Black Panther Party
Who were the two most famous arrested Black Panther leaders in New Haven?
Ericka Huggins and Bobby Seale
Who was the principal leader of the Amistad mutiny?
Sengbe Pieh (Joseph Cinque)
How many teachers were jailed in the 1975 strike?
90
Mr. Sammy's favorite baseball team
Boston Red Sox
What was the original city plan for New Haven called?
The Nine Square Plan
How many people attended the New Haven Mayday Protests in 1970?
Which former president represented the Amistad captives?
John Quincy Adams
The name of the NHFT president at the time
Frank Carrano
Three of Mr. Sammy's hobbies
Activism, soccer, history, being a cowboy, basketball
Two Billionaires who own significant media companies
Elon Musk (X/Twitter), Jeff Bezos (Washington Post), Rupert Murdoch (Fox News)
Name the BPP's three key areas of activism
Free breakfast program, political education (newspapers, theory, etc), armed patrols
The year the Amistad Rebellion occurred and the year the court case ended
1839 and 1841
What threatened action caused the jailed teachers to be freed?
A general strike in New Haven
Mr. Sammy's Birthday (date and year)
October 12, 2002
What does the "Epstein Class" refer to?
What does "Survival Pending Revolution" describe?
The BPP wanted revolution, but in order to make that happen, they need to feed people through their free breakfast programs, community health programs.
What was the Triangle Trade?
A transatlantic economic system linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas through the exchange of manufactured goods, enslaved people, and raw materials.
What is a union?
An organization of all workers in one workplace/industry that advocates for the rights of its members
Mr. Sammy rode his bike from which city to which city
Seattle to Boston
The annual amount of property taxes that Yale does not pay
$146 million (within 10 million counts)
What was the Rainbow Coalition?
A coalition of organizations that represented poor people of different races (Black Panther Party, Young Lords, Young Patriots)
Why was the Amistad Ruling significant?
It proved that illegally kidnapped Africans had the right to fight for their freedom, it boosted the American abolitionist movement, and it resulted in a historic U.S. Supreme Court victory. (1 answer is enough)
Civil Rights/Black Power Movement, Anti-Vietnam War Movement, Women's Rights Movement, Environmental Movement/Earth Day, Gay Rights Movement
People's history- how ordinary people changed the world in the past (social movements or labor movement also count)
What was Martin Luther King Jr doing when he was murdered and where was he?
Supporting a strike of sanitation workers in Memphis, TN