The Movement
She was often referred to as the “The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement.”
Who is Odetta Holmes?
This HBCU was founded in 1870 in Columbia, South Carolina.
What is Benedict College?
More than 46,000 rallied at the state capital in Columbia to protest this __________ on January 17, 2000.
What is the Confederate battle flag?
This holiday commemorates the anniversary of the arrival of the news of freedom for slaves in Texas.
What is Juneteenth?
Juneteenth recognized when Union soldiers arrived in this Texas town to announce slavery had been abolished.
What is Galveston?
This man was an educator who participated in the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Freedom Riders, the NAACP, and community service in his hometown of Sumter, South Carolina.
Who is James T. McCain?
This HBCU was first called Atlanta Baptist College.
What is Morehouse College?
Double Jeopardy: These students started the “sit-in” movement on February 1, 1960.
Who are The NC A&T Four?
Tommie Smith and John Carlos were suspended from the US Olympic team for their _______ salute during the playing of the national anthem.
What is Black Power?
This proclamation promised freedom to slaves who fought for the British during the American Revolution.
What is Dunmore’s Proclamation?
The Friendship Nine staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Rock Hill, South Carolina in 1961 and followed the ______ strategy.
What is "Jail, No Bail"?
This university is ranked third in the nation in graduating minorities with a Doctor of Education degree.
What is SC State University?
The brutal blinding of Isaac Woodard Jr by South Carolina police led this President to issue an executive order which desegregated the military.
Who is Harry Truman?
The AME Church was organized to _____ against the racial discrimination at white Methodist congregations.
What is Protest?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed that Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of ________ was “the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom.”
What is Nonviolence?
He is known as the 'Dean of the Civil Rights Movement'.
Who is Benjamin E Mays?
Founded in 1869, this university is the oldest historically black university in South Carolina.
What is Claflin University?
This person was born into slavery and was a leader of the Haitian Revolution in the 1790s.
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
After he was denied a book from the white-only library, twenty Black students entered Greenville library to attempt to use it.
Who is Jesse Jackson?
Katherine Johnson was an African American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of NASA's _______ missions.
What is Apollo?
NAACP leader, __________ wrote the lyrics for "Lift Every Voice and Sing," the Black National Anthem.
Who is James Weldon Johnson?
These two Historically Black Colleges and Universities are located across the street from each other in Columbia, South Carolina.
What are Allen and Benedict?
From May 1944 to October 1945, they were stationed at Walterboro Army Airfield, South Carolina.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
Elizabeth Freeman (or Mum Bett) was the first enslaved African American to file and win a freedom suit in this state?
What is Massachusetts?
The lines: “Let it be the dream it used to be / Let it be the pioneer on the plain / Seeking a home where he himself is free / (America never was America to me)” are included in “Let America Be America Again” and was published by what author?
Who is Langston Hughes?