Civil Rights Movement
This civil and human rights activist joined the nation of Islam during a stint in jail, changing his name when he got out.
Malcolm X
I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
(Hint: conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years)
Harriet Tubman
The event that took place in 1969 at Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park) that celebrated upcoming musical talents
The Harlem Cultural Festival
The first African American Woman television show host?
Oprah Winfrey
The first African American to travel into space when the space shuttle Challenger lifts off on its third mission on August 30, 1983.
U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford
A nonviolent movement where students segregated lunch counters (luncheonettes), sit in all available spaces, request service, and then refuse to leave when denied service because of their race.
The Sit-in movement
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
Muhammad Ali
"I'm a savage, classy..."
Meg the Stallion
The first actor to star in mainstream Hollywood movies that depicted a Black man in a non-stereotypical fashion. Won an Academy Award, A Grammy, two Golden Globe Awards and A British Academy Film Award.
Sidney Poitier.
The 332nd Fighter Group was the first all-black/afro American bunch of pilots to fly in WWII and painted the tails of their P-47 jets.
Tuskegee Airmen/Retails
a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by
The NAACP
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The unofficial anthem of the civil rights movement
the Impressions' song "People Get Ready"
A three letter television station created for Black Entertainment
BET
The first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Booker T. Washington
A racially motivated attack on a church that caused the death of four girls in Alabama
the Alabama Church Bombing
"If you don't like something change it, and if you can't change it, change your attitude."
Maya Angelou
12 months after this once in a lifetime talent artists passed away, almost 35 million copies of his albums were sold around the world.
Michael Jackson
This show was about the upward mobility of an African- American family
(Hint: "We're moving on up, to the East Side, to a deee-luxe apartment in the sky)
The Jeffersons
This woman owned the first Black Afro American Hair salon and sold beauty products for Black Afro American people too.
Madame CJ Walker
Protest in Alabama from 1955-1956, that was sparked by Rosa Parks not being willing to give up her seat on the bus
Montgomery Bus Boycott
"Nobody's free until everybody's free."?
Fannie Lou Hamer
A song that was sung by Sam Cooke that represented the mood of the Civil Rights Movement
A Change is Gonna Come
This movie is based on a true story of faith, family, and football. He ended up making it to the NFL as an offensive player.
The Blind Side
The first African American to have a national park named after him?
(Hint: a prolific inventor and earned three patents
George Washington Carver