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100
This organization is known as the "oldest and boldest" 

civil rights organization in the United States 

NAACP


100

Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4th of this year. 

1968

100

Ashley from Fresh Prince of Bel Air 

Tatiana Ali

100

Creator of Fenty 

Rihanna 

100

Known for being one the finest contraltos of her time and becoming the first African American to perform with the New York Metropolitan Opera.

Marian Anderson

200

A revolutionary political organization founded in October 1966 in Oakland, California.

The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense 

200

Marcus Garvey's Birth Year

1887

200

The world's wealthiest female musician 

Rihanna 

200

The first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in economics in the United States, and the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander 
200

Gamble and Huff's record label. 

Philadelphia International Records 

300

This organization emerged from the first wave of student sit-ins and formed at a May 1960 meeting organized by Ella Baker at Shaw University.

SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)

300

The year Dr. Molefi Kete Asante proposed the first African-Studies PhD program at Temple 

1986

300

Nothing Was the Same 

Drake 

300

97th Mayor of the City of Philadelphia

John F. Street


300

The institute for Colored Youth later became this HBCU

Cheyney University 

400

Founded in 1925, this was the first labor organization led by African Americans to receive a charter in the American Federation of Labor. 

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 

400

The year of Nat Turner's Revolt 

1831

400

This street was formerly known as Columbia Avenue

Cecil B. Moore Avenue


400

Became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1895.

W.E.B. Du Bois 

400

Becomes the first black woman elected to City Council in 1971.  

Ethel D. Allen
500

Founded by Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune, this organization is a non-profit organization founded in 1935 with the mission to advance the opportunities and the quality of life for African American women, their families, and communities. 

The National Council of Negro Women 
500

One year during the span of the Haitian Revolution 

1791-1804

500

The founder of OIC, Inc. 

Rev. Leon H. Sullivan 

500
Richard Allen founded this religious institution in 1816

The AME Church 

500

Formerly enslaved woman who belonged to George Washington. This woman escaped to freedom and was "Never Caught"

Oney Judge