BLACK HISTORY 101
This person was given the nickname, "Moses."
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This star was used by slaves to help find their way to the North towards Freedom.
What is the North Star?
This was the Supreme Court case that ended legal segregation in public schools.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka?
This was in 1954 only 67 years ago
This is the time you had to be home by as a kid.
What is when the street lights came on?
This 16 year old was sent to Rikers Island where he was held without trial between 2010 - 2013 for allegedly stealing a book bag. He was in solitary confinement for two years. Prosecutors eventually dropped charges bess than 2 years later he committed suicide from the mental strain of incarceration.
Who is Kalief Browder?
This person, the child of ex-slaves, developed a hair product and died a millionaire.
Who is Madame C.J. Walker?
This is what NAACP stands for.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
This is the sign that you know its "Clean the House Day".
What is music blasting on the speakers?
These teenagers were coerced into admitting they assaulted a jogger in Manhattan 1989. They served 6-12 years in prison and were later exonerated.
Who is Central Park Five?
*Exonerated 5 is also an acceptable response
These childhood toys were used in an experiment by psychologists to determine young child (even Black Children) preferred lighter skin to darker skin.
What are dolls?
This woman's cells were cultured without consent by Johns Hopkins University in order to create the basis of stem cell research.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
This what your mom says she is not.
What is one of your little friends?
Under this man's FBI direction Dr. King was wiretapped and black mailed about indiscretions related to his marriage in order to deter him from his cause. Once this was publicly revealed a judge order all tapes to be sealed until 2027.
Who is J. Edgar Hoover?
The use of coded or suggestive language in political messaging to garner support from a particular group without provoking opposition.
What is the Dog Whistle Politics?
This study conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service told impoverished sharecroppers they would receive free health care in exchange for studying the natural history of syphilis. Instead even after funding for treatment was loss the study was continued without informing them they were not being treated even after penicillin became widely available.
What is Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
What is Counter Intelligence Program?
The modifying of one’s speech, behavior, appearance, etc. to adapt to different sociocultural norms.
What is code-switching?
This person, the chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party was shot and killed at the age of 21 laying in the bed next to his pregnant fiancee.
Who was Fred Hampton?
The 13th amendment states: neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, shall exist in the states except for
What is punishment for a crime?
This party instituted the Free Breakfast for Children Programs to address food injustice, and community health clinics for education and treatment of diseases. At it's inception in 1966 the core practice of the party was to cop watch to challenge against police brutality.
What is Black Panther Party?