African American Firsts
The first African American to serve as the United States Vice President
Who is Kamala Harris
"I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger"
Who is Harriet Tubman
Supreme Court case that decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
Refused to give up her seat on a public bus sparking a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956
Who is Rosa Parks
The first Black man to play in Major League Baseball
Who is Jackie Robinson
The first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State
Who is Colin Powell
"The time is always right to do what is right"
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
Supreme Court case that stated segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
Peaceful march by voting right activists that ended in violence when marchers refused to turn back
What is Selma to Montgomery march
Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for her novel, The Color Purple
Who is Alice Walker
An author who became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison
"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise"
Who is Maya Angelou
Supreme Court decision which decreed that public schools should be integrated
What is Brown v. Board of Education
Civil Rights Act that legally ended the segregation that had been institutionalized by Jim Crow laws
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
"The Godfather of Soul" and the "The Queen of Soul"
Who is James Brown and Aretha Franklin
The first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp
Who is Booker T. Washington
"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong"
Who is Muhammad Ali
Supreme Court decision that invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage
What is Loving v. Virginia
Voting Rights Act that granted Black women the right to vote (Hint: 45 years after the 19th Amendment was ratified granting women the right to vote.)
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products
Who is Madame CJ Walker
The year in which the first Africans were brought to America to work as slaves
What is 1619
"I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history"
Who is Morgan Freeman
Supreme Court case that dealt with the busing of students to promote integration of public schools
What is Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
Civil Rights Act defining housing discrimination as the “refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion, or national origin” (Hint: it coincided with the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.)
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1968 - or - What is the Fair Housing Act of 1968
Created over one hundred and forty-five products from peanuts and developed sixty products from pecans (Hint: He was one of the first African Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990)
Who is George Washington Carver