Black Firsts
The first Black female Vice-President of the United States.
Kamala Harris
Black activists protested the racial segregation of public transportation by boycotting buses and arranging their own carpools for work and errands. The boycott lasted 381 days, until new legislation ruled segregated buses unconstitutional in this southern city.
What is Montgomery, AL?
"Say it loud! I'm Black and I'm proud!"
Who is James Brown?
True or False: Prejudice + Power = Racism.
True
This new show on Disney+ is the newest streaming craze!
What is WandaVison?
It was this year that Barack Obama became the first African American to be RE-elected President of the United States.
What is 2012?
On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of this Washington, D.C. location.
What is the Lincoln Memorial?
What is Jay-z's real name?
What is Shaun Carter?
These are our judgements or things we assume about people/things around us. We all have them!
What are biases?
Disney+ recently added a classic film starring Brandy and Whitney Houston!
What is Cinderella?
In 1869, this university became the country's first Black law school.
What is Howard University?
This landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision ruled unanimously that segregation of public schools based on race was unconstitutional, marking a turning point for race relations in the US.
What is Brown V. Board of Education?
Name the two super famous African-American singers who starred in the film The Wiz.
Who are Michael Jackson and Diana Ross?
True or False: Anyone can be racist.
False.
Many JMU students recently got a $1,000 COVID-19 aid grant called this.
What is HEERF II?
She was the first African American woman millionaire.
Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi by three white men for doing this.
He was falsely accused of whistling at a white woman.
During her record-breaking Coachella Homecoming performance, Beyonce brought out this fellow singer to dance with her to her hit song, "Get Me Bodied".
Who is Solange?
This word describes when our different social identities (race, age, gender, etc.) interconnect and overlap to create new and different systems of discrimination.
What is intersectionality?
True or False: Trump was recently acquitted by republicans in his second impeachment trial.
Unfortunately true.
The first African-American to own his own movie studio.
Who is Tyler Perry?
She was the first African-American child to desegregate William Frantz Elementary School in 1960.
Hint: She's still alive today!
Who is Ruby Bridges?
Singing group Destiny's Child sang the theme song for this show, the first Black show on Disney Channel.
What is the Proud Family?
This woman coined the term intersectionality.
Who is Kimberle Crenshaw?
A winter storm in this U.S state has left millions of people without power.
What is Texas?