Civil Rights Movement
This event happened during the 1950's and 1960's.
What is the Civil Rights movement?
This man was the first elected African-American governor of a state; he served from 1990 to 1994.
Who is Douglas Wilder?
She sat in the front of the bus causing a boycott and a change in equality laws.
Who is Rosa Parks?
After escaping slavery in Maryland, he pushed for equality and human rights during the Civil War and Reconstruction until he died in 1895.
Who is Fredrick Douglas?
She saved many slaves during the 1800's as the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
On August 28th, 1963, 250,000 people did this walk for freedom, which ended at the Lincoln Memorial.
What is the March on Washington?
This person was elected Senator for Mississippi on February 25, 1870.
Who is Hiram Rhode Revels?
Who created the poem,"What happens to a dream deferred"?
Who is Langston Hughes?
This person wrote the famous "I have a dream" speech
Who is Dr.Martin Luther King Jr?
This man starred in The Wiz with Michael Jackson and Diana Ross and is widely considered to be the first black comedian.
Who is Nipsey Russell?
This civil rights act was used to help protect voter rights.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1957?
This woman helped to stop the segregation of black and white kids in public schools when she became the first African-American child at the all-white William Frantz Elementary school in 1960.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
This person was assassinated by the nation of Islam.
Who is Malcolm X?
This organization was created to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons.
What is the NAACP?
This person wrote the poem "The Weary Blues"
Who is Langston Hughes?
President Harry Truman issued Executive Order 9981 to end segregation in this.
What are the armed forces?
This person was the first black supreme court judge.
who is Thurgood Marshall?
One of this person's famous works was called ,"Their eyes were watching god"
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This man led an effective slave revolt in Virginia in 1831.
Who is Nat Turner?
Who was the president that fought for slaves rights during the Civil War?
Who was President Abraham Lincoln?
On March,7,1965 around 600 civil rights marchers walk to Selma, Alabama to Montgomery—the state’s capital—in protest of black voter suppression.
what is the Selma to Montgomery March?
This person is the First black Congresswoman.
Who is Shirley Anita Chisholm?
This person wrote the poem "If we must die" and was published in 1919 during a period of intense racial violence.
Who is Claude McKay
This is the name of the race riots that occurred in more than three dozen cities in the United States during the summer and early autumn of 1919.
What is Red Summer?
He moved to Harlem in the mid-1920s and became one of the early innovators of orchestral jazz, which is a fusion of jazz’s rhythmic and instrumental characteristics with the scale and structure of an orchestra.
Who is Duke Ellington?