Sports
First athlete to win 4 gold medals in an Olympic Game?
Who is Jesse Owens
Born on February 4, 1913, she is known as the mother of the modern civil rights movement. On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, she was arrested and put in jail for refusing to move to the back of the bus.
Who is Rosa Parks
What is Juneteenth and why do we celebrate it?
What is Juneteenth celebrates the freedom of more than 250,000 slaves at the close of the Civil War.
People that were raised in Overtown are often known as?
Who are Towners
What was the first Black owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange?
What is BET
Who is the only tennis player to win ten Grand Slam titles in two different decades
Who is Serena Willams
What is a boycott?
What is a means of a protest refusing to buy products or use services.
What president issued the Emancipation Proclamation
Who is Abraham Lincoln
Which Black Boxer Lived in the area known as Liberty City?
Who is Mohammed Ali
Who was last Black actress to win the Academy Award’s Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2006?
Who is Jennifer Hudson
Who is Willie O' Ree
What is the slave voyage that traveled from Africa to America known as?
What is The Middle Passage
Where was the first Juneteenth holiday celebrated?
What is Galveston, TX
In what year did Overtown become a city?
What is 1896?
Which singer is remembered as the ‘queen of jazz’
Who is Ella Fitzgerald
Negro Baseball league pitcher elected Hall of Fame 1971
Who is Satchel Paige
A prominent antislavery activist, he helped facilitate Underground Railroad activity from his home in Pennsylvania, until he moved to Canada.
Who is Abraham Doris Shadd
What is it called when a certain group of people are kept from voting?
What is Disenfranchisement
________ helped in the decline of Liberty City in the 1960’s?
What is the Construction of Interstate 95
Who played Uncle Phil in The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air?
Who is James Avery
Ladies World Figure Skating Championship in 1986
Who is Debbie Thomas
What leading crusader against lynching founded the first black women’s suffrage organization?
Who is Ida B. Wells
The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 in order to protect the civil rights of freed slaves after what war?
What is the Civil War?
1980 Riot occurred because of the injustice surrounding the murder of?
Who is Arthur McDuffe
Stevie Wonder helped make what national holiday
Martin Luther King Jr. Day