North Florida History
What is the name of Florida's oldest private HBCU in Florida?
Edward Waters University
What education tests were administered at poll locations to prevent many Black Americans from voting?
Literacy Tests
What is the name of a common household oil used as a laxative, or for the "quarterly clean-out"?
Castor Oil
What Black mayor transformed Atlanta into a major economic and political hub?
Maynard Jackson
What is the name for the Black community side of TikTok?
BlackTok
What is the original name for Florida Agricultural Mechanical University
The State Normal College for Colored Students
What is the name of the discriminatory practice where banks would deny loans and services to Black communities by marking neighborhoods as “high risk” on maps.
Redlining
This plant has gel inside its leaves that helps make burns feel better.
Who was the first black woman to graduate form Yale Law School, the first to join the New Your City Bar Association and the first to join the New York City Law Department
Jane Bolin
What term refers to switching language or behavior depending on social setting, especially in professional spaces?
Code-switching
What is the name of the oldest surviving African American neighborhoods in Florida, this community became a hub of business and culture after the Civil War.
Frenchtown
What is the name of the process by which wealthier residents move into historically Black neighborhoods, raising costs and displacing longtime residents.
gentrification
Enslaved people and early healers used this pungent bulb for its natural ability to fight infection and protect against illness.
garlic
What is the name of the African American civil rights activist who is best known for punching Dallas County, Alabama Sheriff Jim Clark in the face during the 1965 Selma to Montgomery Marches
Annie Lee Wilkerson Cooper
What hashtag helped bring attention to police brutality and racial injustice in the 2010s?
#BlackLivesMatter
Opened in 1901 in Jacksonville, what was the name of Florida’s first Black hospital.
Brewster Hospital
What is the name of the practice of manipulating electoral district boundaries to weaken Black political power.
Gerrymandering
What is the name of a strong-smelling liquid from pine trees was used externally to treat infections, parasites, or skin issues
Turpentine
What philosopher introduced the concept of “double consciousness” to describe the Black American experience?
WEB Dubois
What phrase is used when someone’s success feels relatable or representative of the community?
"We love to see it"
Built before the Civil War and now part of local Black history tours, this is considered Florida’s oldest surviving bank building and later housed the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company.
What is the Union Bank Museum?
What is the Supreme Court case that said it was okay to keep Black and white people separated, as long as things were said to be “equal”?
Plessy vs Ferguson
Instead of having sutures, enslaved people would sometimes use this naturally lattice structure to stop bleeding from cuts and wounds?
Cobwebs
What is the name of the formerly enslaved man famously commandeered a Confederate ship and sailed it to freedom during the Civil War.
Robert Smalls
The most common hand movement that goes with “clock it” is:
Putting the index and thumb together. Then repeatedly tapping them together.