Civil Rights Movement
Which amendment of the constitution protects the rights of African Americans?
What is the 13th Amendment
This acclaimed dancer and coreographer earned global recognition for his impact on modern dance, and started his own dance company in 1958
Who is Alvin Ailey
What does H.B.C.U stand for
Historically Black College and University
Who was the first black man to pass thr Ohio State Bar
John Mercer Langston
Who is Madame C.J Walker
Who was the first person to deny giving up their seat, thus sparking the Montgomery bus boycott?
Who is Claudette Colvin
Who is Jane Bolin
This record by the Sugarhill Gang became the first commercially sucessful rap record
What is Rapper's Delight
Who was trh first black computer at NASA
Who is Katherine Johnson
This African American author served as a drama teacher at the North Carolina College for Negros at Durham not North Carolina Central University. (Her most popular work is their eyes were watching God)
Who is Zora Neale Hurston
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama
What is the Birmingham Church Bombing
Who is Ralph Bunche
How long did Sophia have to fight?
What is all her life
The First Historically Black University to grant degrees in the United states was
What is Lincoln University
this black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma circulated a dollar 36 to 100 times before its 35 city blocks were tourched resulting in 300 people dead and 800 injured
What is Black Wall Street
What United States president signed the Civil Rights act of 1964?
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson
Who was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
Who is Malcolm X
What is the umbrella oragnization for black greek lettered organizations
What is the NPHC
This 12 year old became the first African American author to be published in 1773
Who is Phyllis Wheatley?
Who was the first woman in the United States to qualify as a Doctor of medicine.
Who is Rebecca Lee Crumpler?
This term is used to describe the events that took place the sunday of the Selma march to Montgomery after crossing the Edmund Pettus bridge
What is Bloody Sunday
This man is responsible for leading the first sucessful slave revolt
Who is Nat Turner
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
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
The 1981 lynching of this man bankrupted the KKK in Alabama and is the last recorded lynching in the US