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Taken place in the 1960s. This encompasses social movements in the United States whose goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the Constitution and federal law.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
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Following her wrongful death in Texas, #SayHerName was a hashtag is her remembrance.
Who is Sandra Bland?
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This African American leader said this quote "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man you take it"
Who is Malcolm X?
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First African American to be portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
100
This actor has received three Golden Globe awards, a Tony Award, and two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for the historical war drama film Glory and Best Actor for his role as a corrupt cop in the crime thriller Training Day.
Who is Denzel Washington?
200
In 1954, this was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
200
This African American male said "I Can't Breathe" while being detained by police officers.
Who is Eric Garner?
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This Black leader said this "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Who is Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ?
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She was the first African-American recipient of the Miss America title when she was crowned Miss America 1984.
Who is Vanessa Williams?
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Her big break came in 1991 when she was cast in the part of a college frosh on the television sitcom A Different World (1987). She made her feature film debut two years later in Menace II Society (1993). She did not gain widespread recognition, however, until her role opposite Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor(1996).
Who is Jada Pinkett Smith?
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This was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1 with the majority opinion written by Justice Henry Billings Brown and the dissent written by Justice John Marshall Harlan.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
The 44th President of the United States and his first name means "blessed" in Swahili.
Who is Barack Hussein Obama?
300
This black icon that said this quote ""I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest."
Who is Muhammad Ali?
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First African-American basketball player to play in the NBA All-Star Game.
Who is Don Barksdale?
300
African-American poet and author who is best known for her Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel, The Color Purple.
Who is Alice Walker?
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This was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law. It held that "a negro, whose ancestors were imported into [the U.S.], and sold as slaves", whether enslaved or free, could not be an American citizen and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court, and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States. Dred Scott, an enslaved man of "the negro African race" who had been taken by his owners to free states and territories, attempted to sue for his freedom.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
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This person was raised in a politically active family. His mother served Michigan House of Representative from 1979-1996. He was the youngest major of the city of Detroit.
Who is Kwame Kilpatrick?
400
Author of this quote "To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
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This was the first black woman to receive a B.A. degree in 1862 at Oberlin College.
Who is Mary Jane Patterson?
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In 1970, inspired by escalating violence and political unrest over the Vietnam War, this singer wrote the landmark song "What's Going On." The singers production style yielded several hits, including "Let's Get It On," "Sexual Healing" and "I Heard it Through the Grapevine."
Who is Marvin Gaye?
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This was a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
500
This 17 year old male was killed in 2012, while he was unarmed with a pack of skittles and a Arizona ice tea.
Who is Trayvon Martin?
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"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
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First African-American woman elected to a U.S. state senate: Democrat in Michigan.
Who is Cora Brown ?
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Had appearances in films such as Robin Hood: Men In Tights and Half Bakedin the mid-1990s. In 2003, this actor landed his own show on Comedy Central. He received two Emmy Award nominations for the wildly popular and controversial show, which frequently addressed race relations. In 2006, he abruptly quit the show and moved to a farm in Ohio.
Who is Dave Chappelle?