Quotes
This 20th century civil rights icon and former black militant said, “We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being…by any means necessary”
Malcolm X
An event with 200,000 to 300,000 participants marched for African American Civil Rights on the state capital in 1963 ("I Have A Dream Speech")
The March on Washington
This artist is known for thriller, moonwalk, anti-gravity leen, and the spin
Michael Jackson
Lives That Matter
Black Lives Matter
This is the longest river in Africa
The Nile River
This prominent activist in American history said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A Supreme Court case that decided all segregated schools (in the south) were deemed illegal in 1954
Brown vs. Board of Education
This significant music genre consisted of Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, and Ella Fitzgerald
Jazz
N---P stands for which organization
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
This desert is in northern Africa
The Sahara Desert
This organizer and leader of the Black Panther Party said this famous quote “Black is beautiful”
Stokley Carmichael
A 14-year-old African American who’s lynching in 1955 for whistling at a white a woman sparked the Civil Rights Movement
Emmett Till
This music genre that came from the 1980s and the early 1990s consisted of Big Daddy Kane, Public Enemy, NWA, and Grand Master Flash
Rap/Hip-Hop
This logo is synonymous to this organization
Black Panther Party
This man who would later become the first democratically elected black President of South Africa was imprisoned for 27 years for protesting
Nelson Mandela “Madiba”
A conductor of the Underground Railroad said “I freed a thousand slave I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves” in the 19th century
Harriet Tubman
This march on the Edmund Pettus bridge in Alabama sparked nationwide controversy for the state troopers attacking civil rights demonstrators in 1965
Selma/Bloody Sunday
This Harlem Renaissance poet and writer wrote “A Dream Deferred” and "The Weary Blues”
Langston Hughes
This organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other Christian leaders helped played an important role in advancing American civil rights in the mid-20th century known as S - L -
(SCLC) Southern Christian Leadership Conference
A leader who was an influential monarch to the Zulu kingdom and a very power warrior who ruled in the early 19th century
Shaka Zulu
This former lawyer quotes “The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me” - she has risen to one of the faces of liberal politics
Michelle Obama
This event that consisted of nine African American students enrolling into a publicly segregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957
The Little Rock Nine
This former slave, novelist, abolitionist lecturer, and play wright is know for the play The Escape and for being the first African American to publish a novel in 1853
William Wells Brown
This image is associated with this organization
National Urban League
This wealthy West African Muslim-emperor who ruled over the Mali empire as the wealthiest man in world history
Mansa Musa