Montgomery, AL who funded the Montgomery Bus Boycott in secret by doing this.
What is cooking and selling food?
This family member was dubbed "God's favorite," by their siblings.
Who is Rashan?
Who is George Washington Carver and the peanut?