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Institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the African-American community.
Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs)
A landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
Brown v Board of Education
An American lawyer and civil rights activist who was the court's first African-American justice
Thurgood Marshall
The first African American Major League Baseball player
Jackie Robinson
She wrote the bestselling memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
Maya Angelou
Also known as Freedom day, this is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States.
Juneteenth or Juneteenth Independence Day
Established in 1891, it is the largest among all HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) , and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in seven specialized engineering fields
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T)
She was the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Congress and the first African American woman to make a bid to be President of the United States when she ran for the Democratic nomination in 1972
Shirley Chisholm
civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
In 1960, four African American college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate this store's lunch counter
Woolworth's (The store was in downtown Greensboro, N.C.)
This person refused to give up a seat on the bus.
Who is Rosa Parks.
An annual guidebook for African-American roadtrippers. It was originated and published by New York City mailman Victor Hugo Green from 1936 to 1966, when open discrimination against non-whites was widespread, and African Americans faced a variety of dangers and inconveniences along the road, from refusal of food and lodging to arbitrary arrest.
Thomas Dorsey is considered the father of this genre of music
Gospel
This person's performance at the 1936 Summer
Olympic games made him famous.
Who is Jesse Owens.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This person was given the nickname, "Moses."
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
In November 2018, she made history as the first American to win a medal in every event at the World Gymnastics Championship.
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional
Freedom Riders
As an agricultural chemist, he discovered three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes
Dr. George Washington Carver
This person, was known as the "king of ragtime."
Who is Scott Joplin.
Which 1964 act declared that people must be treated fairly, no matter the color of their skin?
Civil Rights Act
The youngest poet to read at a presidential inauguration in United States history.[
Amanda Gorman
This person was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937-1949.
Who is Joe Lewis.
This person attended the University of California on a tennis scholarship.
Who is Arthur Ashe.
This person started a newspaper called "The
North Star."
Who is Frederick Douglas.
This person worked as a TV news reporter in Chicago after graduating from college.
Who is Oprah Winfrey.