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Historic Events

100

This 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.

Brown v. Board of Education

200

The year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott began in this Alabama city in 1955.

Montgomery, Alabama

300

This 1965 voting rights event turned violent on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Bloody Sunday (Selma to Montgomery march)

Notable People

100

 This founder of the Tuskegee Institute was a leading Black educator in the late 1800s.

 Booker T. Washington

200

This Black woman poet wrote “Still I Rise.”

Maya Angelou

300

This AME bishop helped found the NAACP and was a major civil rights voice.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Gospel & Black Church Songs

100

This gospel song includes the lyric, “I smile, even though I hurt.”

 I Smile

200

This traditional spiritual begins with the words, “Swing low…”

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

300

 This worship anthem repeats the phrase, “You know my name.”

 You Know My Name

Did You Know?

100

 This is the name of the historically Black fraternity founded at Cornell University in 1906.

Alpha Phi Alpha

200

The African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in this year (within five years).

1816

300

This Atlanta church pastored by Dr. King is named Ebenezer ______ Church.

Baptist