Morning Announcements
She became the first African American woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
This person was the 44th president of the United States of America
Who is Barack Obama?
This movement began in 2013 to protest racial inequality in the US.
What is Black Lives Matter?
This groundbreaking baseball player's jersey number was 42.
Who is Jackie Robinson
This 381-day protest began in 1955 after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated city bus.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, this organization created free breakfast programs and health clinics while advocating against police brutality.
In 1960, at age 6, she became the first African American child to desegregate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
This US federal holiday commemorates the end of slavery.
What is Juneteenth?
This person lead slaves to freedom through the underground railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This was a secret network of routes, safe houses, and abolitionists that helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom in the northern US and Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This 1967 student protest in Philadelphia led to African American history being added to school lessons.
What is the 1967 Black Student Walkout?
Cassius Marcellius Clay Jr. was the birth name of this courageous boxer
Who is Mohammed Ali
This executive order was made by Abraham Lincoln to end slavery in the early 1860s.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This former 49er player is a pioneer and civil rights activist known to San Francisco
Who is Jerry Rice?
Where was the famous "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King held at?
Where is the Washington Monument in Washington DC?
This Air Force general became the first African American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Who is C.Q. Brown Jr?
This author wrote the famous poem "Still I Rise"
Who is Maya Angelou?
This movement in the 1960's had multiple events take place; such as, Brown v. Board of Education, the arrest of Rosa Parks, the murder of Emmett Till, and the desegregation of public schools.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This was the first woman of color to refuse to get off of the bus
Who is Claudete Colvin
This 1954 landmark Supreme Court case declared that "separate but equal" in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This 1969 Chicago alliance, led by Fred Hampton, united Black, Latino, and white working-class groups to fight poverty and inequality.
What is the Rainbow Coalition?
This person traveled throughout the US and Great Britain speaking out about the crime and terrorism of lynching during the 1890's
Who is Ida B Wells?
This movement took place in North Carolina, when 4 young african american college students sat at a "white only" lunch counter in a restaurant.
What is the Greensboro sit-in movement?
This famous young poet read "The Hill We Climb" at Biden's inauguration
Who is Amanda Gorman?
This movement refers to the time when slaves escaped from the South of the US to the North and Canada from 1910-1970.
What is The Great Migration?