Entertainers
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Civil Rights
Discrimination
Famous Quotes
100
This black entertainer got his start as part of a musical group with his siblings. He is known for hits including "Thriller" and "Billy Jean."
Who is Michael Jackson?
100
This boxer, born Cassius Clay, called himself the greatest of all time.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
100
This African-American Muslim minister spent six years in jail before becoming a leader within the Nation of Islam and advocate of black power.
Who is Malcolm X?
100
Put the following periods in order from earliest to latest: slavery, Civil War, Jim Crow segregation, Reconstruction.
What is slavery, Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation?
100
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
Who is Barack Obama?
200
This rapper-turned-actor is one of Hollywood's leading men. He got his start as the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Who is Will Smith?
200
He was the first professional black baseball player in Jim Crow America.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
200
This woman, married to another civil rights leader, became a leader in the movement herself after her husband's assassination in 1968.
Who is Coretta Scott King?
200
This famous novel, set in Maycomb, Alabama, tells the story of a young white girl learning about the realities of racism in the South in the 1960s.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
200
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Who is Malcolm X?
300
This media proprietor is called the "Queen of All Media". She has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is currently North America's only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
300
This basketball player was a star at the University of North Carolina before leading the Chicago Bulls to six NBA titles.
Who is Michael Jordan?
300
This African American leader, born in 1813, was an African-American social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
300
This term referred to policies of racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction.
What is Jim Crow?
300
I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
400
This actor portrayed Martin Luther King, Jr. in the recent film Selma.
Who is David Oyelowo?
400
This American sprinter and long jumper embarrassed Adolf Hitler at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by winning four gold medals.
Who is Jesse Owens?
400
This American civil rights activist and Baptist minister was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as a shadow U.S. Senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997.
Who is Jesse Jackson?
400
This clause in the U.S. Constitution said that slaves would be counted as less than free people when determining population.
What is the Three Fifths Clause?
400
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
500
This black film director has two Oscar nominations. He's best known for the films Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X.
Who is Spike Lee?
500
Arguably one of the Top 5 baseball players of all-time, this player (1934-present) broke the "unbreakable" career home run record held by Babe Ruth.
Who is Hank Aaron?
500
This black leader was one of the founders of the NAACP and wrote the book The Souls of Black Folk. He disagreed with Booker T. Washington on the best path to civil rights for blacks.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
500
This Supreme Court case ruled that laws that allowed "separate but equal" schools for blacks and whites were unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
500
"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence."
Who is Booker T. Washington?
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