Women
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The face of the Civil Rights Movement and author of the famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
This state capital is where the legendary Brown v. Board reached its conclusion.
Where is Topeka, Kansas?
The rule that Plessy V. Ferguson established.
What is established the term "separate but equal'?
The monumental first that Barack Obama achieved in 2008.
What is he became the first black president of the United States?
One of the most renound poets, known for her beautiful prose and focus on her experience as a young black woman.
Who is Maya Angelou?
Who is Malcolm X?
The city (and state) of the 16th Street Baptist Church that was bombed in response to the growing Civil Rights Movement.
Where is Birmingham, Alabama?
The law that Brown v. Board ended.
What is segregation in public schools?
The march that Lynda Blackmon Lowery embarked on in 1965 from Selma to Montgomery.
What is the Voting Rights March?
The first black woman elected to congress and later the first black woman to be placed on a presidential ballot?
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
A Harlem Renaissance leader and author of Not Without Laughter. Known for establishing a new literary form of jazz poetry.
Whois Langston Hughes?
The ending place of the monumental March on Washington and where thousands heard about a man and his dream.
What is the Lincoln Memorial?
What the 13th Amendment abolished.
What is slavery?
President Abraham Lincoln declared Southern slaves free with this proclamation in 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
A leader of the Harlem Renissance, this writer focused much of her writing on black women, breaking literary norms.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This man was a founding member of SNCC and the SCLC and initiated the Children's Crusade in Birmingham.
Who is Reverend James Bevel?
The city in which Lynda Blackmon Lowery and many others experienced what became known as "Bloody Sunday."
Where is Selma, Alabama?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited this.
What is the discrimination of peoples based on race, color, or natural origin?
The name of the boycott that Rosa Parks instigated in 1955 by refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
An all around activist, this political force fought against injustice at every step. Most known her Marxist and prison abolitionitionist beliefs.
Who is Angela Davis?
The foil to Booker T. Washington, this prominent leader owned a newspaper, and frequented the likes of high American society. He was the first black Harvard PhD graduate and wrote the famous Souls of Black Folk.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
In 1960, students protested segregation by sitting at this inside Woolworths convivence store.
What is a lunch counter?
The 15th Amendment did this.
What is prohibited the denial of voting rights based on race, color, or previous enslavement?
The nickname of the nine black students who integrated into Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957.
What is the Little Rock Nine?