Important Dates
What is 1865?
This becomes the first African American to play Major League Baseball for the Dodgers in 1947.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on this transportation vehicle, setting in motion the year long protest of this form of transportation in Montgomery, Alabama.
What were the Montgomery Bus Boycotts?
This city/district is the location that Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous 'I Have A Dream' speech.
What is Washington D.C.?
The words represented by the acronym HBCU are...
What are Historically Black Colleges and Universities?
In this year, Barack Obama is elected President of the U.S., becoming the first Black person to hold office
What is 2008?
She is known as the first Black (and female) self-made millionaire for the creation of her hair growing product.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
This was the movement of approximately 6 million Black people from the southern United States to northern and western states between 1910s-70s.
What was the Great Migration?
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was established in 1966 at a local college in this city by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
What is Oakland, California?
This is the most decorated gymnast in history with 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship Medals.
Who is Simone Biles?
The Emancipation Proclamation, which declared all enslaved people in Rebellious/Confederate states free, this was issued by Abraham Lincoln in this year.
What is 1863?
This was the first African American to hold a seat on the United States Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This is the court case ended legal segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This is the nickname of Detroit, Michigan, is known for the popular record label of the same name, where popular artists like Stevie Wonder, the Supremes, Jackson 5, and more were signed.
What is/was Motown?
This was a cultural and intellectual revival of African-American art, music, literature, politics, theater and more in the 1920s-30s centered around Harlem, NY.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
This year played a key role in the Civil Rights Movement as the March on Washington occurred in August during this year.
What is 1963?
In 1992, this woman became the first Black woman to go to space on the space shuttle Endeavor.
Who is Mae Jemison?
A failed slave revolt in in 1831 led by an enslaved carpenter the revolt is named after, was responsible for the deaths of several white people. It was put down the next day by state militias and local mobs.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
The force of military pilots for WW2 were comprised of mainly Black men and they were trained and educated in this Alabama city.
What is Tuskegee, Alabama?
This was the name of the system of laws the enforced racial segregation in the United States.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Jesse One became the first person to win 4 gold medals in a single Olympics at this Olympic Game. He is also credited with "single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy" by beating his German long jump competitor.
What was the 1936 Summer Olympic Games?
This was the first Black woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress and the first Black person to seek nomination for President from one of the major U.S. political parties in 1972.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
The passage of this act by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 prohibited racial segregation and discrimination in public institutions as well as in voting and employment opportunities.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This city in Oklahoma, also known as Black Wall Street, was a city of great wealth, success, and economic prosperity for African Americans in the early 1900s, but was eventually burned down in a 1921 race riot.
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma?
This woman became the first black person to win an Oscar in 1940 for her supporting role in this classic film Gone With the Wind.
Who is Hattie McDaniel?