Black History Women
As a 6-year-old she entered an all-white school to be taught in a class with no other students in Little Rock, AR.
Ruby Bridges
He was the first Black male president
Barack Obama
The major theme of this football movie was about how Alexandria high schools integrated in the late 1960's and 1970's.
Remember the Titans
Slaves that the Spanish were taking to their colonies, ended up at Jamestown, Virginia in what year?
1619
As a form of protest, she refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, AL in 1955.
Rosa Parks
She is considered the greatest female tennis player of all time.
Serena Williams
First African American to play baseball in the MLB in 1947.
Jackie Robinson
These two educators created the first school for Blacks in Alexandria.
Mr. John Parker and Ms. Sarah Gray
Born into slavery, he escaped and became a leading abolitionist as he met with President Lincoln on several occasions.
Frederick Douglass
He was jailed and put into solitary confinement for eight day in 1963 in Birmingham, AL.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who helped over 300 slaves escape to freedom?
Harriet Tubman
A civil rights leader, Muslim minister and supporter of Black nationalism.
Malcolm X
Prior to the Civil War, what status were Blacks in Alexandria: Freemen, Slaves, Emanicipated, or all of the above?
All of the Above
He created Black History Month.
Carter Woodson
Thousands of Black children went to jail in Birmingham, AL in the summer of 1963 because....
It was a form of protest to get national attention.
Phillis Wheatley
He invented a traffic light and gas mask.
Garrett Morgan
Prior to the Civil War, how was the City of Alexandria rich?
From buying slaves from VA farms and moving them further South.
A graduate of Harvard College, he was a civil rights leader who helped create the NAACP.
W.E.B. DuBois
This Supreme Court case set the foundation to force schools to start integrating.
Brown v. Board of Education 1954
She was the first African American female in space.
Mae Jemison
He is referred to as the "Godfather of Soul" and the "Hardest working man in show-business".
James Brown
A graduate of Parker-Gray School in Alexandria, he was the first African American to play in an NBA game in 1950
Earl Lloyd
He was born into slavery, but after the civil war was a leading advocate for educating and developing skills of former slaves. He taught at Tuskegee University.
Booker T. Washington
What law was signed by President LBJ, shortly after President Kennedy's death.
Civil Rights Act of 1964