African American Figures in History
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman
Proclaimed Jamaica's first national hero. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa
Marcus Garvey
This country has the largest population of African people outside of the African continent
Brazil
Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor
Who is Sidney Poitier
Who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
Who is Maya Angelou
Born on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska, the fourth of seven children of Grenada-born Louise Helen Little (née Norton) and Georgia-born Earl Little. He was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964, he was a vocal advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the Black community.
Malcolm X
This was only the second independent country in the western hemisphere (at the time, the first being the United States) and the first one ruled by Blacks
Haiti
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks
The daughter of a Barbadian mother and a Guyanese father, was the first black US Congresswoman. She also made history as the first woman in the United States to seek the presidential nomination of a major political party. Her iconic career in politics has inspired a generation of women to seek public office.
Shirley Chisolm
This country's former President made his way to Haiti via Jamaica, landing at Les Cayes, a port of asylum not only for South American independence fighters, but for freedom seekers throughout the Caribbean. Haiti's than president, Petion, provided him with arms, munitions and soldiers—on two conditions. First, agree to abolish slavery in the country as well as any of the future liberated countries in South America, and second, that any slaves seized by privateers be sent to Haiti to be freed. He was a military and political leader who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire.
Venezuela; Simon Bolivar
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
Alabama Church Bombing
Who was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
An American singer, actor, producer, and activist who was a key figure in the folk music scene of the 1950s, especially known for popularizing the Caribbean folk songs known as calypsos. He was also involved in various social causes, notably the civil rights movement.
Harry Belafonte
She is a Colombian human-rights and environmental activist and lawyer, and current Vice President of Colombia. She was born in Yolombó, a village in the Cauca Department. She first became an activist at 13, when construction of a dam threatened her community. After taking office, she became the first Afro-Colombian vice president in the country's history.
Who is Francia Elena Márquez Mina
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619
Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
Who is George Washington Carver
This American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the son of Haitian-born barber and itinerant laborer
W. E. B. Du Bois
Descendants of Africans represent a quarter of the population of Latin America. Ninety-eight percent are concentrated in the following countries:
Brazil, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico and Ecuador
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till