Name That Person
She was the first black principal dancer at American Ballet Theater.
Who is Misty Copeland?
While playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson wore this number on his jersey.
What is 42?
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that."
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
She made her fortune by developing and marketing a line of cosmetics and hair care products for black women through the business she founded.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
The protestors who rode busses across state lines in the south were known as this.
Who are the freedom riders?
She participated in the 1969 Stonewall riots.
Who is Marsha P. Johnson?
On March 2,1955 she was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to white woman nine months before Rosa Parks did.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Who is Langston Hughes?
Kehinde Wiley is most know for painting the portrait of this person.
Who is Barack Obama?
The US Supreme Court ruling that desegregated schools.
What is Brown v. The Board of Education
This writer and and civil rights activist had an acccident as a child that left her blind in one eye.
Who is Alice Walker?
The 369th infantry who served in WWI were known as this.
Who are the Harlem Hellfighters?
“You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man”
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
This Alice Walker novel was made into a movie in in 1985 that starred Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey.
What is "The Color Purple?"
This Nation of Islam leader was assassinated on February 21, 1965.
Who is Malcolm X?
After escaping from slavery he had a career as a powerful orator and a leader in the abolitionist movement.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
What is the slogan for Misty Copeland's ad campaign for Under Armour?
I Will What I Want
“The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
Who is Rosa Parks?
During WWII she served as spy for the French Resistance.
Who is Josephine Baker?
Along with Huey Newton this person created the Black Panthers.
Who is Bobby Seale?
He was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This was the name that Josephine Baker gave to her adopted children.
The Rainbow Tribe.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Who is Alice Walker?
Two members of the Harlem Hellfighters were awarded the Croix de Guerre from what European nation.
What is France?
The name of the store where the first lunch counter sit-in took place on February 1,1960.
What is Woolworths?