Richard Allen
The first national Black church in the United States.
What is the African Methodist Episcopal Church?
The name of the ship that brought slaves to Philadelphia in 1684
What is The Isabella?
The year that the fugitive slave act was introduced
What is 1793?
The person who is the founder of Black History Month
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
The date of Octavius V. Catto birth.
What is February 22, 1839?
The date of Richard Allen’s birth
What is February 14, 1760?
The number of captured Africans on the Isabella
What is 150?
The year that the U.S. Congress outlawed the import of African slaves
What is 1808?
The year that black history week originated
What is 1926?
The place where Octavius Catto was born
What is Charleston, S.C. ?
The nickname Bethel Church was known for, because it eventually birthed the African Methodist Episcopal Church
What is "Mother Bethel" ?
The number of Dutch Quaker and German Mennonite community members (in modern-day Germantown) who began plans to abolish slavery in 1688
What is 4?
The name of the act that made it legal for slave owners to retain the right to recapture enslaved people who escaped across state lines, if necessary with force
What is the fugitive slave act?
February was chosen to celebrate Black History in honor of this famous Black abolitionist’s birthday
Who was Frederick Douglass?
The current name of the Institute for Colored Youth, the place where Octavius Catto graduated valedictorian
What is Cheyney University?
The amount of money Richard Allen paid for his freedom
What is $2,000?
The exported items from Philadelphia that helped to support slavery
What are manufactured cotton items made from slave-picked cotton?
The year the emancipation proclamation was signed
What is 1863?
The name of the Black National Anthem
What is "Lift Every Voice and Sing?"
In 1864 Octavius Catto helped form this organization which focused on removing racial barriers in Union States
What is the National Equal Rights League?
The year Richard Allen became the first African American to be ordained in the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church
What is 1799?
The state that enacted gradual emancipation?
What is Pennsylvania?
The year slaves in Galveston Texas learned about emancipation
What is 1865?
The year that President Gerald Ford made Black History Month a national observance
What is 1969?
Octavius Catto was killed on this election date, in an attempt to discourage black residents from voting
What is October 10, 1871?