Protest Starters
This woman is famous known as the "the first lady of civil rights". Who famously refused to give up her seat on a bus 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks
His accomplishments include four NBA championships, four NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) Awards, four Finals MVP Awards, and two Olympic gold medals. This athlete was born and raised in Akron, Ohio.
Who is Lebron James
He was an former slave who learned to read and write while being a slave. This man escape from slavery and is known for anti-slavery newspaper called the "North Star"
Who is Fredrick Douglass
She was the first African American female millionaire with her own revolutionary black hair products
Who is Madam C.J Walker
This kid was a victim of a racial motivated lynching due to be accused of whistling at a white women in 1955
Who is Emmett Till
He said, "I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
Who is Muhammad Ali
This eloquent speech was presented in 1963 and delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
What is the "I Have a Dream Speech"
She served an important part of the so-called “Underground Railroad,” a secret path though slave-holding states for runaway slaves to escape to the north
Who is Harriet Tubman
This African American kid was walking home from a grocery store and fatally killed by a man named George Zimmerman.
Who is Trayvon Martin
He is the first African American to play for a Major League Baseball team, the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Who is Jackie Robinson
This march took placed on Oct 16, 1995 in Washington, D.C., to promote African American Unity. Nearly over a million people attended this protest. Speakers like Maya Angelou and Louis Farrakhan were present.
What is the "Million Man March"
This amendment states "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
What is the 13th Amendment
He is known as the "King of Pop."
Who is Michael Jackson
This African American man was a victim of a vicious beating by LAPD in 1991. This incident was recorded and made national attention. The officers involved were not convicted of any crime, and this ultimately sparked a the famous Los Angeles Riots.
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Who is Rodney King
He is credited with making the NBA internationally known. He is also the first African American man to become a billionaire.
Who is Michael Jordan
This group stood for Self-Defense, and was a Black Power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California
What is the Black Panthers
This famous African American man is married to woman named Michelle. Also known to have created the Affordable Care Act.
Who is Barack Obama
What became known as "Bloody Sunday," Martin Luther King Jr. along with over 600 marchers were stopped in their tracks by a small army of Alabama police officers. Law enforcement officers on horseback, armed with tear gas and batons, brutally attacked the demonstrators to drive them back to Selma
What is the Selma to Montgomery March
She was the first woman to win three Grand Slam tournament titles in one year since Hingis in 1997. She has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any player in the Open Era.
Who is Serena Williams
This famous African American activist famously quoted "By any means necessary"
Who is Malcolm X
This African American protest group was sparked after the fatal killing of Trayvon Martin.
What is Black Lives Matter
This African American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer is known for his songs "Superstition" and has also won 25 Grammy Awards. He is also blind.
Who is Stevie Wonder