White Supremacists and Violence
This massacre devastated the area known as Black Wall Street.
What is the Tulsa Race Massacre or Tulsa Race Riot
This poet, perhaps the figure perhaps most closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance, is known for his poems such as "I Too Sing America" and "Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria."
Who is Langston Hughes?
Name the plaintiff in this court case that declared segregation constitutional as long as facilities were "separate, but equal"
Homer Plessy
Government organization founded in 1865 to help formerly enslaved people.
Freedman's Bureau
Name this anti-lynching advocate and author of Southern Horrors and the Red Record.
Ida B. Wells
The murder of Trayvon Martin and subsequent acquittal of George Zimmerman helped to spark this international movement against police brutality.
What is Black Lives Matter?
Name this Jamaican American singer, songwriter, activist, and actor known for his support of the Civil Rights Movement. You may recognize his hit, "The Banana Boat Song."
Who is Harry Belafonte?
Name this man, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and organizer of the March on Washington Movement in the midst of WWII.
Who is A. Phillip Randolph?
The NAACP, founded in 1909, grew out of this earlier group founded in 1905.
What is the Niagara Movement?
Name this individual who founded the National Council for Negro Women in 1935, was an adviser to FDR, and helped to create the Federal Council on Negro Affairs, known as the Black Cabinet.
Mary McLeod Bethune
This race riot, in which black soldiers fought against white police and citizens, took place in the midst of WWI.
What is the Houston Race Riot of 1917?
This black intellectual died in Ghana at the age of 95, one day before the March on Washington.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
Name this company at which the Greensboro sit-ins of 1960 took place.
What is Woolworth's?
Marcus Garvey and his organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League formed this shipping line.
What is Black Star Line
Name this Black feminist lesbian group named after a military assault led by Harriet Tubman during the American Civil War.
What is the Combahee River Collective?
Built in 1940 and named in honor of a Confederate brigadier general, this bridge was the central site of the Bloody Sunday attack in Selma Alabama.
What is the Edmund Pettus Bridge
He famously popularized the slogan "Black Power." Don't forget he changed his name in 1969.
Sometimes referred to as the "First Freedom Ride", this effort to test the enforcement of federal rulings desegregating interstate bus travel took place in April of 1947.
What is the Journey of Reconciliation?
Ella Baker was considered the godmother of this Civil Rights Organization. She organized a conference at Shaw University in April of 1960 which lead to it being founded.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?
She was the president of the Women's Political Council in Montgomery, Alabama. She helped plan and execute the Montgomery Bus boycott.
Who is Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
Name this town in Mississippi, famous for being the site of the 1964 murder of three Civil Rights workers, Goodwin, Chaney, and Schwerner. It is also the site from which then presidential hopeful Ronald Reagan launched his 1980 general election campaign.
Philadelphia, Mississippi
Name this American painter, famous for his work documenting the Great Migration
Who is Jacob Lawrence?
Name this African American physician who was charged with murder in 1925 after a confrontation which ensued when he moved into an all white neighborhood in Detroit.
Ossian Sweet
Mary Church Terrell was the first president of this group of suffragettes and reformers.
Pauli Murray coined this term to describe the legal regime of sexism.
What is Jane Crow?