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The week-long observance launched in 1926.
What is Negro History Week?
Bus boycott sparked in 1955
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
First Black woman elected to Congress
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of serving African American students
What are HBCUs? (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
The “Father of Black History.”
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
Leader of the “I Have a Dream” speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
NASA mathematician featured in 2017 film Hidden Figures
Who is Katherine Johnson
First Black woman president of an Ivy League school.
Who is Ruth Simmons?
Organization founded to preserve Black history and culture
What is ASALH?
Lunch counter protest movement.
What are sit-ins?
She was the first African American woman to have a screenplay produced and recited poetry at the 1993 presidential inauguration
What is Maya Angelou
Scientist behind mRNA vaccine breakthroughs
Who is Kizzmekia Corbett?
Chicago’s first Black mayor.
Who is Harold Washington?
Law ending segregation in public spaces.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
First Black woman Vice President
Who is Kamala Harris
The first Black Rhodes Scholar.
Who is Alain L. Locke
Cultural movement of Black art in the 1920s.
Cultural movement of Black art in the 1920s. What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Law designed to enforce the 15th Amendment and eliminate legal barriers that prevented Black Americans from voting
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
First Black woman Supreme Court Justice
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson
The year Georgiana Simpson, Sadie Tanner Mossell, and Eva Beatrice Dykes became the first Black women to receive Ph.D.s.
What is 1921