Black Wall Street(s)
This district of Tulsa was known as Black Wall Street
What is The Greenwood District?
The year Brown V. Board ended public school segregation
This city is where the African American Museum of History and Culture is located
What is Washington, D.C.?
This man is considered the Father of Black History
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
She was known as the first Black American female self-made millionaire
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
Black Wall Street had over this many Black Owned Businesses
What is 200?
This is the oldest HBCU
What is Cheyney University (the African Institute)
This University was established by Mary Mcleod Bethune in Daytona Beach, FL
What is Bethune-Cookman University?
This word is from Ghana, Africa and means,“Go Back and Get it” or “Learn From the Past”
What is Sankofa?
This event put an end to the Reconstruction hope of former slaves to get “40 acres and a Mule”
What is the death of Abraham Lincoln?
This is one District other than Tulsa that was also considered a “Black Wall Street”.
What is Jackson Ward OR Hayti OR Bronzeville OR Farish Street
This is the first Medical School established to Train Black Doctors
What is Meharry Medical College?
True OR False:
Between 5-7% of all enslaved Africans came to the US.
What is FALSE?
Only 3-5% of enslaved Africans came to the US
Black History Month was first celebrated in this year
What is 1976?
She was the first Black woman in the U.S. to establish a bank and serve as the president
Who is Maggie Lena Walker?
He is considered the founder of Black Wall Street in Tulsa.
O.W. Gurley
Edward Bouchet was the first African American to earn a doctorate degree. He graduated from this university.
What is Yale University?
This is the “scattering” of Black people from the Continent of Africa
What is the (African) Diaspora?
Preceding Black History Month, this was established this to acknowledge and celebrate the achievements of Black People
What is Negro History Week?
He graduated from an HBCU (Fisk University) and was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
The wealth of Black Americans is approximately this fraction of of White American wealth.
One-seventh
Located in Maryland, this was the home of the American Union School one of the earliest schools formerly enslaved Americans
What is Tolson’s Chapel?
After the United States, this country has the most Black people outside of Africa
What is Brazil?
These two dates are the reasons for February being Black History Month
What are February 12th (Abraham Lincoln) and February 14th (Frederick Douglass)?
This policy included a set of maps that identified Black neighborhoods as high risk and prevented Black people from getting loans to purchase homes
What is Redlining?