West Africa/Atlantic Slave Trade
This was the first kingdom in West Africa.
What is Ghana?
Languages that develop when two or more languages are combined.
What are creole languages?
This holiday is the celebration of the emancipation of slaves.
What is Juneteenth?
This amendment ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment
This man was the first black man to be appointed to the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The Atlantic Slave Trade began this century.
What is the 15th century?
This instrument was introduced to America by Africans.
What is a banjo?
This religious sect/group became the leaders of the white abolitionists.
Who are the Quakers?
After its formation in 1909, this organization became the primary defender of the rights of African Americans.
What is the NAACP?
This man gave the speech "The Ballot or the Bullet".
Who is Malcolm X?
In addition to The Netherlands and Portugal these two other European countries participated in the Atlantic Slave Trade.
What are England and Spain?
This South Carolinian city was the leading slave port in North America.
What is Charleston?
In 1831 he initiated a large scale uprising with 60 to 70 other slaves and killed more than 57 white men, women and children.
Who is Nat Turner?
This Supreme Court case declared school segregation was unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs Board of Education?
She was the first black woman to run for President of the United States.
Who is Shirley Chisolm?
This was the name of the portion of the Atlantic Slave Trade from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
She was the poet of the first published book by an African American woman and on the second book ever published by an American woman.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
A former slave who became the one of the leading African American social reformers, authors, orator and newspaper publisher.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This man founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first labor union for African Americans.
Who is A. Phillip Randolph?
This person was the first black billionaire in America.
Who is Robert Johnson?
This ruler of the Mali Empire was possibly the richest an in human history.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This former servant was the first documented case of a black man being punished more harshly than his white peers.
Who is John Punch?
This man was the most important white abolitionist and founded the first abolitionist newspaper The Liberator.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
This small northwestern Kansas town was established freed African Americans during Reconstruction.
What is Nicodemus, KS?
This man was the first person to use the term "Black Power" as a political slogan.
Who is Stokely Carmichael?