Prominent Figures
This individual is one of the most well-known conductors of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The journey across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas where many enslaved people died.
What is the Middle Passage?
This ancient African kingdom was the first to adopt Christianity in Africa
What is Axum?
The amendment that granted Black men voting rights.
What is the 15th amendment?
What is the Great Migration?
Rosa Parks is most known for her pivotal role in this Alabama protest.
What is the Montgomery bus boycott?
This individual advocated for black nationalism and African American self-improvement.
Who is Malcom X?
What was the destination of enslaved Africans during the Stono Rebellion? Why were they going to there?
Spanish Florida, Spain abolished slavery in Florida.
The profitable trade that took place across the Sahara dessert.
What is Salt and Gold Trade?
This amendment guaranteed equal protection under law, as well as citizenship to every person who was born and naturalized in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment ?
What is a trumpet?
What are boycotts, marches, sit-ins?
She was a first African American woman millionaire; she created beauty and hair products for women of color.
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
List one Black American Spiritual and the meaning of the song.
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Mansa Musa ruled this kindom.
What is the Kingdom of Mali?
This title of this minstrel show became known as an entire era of racial violence, brutality, and discrimination against African Americans.
What is "Jim Crow"?
This Harlem Renaissance poet wrote "The Weary Blues" and "Harlem".
Who is Langston Hughes?
A Black Power party that advocated for self-defense and helped organize free breakfasts for children.
Who are the Black Panthers?
This individual was a founder of NAACP, fought for civil rights for African Americans in early 20th century
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
This 1863 wartime order, declared freedom for enslaved people held in the Confederate states still at war against the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This African Kingdom was first to come into contact with Portuguese and convert to Catholicism.
What is Kingdom of Kongo.
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause?
This Harlem Renaissance scholar wrote about the "New Negro movement" that emerged in the North.
Who is Alain Locke?
This law banned racial, gender and ethnicity based discrimination in all public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
He led the largest pan-African movement in African American history as founder of the UNIA.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
Name four cash crops that led to the expansion of slavery in the Americas
What are sugar, cotton, indigo, tobacco and rice?
The term for the practice of Africans blending local spiritual practices with Christianity and/or Islam.
What is religious syncretism?
These laws were created in the Southern states following the Civil war to keep African Americans in conditions as close to slavery as possible.
What are Black codes?
She was a famous African American blues singer. She was names "Empress of the Blues"
This event took place in Selma, Alabama exposed the violence of Southern racism and led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
What is Bloody Sunday?
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
What was the name of the test conducted by African American sociologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark that was instrumental in Brown v Board of Education?