Historical Impact
The movement, beginning in 1955, was sparked by Rosa Parks’ arrest in Montgomery, Alabama.
What is Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This 2018 Marvel film became a global phenomenon for its portrayal of the fictional, high-tech African nation of Wakanda.
What is Black Panther?
In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of this national monument.
What is the Lincoln Memorial?
This Amendment gave Black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
The First Black Woman to Win a Grammy for Album of the Year.
Who is Lauryn Hill?
Between 1916 and 1970, six million African Americans moved from the rural South to the cities of the North and West. This was called...
What was the Great Migration?
This artist is known for the album "Ctrl".
Who is SZA?
This civil rights activist and NPU leader popularized the slogan "Black Power" in the mid-1960s.
Who was Stokely Carmichael?
This attorney worked on the Supreme Court case that a ruled segregated schools were unconstitutional .
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This Georgia-based leader and founder of Fair Fight Action is credited with a massive surge in voter registration in the 2020 elections.
Who is Stacey Abrams?
The group of Black pilots who served in World War II.
What is Tuskegee Airmen?
First passed in California in 2019, this legislation—whose name is an acronym for "Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair"—prohibits discrimination based on hair texture and protective hairstyles in workplaces and schools.
What is the CROWN Act?
The First Black Woman to become a billionaire entrepreneur in the United States.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
This Law made it illegal to deny housing based on race in 1968.
What is the Fair Housing Act?
Known as the "Godmother of the Civil Rights Movement," and was a key organizer of the March on Washington.
HINT: A key figure in NCNW
Who was Dorothy Height?
W.E.B. Du Bois helped found this organization in 1909.
Who is the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People?
This Black Director is known for films like Get Out and Us.
Who is Jordan Peele?
This national student-led organization was formed in 1960 to coordinate nonviolent protests during the Civil Rights Movement.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?
Signed into law in 2022 after over 100 years of failed attempts in Congress, this historic act made lynching a federal hate crime in the United States.
What is the Emmett Till Antilynching Act?
Kentanji Brown Jackson
This 18th-century self-taught mathematician and astronomer helped survey the original borders of Washington, D.C. HINT: There is a school in Atlanta named after him.
Who was Benjamin Banneker?
He was the first Black Man to perform by himself during the halftime show at a Super Bowl.
Who is Michael Jackson?
W.E.B. Du Bois used this term to describe the likelihood of one in ten Black men becoming leaders of their race through education.
What is the Talented Tenth?
This 1967 Supreme Court case struck down all state laws banning interracial marriage.
What is Loving v. Virginia?
This leader co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and famously told the 1964 Democratic National Convention that she was "sick and tired of being sick and tired."
Who was Fannie Lou Hamer?