He was the first black president
Who is Barack Obama
The famous speech Martin Luther King, Jr. gave
What is "I Have a Dream"
The movement that gave black people the freedoms/equality they fought for
What is the Civil Rights Movement
She was an escaped slave who helped free other enslaved people by using the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman
Another word for protesting by not buying or using something or not going to a certain place, etc.
What is boycott
This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation
Who is Abraham Lincoln
The ending of racial segregation
What is desegregation
She refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white person
Who is Rosa Parks
He was a minister and activist who became the biggest spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
He was the first African American to play Major League Baseball
Who is Jackie Robinson
He was an American educator and author who learned to write his name from the newspaper man when he was a kid and was a leader in the black community
Who is Booker T. Washington
He was an American social reformer, abolitionist, and writer who escaped from slavery in Maryland and became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York
Who is Frederick Douglas
A protest where the protesters occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met
What are sit-ins
He was an American minister and human rights activist who advocated for black supremacy
Who is Malcolm X
This was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States used by African-American slaves to escape with the help of abolitionists and allies
What is the Underground Railroad
This incident occurred when four members of the KKK killed four girls and injured 22 others on a Sunday
Answer what and where
What is the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama
She became a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field
Who is Wilma Rudolph
This document declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
She was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist who was born into slavery, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom
Who is Sojourner Truth
She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana
Who is Ruby Bridges