Miscellaneous
1800s facts and figures
Important Figures: Politicians and Activists
Important Figures: Science and Business
Important Figures: Entertainment and Sports
100
A person’s family background — the countries, cultures, and people their ancestors came from.
What is ancestry?
100
The system in which millions of Africans were forced onto ships and taken across the Atlantic Ocean to be enslaved in the Americas between the 1500s and 1800s.
What was the Atlantic (or Transatlantic) Slave Trade?
100
he became the first Black President of the United States in 2009.
Who is Barack Obama?
100
a scientist who developed new uses for crops like peanuts and helped farmers improve their soil.
Who was George Washington Carver?
100
a global pop music superstar whose songs and performances influenced pop culture around the world and spoke out and sung about healing the racial divide.
Who was Michael Jackson?
200
The forced separation of people based on race.
What is segregation?
200
The movement to end slavery.
What was the abolition movement?
200
a civil rights leader who used peaceful protests and powerful speeches to fight for equal rights for African Americans.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr?
200
a neurosurgeon who became well known for performing groundbreaking brain surgeries and later served in the U.S. government.
Who is Ben Carson?
200
broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947 becoming the first Black player in the modern era.
Who was Jackie Robinson?
300
declared that no one could be prevented from voting based on the color of their skin.
What is the 15th amendment?
300
an abolitionist who escaped slavery, a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, she risked her life to lead slaves to freedom in the North.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
300
helped spark the Civil Rights Movement when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955.
Who was Rosa Parks?
300
a NASA mathematician whose calculations helped send astronauts safely into space.
Who was Katherine Johnson?
300
a basketball player during segregation who won 11 NBA Championships and was a civil rights supporter who helped change professional sports.
Who was Bill Russell?
400
declared slavery illegal and abolished it within the USA.
What is the 13th amendment?
400
an American abolitionist, author, and orator who escaped slavery in Maryland at age 20 to become a leading voice for human rights.
Who was Frederick Douglas?
400
the first Black Supreme Court Justice and helped end school segregation through important court cases.
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
400
a successful businesswoman who became one of the first Black female millionaires by creating hair care products.
Who was Madam CJ Walker?
400
a famous jazz musician who helped make jazz popular around the world and became one of the first Black global celebrities.
Who was Louis Armstrong?
500
Declared all people born in the USA or naturalized were citizens of the USA and equally protected under the Constitution and laws.
What was the 14th amendment?
500
a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist, women's rights activist, and former slave who gave the famous "Ain't I a woman?" speech.
Who was Sojourner Truth?
500
a civil rights activist and the first Black child to attend an all-white school in the US South.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
500
the first Black female billionaire and the first Black woman to own and produce her own talk show.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
500
a renowned American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist best known for her 1969 autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Who was Maya Angelou?