Latinx History
In this century, the original version of the popular song “La Bamba” was first written.
What is the 18th century?
In this year, the 19th Amendment was ratified granting women the right to vote passed.
What is 1920?
This famous American abolitionist and political activist was born in Dorchester County, MD.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This senator is the first Thai American woman elected to U.S. Congress, the first woman with a disability elected to U.S. Congress, and the first U.S. senator to give birth while in office.
Who is Tammy Duckworth?
Utah, Oklahoma, Oregon, Wyoming: one of these states used to belong to the country of Mexico.
What is Utah?
Activists founded the National Organization of Women (NOW) in this decade.
What is the 1960's?
In the 1800’s, in order to reduce the rate of free blacks in Maryland, the Maryland State Colonization Society sent free blacks to this country to settle.
What is Liberia?
This famous actor was sent to a Japanese internment camp as a child.
George Takei
The first Latina city council member in Montgomery County, Maryland
Who is Nancy Navarro?
The first woman to run for presidency in 1872, she was at 31 actually too young for the office and running 50 years before women had the right to vote.
Who is Victoria Woodhull?
In this year, the first cargo ship with 13 Africans arrived in Maryland.
What is 1642?
This Cambodian American doctor is best known for being the first Asian American to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1985 for his debut performance in the film, “The Killing Fields”
Who is Haing Somnang Ngor?
She is a well-known author of historical fiction based in the Dominican Republic.
Julia Alvarez
Known as the “Chinese Marie Curie” and the “Queen of Nuclear Research,” this woman made significant contributions to the study of nuclear physics and played a critical part of the Manhattan Project which created nuclear weapons.
Who is Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu?
This verb that means to release from slavery or emancipate.
What is manumit?
This person was the first Sikh American, the first Asian American, and the first Indian American to be elected to the U.S. Congress.
Who is Dalip Singh Saund?
This civil rights leader worked alongside Cesar Chavez and recently received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and had a stamp made in her honor.
Who is Dolores Huerta?
This well-known Black lesbian feminist writer and activist from the 1970s-1990s wrote Zami: A New Spelling of my Name.
Who is Audre Lorde?
The first free person of African descent to live in Maryland.
Who is Mathias de Sousa?
In the early 20th century, this person was the first Chinese woman in the United States to earn her doctorate and an advocate for the rights of women and the Chinese community in America.
Who is Mabel Ping-Hua Lee?