Individuals #1
I am a leading national organizer in the slavery abolitionist movement, and there is a park named after me in Champaign.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
I am an influential Pan-Africanist and socialist who cofounded the NAACP and wrote The Souls of Black Folk and Black Reconstruction in America.
Who is W.E.B Du Bois?
This network existed throughout the United States and Canada to aid Black people in escaping chattel slavery.
What is the Underground Railroad?
"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now."
This is the year Ryan Coogler's hit film Sinners was released in theaters.
What is 2025?
I am a prominent slavery abolitionist, Underground Railroad conductor, spy, and women's rights activist.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
I am a slavery abolitionist and writer who published my influential autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in 1961.
Who is Harriet Jacobs?
This political party organized for socialism and Black Power across the US during the 1960s and early 70s.
Who is the Black Panther Party?
"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."
Who is Audre Lorde?
This is the year Michelle Alexander's book The New Jim Crow was published
What is 2010?
I am a Black revolutionary leader in the 1950s and 60s calling for Black Power. Many believe the US government was behind my assassination in 1965.
Who is Malcolm X?
I am a prominent socialist and feminist political organizer and author. I was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA. I have been active in the Occupy movement and BDS campaign.
Who is Angela Davis?
This term refers to the period of US history directly following the Civil War when Black people wielded considerable political power and enacted many progressive reforms.
What is Reconstruction?
"I knew I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government..."
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
This is the first year of the general strike by millions of enslaved people who walked off plantations during the US Civil War.
What is 1861?
I am an organizer, author, speaker, and founder of the #MeToo movement in 2006.
Who is Tarana Burke?
In the 1930s I organized a movement to defend the Scottsboro boys in Alabama and founded the Black Belt Thesis - the idea that Black people in the US are an oppressed nation with the right of self-determination.
Who is Harry Haywood?
This was a Boston-based Black feminist lesbian organization during the 1970s who pioneered intersectional theory.
Who is the Combahee River Collective?
Who is Megan Thee Stallion?
This is the year of Nat Turner's Rebellion, when enslaved Black people in Virginia rose up against their slave masters.
What is 1831?
I am an influential investigative journalist, sociologist, educator, and organizer. I co-founded the NAACP. I dedicated my life to combating racist and sexist violence and promoting racial and gender equality.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
I am a revolutionary organizer with the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army who escaped from prison in 1979 and received asylum in Cuba.
Who is Assata Shakur?
This group organizes and empowers Black and Latino workers in Jackson, Mississippi to build worker organized and owned cooperatives.
What is Cooperation Jackson?
"If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it."
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This is the year that the majority-Black neighborhood of Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis, rose up against structural racism and police brutality. For many, it ignited a new era of political consciousness.
What is 2014?