This Day in History
This amendment abolished slavery and was adopted by Congress in 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This state legislature required free blacks to choose between exile and enslavement in 1859.
What is Arkansas?
The Great Migration described a time when African Americans moved from one part of the country to another in order to find new opportunities. Where did they move?
What is from the south to the north?
This music is the originator the blues.
What is gospel music?
Who is Ruby Bridges?
Before it was known as Black History Month, Carter G. Woodson created this first celebration of Black History and named it what?
What was Negro History Week?
On Feb. 25, 1948, Martin Luther King was ordained as this kind of minister.
What is a Baptist minister?
What is New York?
This bill ended segregation in public spaces. It allowed people the right to eat, sit, live, and go to school everywhere. It was known as the Civil Rights Act/Bill. What year did this act pass Congress?
What is 1964?
This man's interest in nature, gardening, and planting helped him develop a life-long love of science and crop rotation to help farmers produce more vegetation.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This woman was born on February 4th, 1913. She was the catalyst for the Montgomery Bus Boycotts and the modern-day Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Rebecca Lee became the first black woman to receive an M.D. degree. What is an M.D.?
What is a medical degree?
This man was known as the Poet Laureate of the Harlem Renaissance and wrote poems such as "The Negro Speaks of Rivers, The Weary Blues, and I too"
Who is Langston Hughes?
The Black woman who was credited for creating the new sound that would become rock music.
Who is Sister Rosetta Tharpe?
This man was the Founder and First President of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, now known as Tuskegee University.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
She became the first African American woman to host a nationally syndicated talk show.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
This religious group held the first formal protest against slavery that was organized by a group of white people.
Who were the Germantown Quakers?
This musician was known for his skills on the piano and his involvement in the evolution of jazz music. His nickname came from his fine manners and the demeanor of a nobleman.
Who is Duke Ellington?
George G.M. James wrote a book where he proves the Greeks did not create/invent philosophy; the Egyptians did. What was the name of this book?
What is "The Stolen Legacy"?
What is 1863?
This man was released from a South African prison in 1990 after having spent 27 years in jail as a political prisoner.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
In 1909, the NAACP was founded and had its first meeting on the 100th Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. What does NAACP stand for?
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
This musician was arrested for shooting a gun off at a New Year's Eve celebration at the age of 11. He spent his 18-month sentence learning how to play bugle and cornet and eventually became a star performer in its brass band. He was known for playing the trumpet.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This woman was known as the first African American poet/author. She recalls the battle between white settlers and Native Americans in her poem, "The Bars Fight".
Who was Lucy Terry Prince?
This man was an escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker. He became a leader in the abolitionist movement and defender of women's rights to vote.
Who is Frederick Douglass?