Quotes
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
First Black child to desegregate an all-White elementary school in Louisiana.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
Nat Turner led a four-day rebellion of both enslaved and free individuals on August 21, _______ in Virginia.
What is 1831?
These were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This movement was a decades-long effort to end legalized racial discrimination in the United States. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, and Malcolm X were a few of the Black activist known for supporting this movement.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Known to be one of the greatest professional American golfers.
Who is Tiger Wood?
Gwendoly Brooks was the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize on May 1st, _______?
What is 1950?
These laws were set in place after the Civil War in order to restrict Black individuals' freedom and force them to work for low wages.
What are Black Codes/Black Laws?
This was a movement organized in the early 1960s to bring attention to the integration efforts of Blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. Black protestors were attacked with water hoses and dogs.
What is the Birmingham Campaign/Birmingham Movement?
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
This American historian was one of the first scholars to study African American history.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
Wilma Rudolph won three gold medals during the ______ Olympics.
What is 1960's?
This racist organization was discovered in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee as a private club for Confederate veterans?
What is the Ku Klux Klan/KKK?
This was a political and social protest campaign against the policies of racial segregation on the public transit systems of Montgomery, Alabama.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.
Who is Beyonce?
This Black author's writings portrayed the racial struggles of Blacks in the early 20th Century.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
Kamala Harris became a junior US senator of California in ________.
What is 2017?
In the 1930s, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and the Home Owners' Loan Corporation created maps with marked areas considered to be bad risks for mortgages or loans, especially within Black neighborhoods were known as _______.
What is Red-Lining?
This was an act committed by White supremacists when they bombed a Baptist church killing four little Black girls on Sunday, September 15, 1963.
What is the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing?
We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
Who is Barack Obama?
This individual was the first Black and Native American to receive recognition and fame as a sculptor.
Who is Edmonia Lewis?
Joe Louis is considered to be one of the best heavyweight boxers from ______ to _______.
What is 1937 to 1949?
Segregation existed between ______ through _____.
What is 1849 through 1950?
Also known as the Mississippi Summer Project, was a cause to help increase the number of registered Black voters in Mississippi by fighting against voter intimidation and discrimination at the polls.
What is the Freedom Summer?