Civil Rights
This movement spearheaded change for Black Americans in the 1960s and was lead by influential people such as Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This document freed slaves during the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This former-NBA star was a main character in Space Jam.
Who is Michael Jordan?
This female artist performs the viral 2020 song "Savage."
Who is Megan Thee Stallion?
This cultural event started in the 1920s in Harlem, New York City, and was an enormous celebration of Black culture, including the development of jazz and blues music.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This woman helped spearhead the Montgomery Bus Boycott when she refused to give up her bus seat for a white passenger.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This president was in office during the Civil War, and had freed slave Frederick Douglass as an advisor when he made the decision to abolish slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This is the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the modern era.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This woman was one of the most well-known conductors of the Underground Railroad and led many slaves to freedom before slavery was abolished.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This man was well-known for his contributions to jazz and was an incredible musician who played the trumpet.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This man was a very influential leader during the Black Empowerment Movement that occurred alongside the Civil Rights Movement, but he disagreed with nonviolence and said that the Black community should work towards equality "by any means necessary."
Who is Malcolm X?
This man was a freed slave who was not only an advisor to President Lincoln, but was also a renowned activist known for his antislavery writings.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This president served during the 2008 and 2012 terms.
Who is Barack Obama?
This poet was known for her work "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", and was a powerful civil rights activist during the 2000s.
Who is Maya Angelou?
This is the Queen of Jazz.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
This Baptist reverend was known for his work during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and was most famous for his "I Have a Dream" speech.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
This Amendment gave African American males the right to vote.
A. First Amendment
B. Third Amendment
C. One Hundred Thirty Fifth Amendment
D. Fifteenth Amendment
What is the Fifteenth Amendment? (D)
This famous actor passed away recently and was considered by some to be a hero.
Who is Chadwick Boseman?
This is the poet who wrote the collection of poems "Brown Girl Dreaming" that we read in class earlier this year.
Who is Jacqueline Woodson?
This woman was the Queen of Soul and sang the famous song "Respect."
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This African American-founded Party was created in the 1960s as a means to protect African Americans against brutality and to support Black nationalism. They were specifically against non-violent means of self-defense (they were armed).
What is the Black Panther Party?
This woman was a WHITE author and abolitionist during the nineteenth century, most famous for her work "Uncle Tom's Cabin," where she clearly points out the wrongness of slavery at the time.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Both of these famous rappers had beef with each other during the 90s, and both were tragically killed by gunshot wounds. (Name both rappers)
Who were 2Pac (Tupac Shakur) and The Notorious B.I.G.?
Who was Sojourner Truth?
What is blues?