African-American History
She sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to give up her seat
Rosa Parks.
a Jewish immigrant to the United States, born in the Kingdom of Bavaria in the German Confederation in 1829, is considered to be the inventor of jeans.
Levi Strauss
The religion of most Arab-Americans
Christianity
This was the year the U.S declared March as Women’s History Month
1987
These WWII code talkers also included soldiers from this Pacific Island Territory
Guam
a Famous court case that ended legal segregation in public schools
What is Brown v Board of Education
She is a Jewish-American musician who remains the only artist to release a chart-topping album in six consecutive decades
Barbra Streisand
This was the year the first Arabs came to America
1527
She was the first First Lady to take on responsibilities beyond hosting and entertaining in the White House
Eleanor Roosevelt
This 1898 congressional resolution annexed Hawaii to the United States
Newlands Resolution
He was the first African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall.
He was the first Jewish spouse of an American Vice President
Douglass Emhoff (Kamala Harris’s husband)
The First Arab Congressman
George Albert Kasen
Was the first lesbian rights organization in America
The Daughters of Bilitis
This 1950 law organized Guam as a U.S territory and granted U.S citizenship to residents
Guam Organic Act
This Black woman ran for U.S. president in 1972, becoming the first to do so from a major political party.
Shirley Chisholm
a university, based in Waltham, Massachusetts, that is named after the first Jewish Supreme Court Justice
Brandeis University (named for Louis Dembitz Brandeis, appointed to the Supreme Court in 1916 by President Woodrow Wilson)
This court ruling in 1915 classified Syrian Arabs as white, In 1944 it was expanded to include all Arabs.
Dow v US
She was the first female Supreme Court justice, elected in 1981
Sandra Day O’Connor
This Supreme Court case concerned land rights and colonial authority in American Samoa
King v Morton
This African American astronaut became the first Black woman to travel to space in 1992 aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour
Dr. Mae Jemison.
The year the first Jews arrived in what is now the United States of America
1654 (half points if you get the century)
This was the year the prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him) was first visited by angel Gabriel
610CE
She fought in the American Revolution dressed as a male soldier
Deborah Sampson
This Samoan tradition of communal landholding has been upheld by U.S courts
communal land tenure