Historic Male Leaders
Prominent black nationalist leader who served as a spokesman for the Nation of Islam during the 1950s and '60s.
Malcom X
The most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad. Having escaped slavery herself, she returned time and time again to rescue family and friends in Maryland between 1849 and the outbreak of the Civil War.
Harriet Tubman
What HBCU did Megan Thee Stallion attend?
TSU
Texas Southern University
Because many slaves knew the secret meanings of these songs, they could be used to signal many things. For example, Harriet Tubman used the song "...." to tell escaping slaves to get off the trail and into the water to make sure the dogs slave catchers used couldn't sniff out their trail.
Wade in the Water
Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
13th Amendment
Urged Black americans to practice economic self-help rather than seek political rights. Urged them not to "make waves" politically.
Booker T. Washington
She is considered a prominent leader that refused to give up her seat to a white man and started the Bus Boycott.
Rosa Parks
Name all 8 HBCUs in Georgia
Albany State University, Clark Atlanta University, Fort Valley State University, Morehouse College, Morris Brown College, Paine College, Savannah State University, and Spelman College
a flowering of African American artistic creativity during the 1920's centered in the Harlem community of NYC.
Harlem Renissance
The ruling in this Supreme Court case upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races."
Plessy v. Ferguson
Most prominent black critic of Booker T. Called for FULL POLITICAL, economic and social equality for all African Americans. He urged the "talented tenth" to get education and spearhead the fight for equal rights.
W.E.B. Du Bois
African American Woman Starts A Business Which Will Make Her a Millionaire, 1903.
Sarah Breedlove MacWilliams
AKA Madam C. J. Walker
How many HBCUs in the nation?
Estimate accepted
What D9 organization as founded at Howard University on January 15, 1908.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc
In this milestone decision, the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. It signaled the end of legalized racial segregation in the schools of the United States, overruling the "separate but equal" principle set forth in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case.
Brown v Board of Education
]As counsel to the NAACP, he utilized the judiciary to champion equality for African Americans. In 1954, he won the Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme Court ended racial segregation in public schools.
Thurgood Marshall
A compelling speaker for abolitionism, gives her famous "Ain't I a Woman" speech in Akron, Ohio. Truth would later move to Battle Creek, Michigan. On June 1, 1834
Sojourner Truth
Top 5 HBCU in order.
1. Spelman
2. Howard
3. FAMU
4. Tuskegee
5. Morehouse
What is the Black National Anthem?
John Rosamond Johnson composed the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing"
Following up the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954, the Arkansas school board voted to integrate the school system
NAACP chose Arkansas as the place to push integration because it was considered a relatively progressive Southern state.
What was this event?
The Desegregation of Little Rock
Founder and leader of the Black Panther Party.
Huely Newton
First African-American woman to serve in the U.S. Congress. A Democrat, she represented the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. In 1972 she became the first African-American woman to run for president with a major political party.
Shirley Chisholm
Which HBCU was named after John D. Rockefeller's wife?
Spelman College
Why was February chosen for Black History Month?
It had the birthdays of President Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass
A campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters.
Freedom Summer