Authors
Wrote the trilogy March.
Who is John Lewis?
Name given to African American teenagers who integrated Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
Black athlete who earned four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Germany.
Who is Jesse Owens?
Name of the civil rights publication produced by the NAACP and written by DuBois.
What is the Crisis?
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
Who is Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.?
Escaped from slavery and later wrote a narrative of his life as a slave.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Worked for the NAACP organizing marches and getting people to vote. Was assassinated outside his home in 1963.
Who is Medgar Evers?
The first African American ballerina to perform as the principal dancer for the American Ballet Company.
Who is Misty Copeland?
Boycott which lasted for one year and resulted in the integration of public transportation.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
“You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
Who is Malcolm X?
Award-winning journalist and author of Freeman.
Who is Leonard Pitts, Jr.?
Refused to give up her seat on the bus 9 years before Rosa Parks.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
The first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of America.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The year that Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ended segregation in schools.
What is 1954?
“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Cora travels his Underground Railroad which runs on real tracks.
Who is Colson Whitehead?
Female advocate fighting against lynching. Wrote numerous anti-lynching articles; founding member of NAACP.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
First African American Commissioner Officer in the US Navy in 1863.
Who was Robert Smalls?
The court case which made “separate but equal” the law of the land.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
“If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.”
Who is John Lewis?
Explains how our penal system has become the New Jim Crow.
Who is Michelle Alexander?
Young girl who organized a student strike because of condition of her school.
Who was Barbara Rose Johns?
The first African American to earn a degree from Harvard University.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
This movement was a precursor to the NACCP.
What is the Niagara Movement?
“Photography was my choice of weapons.”
Who is Gordan Parks?