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Black Lives Matter
Environmental Racism
Flint Water Crisis
Black History
Black Girls Rock!
100
The death of this young man began the BLM movement.
Who is Trayvon Martin?
100
This term is the placement of low-income or minority communities in proximity of environmentally hazardous or degraded environments, such as toxic waste, pollution and urban decay.
What is environmental racism?
100
The Flint Water Crisis is the result of this type of racism.
What is environmental racism?
100
President Abraham Lincoln signed this document in 1863, making slavery illegal.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
This television network airs the celebration of black women and their many contributions to society.
What is BET?
200
The year the movement began.
What is 2013?
200
This state's crisis is an example of environmental racism.
What is Michigan?
200
Children that were drinking from the Flint water are now suffering from this type of poisoning.
What is lead poisoning?
200
This man was named the first African American heavy weight champion in 1908.
Who is Jack Johnson?
200
This women is the founder of the organization Black Girls Rock!
Who is Beverly Bonds?
300
ALICIA GARZIA, PATRISSE CULLORS & OPAL TOMETI
Who are the creators of the BLM movement?
300
This term is a trend that describes the development of urban neighborhoods by the forced displacement of low income families out of neighborhoods, replaced by small businesses.
What is gentrification?
300
The Flint water crisis began as the state decided to save money by switching Flint's water supply from Lake Huron (which they were paying the city of Detroit for), to this river, a notorious tributary that runs through town known to locals for its filth.
What is the Flint River?
300
This woman was the first African American woman elected to the House of Representatives. She was elected in 1968 and represented the state of New York and was the first major party African-American candidate and the first female candidate for president of the United States
Who is Shirley Chisolm?
300
This women, at the age of 6, was the first black child to racially integrate an all-white elementary school in the South.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
400
This work done by Alicia Garzia was posted shortly after the shooting and killing of Travyon Martin, inspiring the black community to create change.
What is a love letter? (The BLM movement began as a love letter from to the black community from Alicia Garzia)
400
This person coined the term environmental justice.
Who is Sydney Howe?
400
This company was given a special hookup to clean water while the Children in Flint Were Given Poisoned Water to Drink.
What is General Motors? A few months after Governor Snyder removed Flint from the clean fresh water we had been drinking for decades, the brass from General Motors went to him and complained that the Flint River water was causing their car parts to corrode when being washed on the assembly line. The Governor was appalled to hear that GM property was being damaged, so he jumped through a number of hoops and quietly spent $440,000 to hook GM back up to the Lake Huron water, while keeping the rest of Flint on the Flint River water. Which means that while the children in Flint were drinking lead-filled water, there was one — and only one — address in Flint that got clean water: the GM factory.
400
In 1968, this man and the SCLC organized the "Poor People's Campaign" to address issues of economic justice, broadening the scope of the Civil Rights movement.
Who Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
400
Shortly after black college students organized a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, this woman set up a meeting with the young activists that culminated in the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960.
Who is Ella Baker?
500
THIS IS NOT A MOMENT, THIS IS A MOVEMENT
What is the motto of the movement?
500
One must prove this, to charge someone with environmental racism.
What is intent?
500
This is the type of law-suit brought against the city of Flint.
What is a class-action lawsuit?
500
This group organized the earliest recorded protest against slavery in 1688.
Who are the Quakers?
500
This sorority, founded in 1908, is dedicated to the empowerment and furthering of all women.
What is Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.