Civil Rights Movement
Who is James Meredith?
It is on this day that President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all enslaved individuals in the United States
What is January 1, 1863?
The famed "Black Wall Street", known for its affluent African American community (known as the Greenwood district), was located in this city
What is Tulsa, OK?
This Washington State native redefined what it meant to be a great guitar player, being the first person to play the guitar upside down- he famously lit his guitar on fire at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967
Who is Jimi Hendrix?
This man is the inventor of the Three-Light Traffic Signal & the Gas Mask
Who is Garrett Morgan?
This movement involved disobeying rules about segregation in public transport
What is the Freedom Riders movement?
This holiday commemorates the month where the news of the Emancipation Proclamation made it to Galveston, Texas, ensuring all enslaved people in Texas to be free
What is Juneteenth?
This man was the subject of the first major court case regarding police brutality done to African Americans, resulting in a mass protest in Los Angeles County
Who is Rodney King?
This woman won a Grammy for Best Jazz Performance & Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1958 - the first Grammys ever won by a black artist.
This woman is the co-inventor of the Home Security System
Who is Mary Van Brittan Brown?
This state is where the case "Brown vs. Board of Education" arose
This University in Pennsylvania, established in 1837, was the first Historically Black College and University in the United States
These three laws passed in Congress were landmark victories for the Civil Rights Movement of 1952-1968 (point for each!)
What are the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968?
This famous musician revolutionized jazz in the late 1920s with his record 'Hot Fives and Sevens'
Who is Louis Armstrong?
George Crum invented this internationally loved salty snack
What are potato chips?
This is the false accusation that led to the death of Emmitt Till
What is whistling at a white woman?
This white Quaker abolitionist created the first public school for enslaved children in the early 1770s
Who is Anthony Benezet?
This bill, which allowed many WWII veterans to obtain affordable housing when they returned home, was not equally provided for Black veterans
What is the GI Bill?
Dubbed 'The King of Pop', this person was the first black person to break the color barrier on MTV
Who is Michael Jackson?
This man is the inventor of the lightbulb, or rather, the more effective and better lightbulb after Edison's prototype
Lewis Latimer
This person is the founder of the Black Panther Party (extra points for each person you can name!)
This year was when the last known enslaved people found in the State of Louisianna, the same year Mt. St Helens erupted
What is 1980?
This woman created the predecessor to feminine sanitary pads
Mary Beatrice Kenner