Making a Difference
He was was a largely self-educated mathematician, astronomer, compiler of almanacs and writer. ... A free black man who owned a farm near Baltimore.
Benjamin Banneker
Who is the person responsible for launching the Montgomery bus boycott, one of the pivotal events of the civil-rights movement?
Rosa Parks
Who was the lawyer who won the Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), which made segregation in public schools illegal?
Thurgood Marshall
Woolworth's Department stores in the South used to refuse to serve African Americans at their lunch counters. What was the name of the group of students who held the first sit-ins at Woolworth's to protest the store's segregationist policies?
The Little Rock Nine
Who was the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi?
James Meredith
She became a barnstormer, a pilot who traveled around the country using farmers' field for air shows.
Bessie Coleman
Who became the first African-American player to break Major League baseball's unwritten rule against hiring blacks?
Jackie Robinson
Who was the 14-year-old black boy who was brutally murdered by white racists in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman?
Emmett Till
The day before he was assassinated, what was Martin Luther King engaged in?
He was in Memphis supporting black garbage collectors who were on strike.
He evened opened a school for black children in his own home.
Prince Hall
She created a hot comb to press black children hair.
Madame C.J. Walker
Who were the three young civil-rights workers who were murdered in Mississippi while working to register black voters?
James E. Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner
A group of people who rode buses throughout the southern states.
Freedom Riders
He delivered a speech on Washington, entitled "I Have a Dream"
Martin Luther King
He is considered the father of Black History
W.E.B. DuBois
He fought the slave master for 2 hours and he became a free man.
Frederick Douglass
Which amendment freed the slaves...
13th amendment
She was six when she became the first African American child to integrate a white Southern elementary school. On November 14, 1960
Ruby Bridges
Woodland achieved a higher score after 5 years? What percentages did WMS achieve?
74.4 %
He is best known for "Back to Africa" movement, which encorage African American citizens to be independent, believe in their own self worth.
Marcus Garvey
She is a black American billionaire, who started a school in Africa using her own money.
Oprah Winfrey
Which amendment gave blacks the right to vote?
15th amendment
He was an American lawyer who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Thurgood Marshall
This amendment was to grant citizenship to “All persons born or naturalized in the United States,” thereby granting citizenship to former slaves.
14th amendment
She was the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president.
Shirley Chisholm