Activism
Co-founders of the Black Panther Party
What is Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale?
African American cultural movement that flourished in the 1920s
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Supreme Court case that unanimously ruled separating children on the basis of race was unconstitutional
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The original call to promote the study and celebration of Black people
What is Negro History Week?
Three women referred to as NASA’s “human computers”
What is Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson?
The slogan of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW)
What is “Lifting as we climb”?
An African American dancer, choreographer, and activist who founded their own dance theater and school in New York City
What is Alvin Ailey?
Founder of Bethune-Cookman University
What is Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune?
March from Selma to Montgomery to demand voting rights
What is Bloody Sunday?
African American inventor who patented an improved hairbrush design in 1898
What is Lyda Newman?
The first African American woman to refuse to sit at the back of the bus
What is Claudette Colvin?
A world-renowned poet and one of the foremost authors of the Black Arts Movement
What is Nikki Giovanni?
The first Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in the United States
What is Cheyney University of Pennsylvania?
The only all-Black, all-female unit to serve overseas in WWII
What is The Women’s Army Corps (WAC) 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion (The Six Triple Eight)?
First African American woman to receive a PhD in chemistry in the United States
What is Dr. Marie M. Daly?
Known as the First Lady of the Black Press
What is Ethel Lois Payne?
First Black artist to create the official, Smithsonian-commissioned portrait of a former First Lady
What is Amy Sherald?
First African American female president of the National Education Association
What is Mary Futrell?
A 1960s activism effort to increase Black voter registration in Mississippi
What is Freedom Summer or the Mississippi Summer Project?
Creator of the Global Positioning System (GPS)
What is Dr. Gladys West?
The first woman to be appointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights
What is Frankie Muse Freeman?
First woman to earn a PhD in piano performance and music literature
What is Geneva Southall?
Chicago Public Library System’s (CPL) first African American librarian
What is Vivian G. Harsh?
This statement was released in 1977 and coined the term “identity politics”
What is The Combahee River Collective Statement?
First African American woman appointed to the National Advisory General Medical Services Council
What is Geraldine Pittman Woods?