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This political leader gave the famous "I Have a Dream Speech" and was a prominent leader in the civil rights movement.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
This political movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country.
What is the Civil Rights Movement
This landmark supreme court case overturned the "separate but equal" policy established in the Plessy vs. Ferguson case. Specifically in public schools.
What is Brown vs. The Board of Education
At the end of the 20th century, this woman was listed as both the most influential woman and the most influential black person of her generation, and in a cover story profile the magazine called her "America's most powerful woman"
Who is Oprah Winfrey
This woman is the first ever female Vice President.
Who is Kamala Harris
This black political leader was a vocal advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the Black community.
Who is Malcolm X
This era (1861 to 1900), the historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems, was a time of significant transformation within the United States.
What is the Reconstruction Era
This supreme court case deemed laws that banned interracial marriage are unconstitutional.
What is Loving vs. Virginia
This female artist holds the most Grammy wins of all time with 32 total Grammy wins as of 2023.
Who is Beyoncé
By refusing to give up her bus seat this woman is historically reported for starting the civil rights movement.
Who is Rosa Parks
This amendment to the constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment
This movement is a decentralized political and social movement that seeks to highlight racism, discrimination, and racial inequality experienced by black people, and promote anti-racism. Its primary concerns are incidents of police brutality and racially motivated violence against black people.
What is the Black Lives Matter Movement
This Supreme Court case in 1962 resulted in prohibiting the racial segregation of interstate and intrastate transportation
What is BAILEY VS. PATTERSON
This male artist is known as The King of Pop.
Who is Michael Jackson
The underground rail-rode was a collection of safe routes and homes to help run away slaves make it to the North. This woman made 13 missions to rescue around 70 enslaved people.
Who is Harriet Tubman
This amendment's first section includes several clauses: the Citizenship Clause, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause.
What is the 14th Amendment
This movement was a branch or counterculture within the civil rights movement of the United States, reacting against its more moderate, mainstream, or incremental tendencies and motivated by a desire for safety and self-sufficiency that was not available inside redlined African American neighborhoods.
What is the Black Power Movement
This 1968 Supreme Court case overturned a previous 1967 ruling in which it was stated that there was no federal regulation of private racial discrimination. The court declared that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 barred all racial discrimination, whether public or private, even by private individuals selling their homes.
What is Jones vs. Mayer Co.
This West Coast rapper helped establish the west coast sound with the landmark album Straight Outta Compton, which he wrote most of the lyrics for.
Who is Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Sr.)
This woman is the first black woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson
This woman famously gave the Ain't I a Woman? speech at the Women's Rights Convention in 1851.
Which sought to connect the women's suffrage movement and the abolition movement.
Who is Sojourner Truth
This movement started in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. Led by Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel, Fred Shuttlesworth and others, the campaign of nonviolent direct action culminated in widely publicized confrontations between young black students and white civic authorities, and eventually led the municipal government to change the city's discrimination laws.
What is the Birmingham Movement
This supreme court case made racial based housing covenants unconstitutional and prevented states from enforcing them.
What is Shelly vs. Kraemer
This male artist is tied for the most Grammy nominations with 88 nominations. Of which he has won 24 Grammy Awards.
Who is Jay-Z
This woman was the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress.
Shirley (Fighting Shirley) Chisholm