Men
Who gave a speech called "I Have a Dream" at the National March on Washington in 1963?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
This woman made 19 separate trips to the US South to free other enslaved people, starting in 1850.
Harriet Tubman
A wave of civil unrest (some called it riots) followed the assassination of this Civil Rights leader in 1968.
Martin Luther King
The title of the historical fiction novel we are currently reading in class.
Finding Langston
Which United States President issued the Emancipation Proclamation, ending slavery in the United States?
Abraham Lincoln
Whose refusal to give up her bus seat on a segregated bus rallied the Black community and led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955?
What was the name given to the rules that oppressed Black Southerners, made it hard to vote, and kept them separate from whites?
Jim Crow Laws
Harlem Renaissance
Which Black activist's best-known words are "by any means necessary"? He was assassinated in 1965.
Malcolm X
What was the name of the six-year-old Black girl who attended an all-white school in Louisiana to challenge segregation in 1960?
Ruby Bridges
180,000 Black men fought in which war to end slavery in the United States? It started in 1861 and ended in 1865.
Civil War
The author of poems like "Hope" and "Calling Dreams"
Georgia Douglas Johnson
This man led a raid on Harper's Ferry in West Virginia, trying to spark a slave revolt that would lead to the end of slavery in 1859.
John Brown
Who was the first to refuse to give up her bus seat to a white person on a segregated bus in Montgomery Alabama?
Claudette Colvin
What is the name of the radical Black Liberation organization that spawned from the Civil Rights Movement? Assata Shakur, Fred Hampton, and Kwame Ture (fka Stokely Carmichael) were all members. They started a Free Breakfast program in Chicago in 1969.
The Black Panther Party
A Jamaican author who wrote poems like "If We Must Die" and "I Shall Return" during the Harlem Renaissance.
Claude McKay
What's the name of the first Black man to be elected to the United States Senate in 1870?
Hiram Revels
Who was the first Black person to run for President of the United States?
Shirley Chisholm, in 1972
Which Supreme Court Case said that "separate but equal" facilities for white people and Black people was constiutional?
The name given to a collection of poetry, short stories and / or essays.
Anthology