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Who created peanuts?
What is George Washington Carter
Who was the first Black president?
What is Barack Obama
What civil rights activist is famous for his "I Have A Dream" speech?
What is Martin Luther King Jr.
What black person is known for her/his refusal to give up their seat on the bus due to race?
What is Rosa Parks
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
Who said it?
What is Frederick Douglass
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Who said it?
What is Martin Luther King Jr.
Who was a famous writer and civil rights activist?
What is Maya Angelou
Who was the first Black person in the major baseball league?
What is Jackie Robinson
What era did black literature and music rule?
What is Harlem Renaissance
What year was Black History Month celebrated for the first time?
What is 1976
"If not us, then who? If not now then when?"
Who said it?
What is John Lewis
What group launched the Freedom Rides in 1961?
What is CORE-Congress of Racial Equality
Juneteeth, which became an official federal holiday in 2021, commemorates what?
What is the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the U.S
Memebers of what labor union helped to build the nation's black middle class and civil rights movement?
What is Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters?
Who was elected chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1966?
What is Stokely Carmichael
"Characters, not circumstances, makes the person."
Who said it?
What is Booker T. Washington
In 1968, Who became the first black woman elected into Congress?
What is Shirley Chisholm
Who was the first Black woman to travel in space?
What is Mae Carol Jemison
In addition to his influential campaigns to become president of the United States, in 1984 and 1988, the Rev.Jesse L. Jackson is known for his leadership roles with civil rights organizations? (Choose one)
What is Southern Christian Leadership
What is People United to Save Humanity (Operation PUSH)
What is Rainbow Coalition
In 1960, four African American college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate what store's lunch counter?
What is Woolworth's in downtown Greensboro, N.C.
"As I give, I get."
Who said it?
What is Mary McLeod Bethune
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
Who said it?
What is Duke Ellington
Who was the first black woman to be a principal dancer in the American Ballet Theater?
What is Misty Copeland
What influential authors became the first African American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
What is Toni Morrison
Before he was elected president of the United States, Barack Obama served as U.S senator of which Midwestern state?
What is Illinois