African American First
A federal holiday in the United States commemorating the emancipation of African-American slaves on June 19th.
What is Juneteenth?
He said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.".
Who is Morgan Freeman?
This African American was elected president of the United States in 2008.
Who is Barack Obama?
This racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama.
What is the Alabama Church Bombing?
This person made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990.
Who is George Washington Carver?
The first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?
He said "The time is always right to do what is right".
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
This Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
The name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr..
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
This civil rights activist that became the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
The first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.
Who is Tiger Woods?
She said, "I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger".
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
A civil rights activist whose refusal to give up their seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
The first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
She said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.".
Who is Maya Angelou?
This Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal". Also known as "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
He was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Who is Malcolm X?
She became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
This author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye").
Who is Toni Morrison?
This famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.".
Who is Muhammad Ali?
She was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President in the 1972 Presidential Election.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
He was a major leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
He was a fourteen year old black boy that was lynched for whistling at a white woman.
Who is Emmet Till?