Black History
This inventor created the three-light traffic signal in 1923, revolutionizing road safety.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
This abolitionist escaped slavery and later became a leading voice for freedom, writing an influential autobiography.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This phrase describes programs that help formerly incarcerated individuals transition back into society.
What is Reentry?
This poet coined the phrase “I am the darker brother” in his work “I, Too.”
Who is Langston Hughes?
This Georgia-born educator founded the Tuskegee Institute and became one of the most influential Black leaders of the late 19th century.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
She was the first Black woman pilot in the U.S. military and flew during World War II.
Who is Willa Brown?
This activist and author spent time incarcerated before founding the organization Critical Resistance to challenge the prison-industrial complex.
Who is Angela Davis?
Chain gangs were most commonly associated with this Southern state’s prison labor system.
What is Georgia?
This 1970s TV show was the first to feature a predominantly Black cast in a sitcom format.
What is “Good Times”?
Known as the “city too busy to hate,” this Georgia city was central to the Civil Rights Movement.
What is Atlanta?
This mathematician helped NASA put astronauts into orbit, but wasn’t recognized until decades later.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This boxer, once imprisoned for draft evasion, became a global icon for both sports and civil rights.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This federal act, passed in 2018, aimed to reduce recidivism and reform sentencing laws.
What is the First Step Act?
This artist’s vibrant depictions of Black life earned her a place on a U.S. postage stamp in 2005.
Who is Romare Bearden?
This historically Black college in Atlanta counts Martin Luther King Jr. among its alumni.
What is Morehouse College?
Before MLK’s “I Have a Dream,” this activist gave a fiery speech titled “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This Harlem Renaissance poet was once jailed for draft resistance but went on to inspire generations with his words.
Who is Claude McKay?
This practice forced incarcerated individuals to work in fields, mines, and railroads after the Civil War.
What is convict leasing?
This choreographer founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1958, blending modern dance with African American cultural expression.
Who is Alvin Ailey?
This Georgia-born activist co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Who is John Lewis?
This group of students staged a sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960.
Who are the Greensboro Four?
This Detroit housewife and activist was murdered by the KKK in 1965 after marching in Selma, Alabama, making her one of the few white women killed during the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Viola Liuzzo?
This blues legend sang about chain gangs and prison life in songs like “Midnight Special.”
Who is Lead Belly?
This hip-hop group’s 1989 song “Fight the Power” became an anthem for social justice.
Who is Public Enemy?
This Georgia city was the site of the 1946 lynching known as the “Moore’s Ford Bridge Massacre,” often called the last mass lynching in U.S. history.
What is Monroe, Georgia?