Achievements
The name given to the first Black students to enter Little Rock's Central High School
The Little Rock Nine
This holiday commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans
Juneteenth
Who was the first African American to play Major League Baseball?
Jackie Robinson
In what year did the Civil Rights movement begin?
1954
In what year did slavery end?
1865
The first black artist to win album of the year for his studio album "Innervisions"
Stevie Wonder
The period after Reconstruction which was marked by Black Codes, segregation, and intense violence
Jim Crow Era
The first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard. One of the founders of the NAACP. Started the newspaper/magazine The Crisis.
W.E.B. Dubois
The movement of 6 million African Americans out of the South to the Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970.
The Great Migration
Black or African Americans make up what percentage of the population in the U.S.?
15%
The first regiment of African Americans from the North to serve during the Civil War.
The 54th Massachusetts Regiment or the 54th Infantry Unit.
This case struck down the "Separate but Equal" doctrine and banned racial segregation
Brown v. Board of Education
She is known to be the first African American millionaire and as an entrepreneur with her own line of hair products.
Madame C.J. Walker
The world's first successful slave revolt.
In which year did Juneteenth become an official federal holiday?
2021
This basketball player has won the most NBA championships, winning 11 titles during his 13-year playing career.
Bill Russell
A slave rebellion in 1883 in Virginia where black slaves killed 55 white people
Nat Turner's Rebellion
This track star won four gold medals in the Berlin Olympics in 1936.
Jesse Owens
This movement began in 2013 in response to the shooting of Trayvon Martin
The Black Lives Matter Movement
Which President officially recognized Black History Month?
President Gerald Ford
Which author became the first African American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Toni Morrison
A group of Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated South 1961 were known as what?
Freedom Riders
A civil rights lawyer who worked for the NAACP and won many landmark cases. Became the first African American justice on the Supreme Court.
Thurgood Marshall
A movement in 1909 led by W.E.B Dubois and William Trotter. Many prominent African Americans met in Ontario to form an organization calling for civil and political rights for African Americans. Eventually led to the founding of the NAACP.
The Niagara Movement
The creator of Black History Month. He first envisioned weeklong celebration to encourage the coordinated teaching of Black history in public schools
Carter G. Woodson