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This continent is the birthplace of humanity and civilization.
What is Africa?
She is the first black woman billionaire. She owns her own TV studio, is admired all over the world, and has built two black schools in South Africa.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
In this war, the southern states of America fought to keep slavery. While the Union Army of the northern states fought to abolish slavery.
What is the Civil War?
Note: The Union Army won, and slavery was abolished!
Genocide refers to the killing a race of people (killing their spirit, their bodies, or their ability to thrive). Name one way that black people have been targeted for genocide.
What is ... ?
millions of Africans enslaved in America;
white terrorists lynching thousands of blacks without legal consequences to the perpetrators;
the systematic destruction of black property without legal consequences to the perpetrators;
preventing blacks from equal rights and protection under the law;
institutions restricting blacks from upward mobility or progress;
facilitating the flooding black communities with illegal drugs;
separate and unequal public institutions and practices
voter suppression and denying blacks the right to vote
True or False: Black history begins with slavery.
False. Black people have a history that goes back thousands of year before slavery. Black history includes a proud history of nation building civilizations, advanced academic institutions of learning, constitutional laws that honored humanity and nature, and a long line of kings and queens who were valued by the people they represented. Black history is grounded in African history!
A black man, Benjamin Banneker, was commissioned by the government to help layout design plans for this important place.
What is Washington, D.C.?
She was a leading crusader against lynching, an organizer for black women's voting rights, and a courageous newspaper editor.
Who is Ida B. Wells Barnett?
This amendment to the U. S. Constitution abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Note: It was passed on January 31, 1865.
In the 1920s, this was a period of exceptional creativity by Black American artists and writers that took place in Harlem, New York and across the American South--even spreading to Paris, France.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This human rights movement has many goals. It works to fight racism and to help make sure that Black people are treated fairly. It also works to help end violence against Black people. Recently, this movement organized protests in cities throughout the world to identify the need for justice and change.
What is Black Lives Matter (BLM)?
What is the continent of Africa?
She is one of the great queens of ancient Africa.
Who is ... ?
Queen Amina of Zaria Nigeria
Queen Candace of Ethiopia
Queen & Pharoah Hatshepsut of Egypt
Others: Makeda (Sheba), Nefertiti (Egypt), Ranavalona I (Madagascar), Cleopatra (Egypt), Nandi (Zulu kingdom)
Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus lead to this nonviolent action by her fellow citizens.
What is the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955?
What decision resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that no black-free or slave could be a US citizen?
What is the Dred Scott decision?
Within one year, America's 44th president, Barack Obama ended this American financial catastrophe with his bold and well-thought out financial planning.
What is the Great Recession of 2007-2009 (where millions lost jobs, homes, and savings)?
Nine African American students tried to attend this public school, but state troops would not let them. Finally, with the U.S. Army protection, them attended the school.
What is Little Rock Central High School (Arkansas)?
Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Note: He served from 1967 to 1991.
Booker T. Washington was the founder and president of this college for black and native Americans.
What is Tuskegee Institute (Alabama)?
Otherwise known as el Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, this impressive and courageous civil and human rights leader never gave in to threats. He said, "Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time." What is his more familiar name?
Who is Malcom X?
This congression act, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, made it illegal to discriminate against people in public places. It strengthened enforcement of voting rights, and it ordered the desegregation of public schools.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This is one of the 4 southern states that did not join the Confederacy in its fight to keep slavery.
What are Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland or Missouri?
The name of Marcus Garvey's shipping company that was owned and operated entirely by blacks.
What is the Black Star Line?
It is a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States that was used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada.
What is the underground railroad?
These are essential components of a democracy. They're guarantees of equal social opportunities and protection under the law, regardless of race, religion, or other characteristics. They include the right to vote, to a fair trial, to government services, and to a public education.
What are civil rights?
In this form of violence, a mob, under the pretext of administering justice without trial, executes a presumed offender, often after inflicting torture and corporal mutilation.
What is lynching?