Handle Ya Business
Between what years are considered the golden age of African American entrepreneurship
1900-1930
These vegetables are eaten on the first day of January every year as a tradition for good luck.
Black Eyed Peas and Collard Greens
In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at this Washington, DC location
The Lincoln Memorial
This famous African American sociologist made this famous quote “The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
W.E.B. Du Bois
This woman invented sanitary napkins (belt), the walker and the toilet tissue holder.
Mary Davidson
He was the first African American to appear on Forbes Top 400 in 1982
John Johnson
This food can be eaten from the "rooter to the tooter."
What is a pig?
Rosa Parks's refusal to sit at the back of the bus sparked a city wide boycott in this US city
Montgomery, Alabama
Coretta Scott King said ___ was too great of a burden to bear
Hate
He perfected lens design for microscopes and ophthalmologic uses. He also developed mathematical models to explain gamma radiation.
Jesse Ernest Wilkins, Jr.
In this US City the first African American owned McDonald's was opened in 1982
Chicago
African green vegetable that goes great in gumbo and other stews.
What is okra?
This Supreme Court ruling said that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional?
Brown v. Board of Education
Frederick Douglas said "if there is no __, there is no progress"
Struggle
This African American inventor invented the gas mask and the traffic light
Garrett A. Morgan
She is known as the first African American woman millionaire
Madam C.J. Walker
Also known as Johnnycake, this type of cornbread is fried and was traditionally cooked with a shovel held to an open flame.
What is a hoecake?
What Constitutional amendment made slavery illegal?
13th
“A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.”
Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz)
After accidently slicing potatoes too thin, he created the potato chip.
George Crum
In 1869 Isaac Myers created this African American Labor Union
Colored National Labor Union
Bony, gelatin rich meat, usually slow-cooked as a stew or braised.
What are ox tails?
Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law in this year
1964
Finish this famous quote by actor Morgan Freeman “I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is _____.”
American History
He was held in such high regard, his inventions were called "the Real McCoy."
Elijah McCoy