Mali Empire (1300s)
Who was the most famous Mansa (emperor) of Mali, renowned for his extravagant Hajj (pilgrimage) to Mecca starting in 1324?
Who is Mansa Musa?
This city, the original Songhai capital, was the center of the empire located on the Niger River, before it conquered Timbuktu.
What is Gao?
This 1850 US law created harsh penalties for anyone aiding runaway slaves, compelling free states to return them to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
What is the constitutional amendment, ratified in 1870, that granted African American men the right to vote?
What is the 15th Amendment?
This cultural and artistic explosion centered in New York City during the 1920s and 1930s, featuring writers like Langston Hughes and artists like Aaron Douglas.
What is the Harlem Renaissance
This city, which Mansa Musa made famous, became Mali's main center of learning, commerce, and the site of the prestigious Sankore University.
What is Timbuktu?
This ruler of Songhai, who reigned from 1464–1492, rapidly expanded the empire by conquering Timbuktu and Djenné with his powerful military.
Who is Sonni Ali?
This famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, herself a former slave, was often called "Moses" for leading hundreds of people to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This set of state and local laws, enacted after the Civil War, enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
In 1939, this great opera singer was denied the right to perform at Constitution Hall, leading her to give a historic open-air concert at the Lincoln Memorial instead.
Who is Marian Anderson
The Mali Empire's founding and constitution are chronicled in this famous oral epic, which tells the story of its first ruler, Sundiata Keita.
What is the Epic of Sundiata?
After overthrowing Sonni Ali's son, this devout Muslim ruler centralized the Songhai government and made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1496.
Who is Askia
This former slave and abolitionist began publishing the influential anti-slavery newspaper, The North Star, in 1847.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This educator and founder of the Tuskegee Institute gave the influential "Atlanta Compromise" speech in 1895, urging Black Americans to focus on industrial education and economic advancement over immediate civil rights.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Signed into law in 1965, this act overcame legal barriers at the state and local levels that had prevented African Americans from exercising their constitutional right to vote.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
Mansa Musa's 1324 journey caused inflation in this Egyptian city due to the massive amounts of gold he distributed.
What is Cairo?
Under the Askia dynasty, this legal system, based on Islamic principles, was instituted across the empire to ensure uniform law and order.
What is Sharia law?
In 1831, this enslaved preacher led one of the most significant slave revolts in US history in Southampton County, Virginia.
Who is Nat Turner?
This influential journalist and activist led a powerful anti-lynching crusade in the late 19th century, using statistics to expose the true reasons behind the violence.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This 1954 Supreme Court decision unanimously declared state-sponsored segregation in public schools unconstitutional, overturning Plessy v. Ferguson's "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
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What kingdom created Terracota sculptures?
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The Songhai Empire collapsed in 1591 after this northern African power, armed with European firearms, defeated the Songhai army at the Battle of Tondibi.
What is Morocco
This landmark 1857 Supreme Court ruling declared that Black people, whether enslaved or free, were not citizens and could not sue in federal court.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
This organization, co-founded by W.E.B. Du Bois and others in 1909, became the nation's leading civil rights advocacy group.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
This United Nations mediator was the first African American (and person of color) to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 for his work on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Who is Ralph Bunche?