Firsts
The first African American Major League Baseball player
These rights were obtained by African Americans through the ratification of the 15th Amendment in 1870.
What are voting rights?
The main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This was the year in which the first black president was elected.
What is 2008?
This person signed the Emancipation Act.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The first "sit-in" at a segregated lunch counter was held here.
Where is Greensboro, North Carolina?
This person's refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, Alabama buses from 1955-1956.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The year that the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, in turn abolishing slavery.
What is 1865?
This person became the first African American female billionaire in 2004.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
The first African American owned-and-operated newspaper.
What is Freedom's Journal?
In 1960, four African American college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate this store's lunch counter.
What is Woolworth's?
This person was elected chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1966.
Who is Stokely Carmichael?
The Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This person shot Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968.
Who is James Earl Ray?
The first African American Nobel Prize Peace Winner.
Who is Ralph Bunche?
The racially motivated attack on a church that caused the death of four girls in Alabama.
What is the Alabama Church Bombing?
The name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
The year that interracial marriage was overturned.
What is 1967?
The highest number of slaves in the United States at a certain point.
The first African American to serve as a U.S. Senator.
Who is Hiram Revels?
The start and finish points for the 54 mile, 3 part protest marches that took place in 1965. Hint: The march is known by a specific name, which happens to be the starting point.
What is Selma to Montgomery?
This person was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Who is Malcom X?
The year in which the Black Panther Party was created.
What is 1966?
The first African American female to win an academy award.
Who is Hattie McDaniel?