Famous Names
Name that Year
Why are they famous?
Supreme Court
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100
This person was arrested for refusing their seat on a bus in segregated Montgomery, Alabama as an act of protest.
Who was Rosa Parks?
100
This was the year the 14th Amendment was passed, after the American Civil War.
What is the year 1868?
100
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Who is the person that led a significant part of the Civil Rights Movement?
Who is the person that gave the "I Have A Dream" speech?
100
What is the Supreme Court?
One of the three branches of government and the highest court in the United States.
100
This Amendment freed the slaves. It reads, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, are subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
This person is the first black astronaut launched into space.
Who is Guion "Guy" Bluford?
200
This was the year that Jackie Robinson was the first Black person to play in a major league baseball game in the United States.
What is the year 1947?
200
Barack Obama
Who was the first Black president of the United States?
200
Brown vs. Board of Education
Which supreme court ruling ended segregation in American schools in 1954?
200
This is how Madame C.J. Walker made her fortune.
What is Madame C.J. Walker's hair porducts?
300
This surgeon performed the first successful heart operation without antibiotics or x-rays.
Who was Daniel Hale Williams?
300
This was the year Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, survivor and activist, dies of pneumonia at the age of 93.
What is the year 1913?
300
Malcolm X.
Who was a leader of the Civil Rights movement by "any means necessary" and a minister for the Nation of Islam?
300
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Which supreme court case ruled that separate but "equal" facilities are fair in 1896?
300
This flag is an ethnic flag representing Pan-Africanism, all peoples of African descent, and/or black nationalism.
What is the Pan-African flag or Afro-American Flag or Black Liberation Flag?
400
The murder of this person started the Boston Massacre and the American Revolutionary War.
Who was Crispus Attucks?
400
This was the year that Madame C.J. Walker dies as the richest woman in America.
What is the year 1919?
400
Kamala Harris
Who was the first Black and female Vice President of the United States?
400
Dredd Scott
Which supreme court case denied citizenship to African/Black Americans a few years before the American Civil War in 1857?
400
This flag celebrates this holiday.
What is the Juneteenth flag?
500
This person was one of the two first people to reach the North Pole in 1909.
Who was Matthew Henson?
500
The year Mae Jemison, the first Black female astronaut in space, was aboard the "Endeavor."
What is the year 1992?
500
Nelson Mandela
Who was the first native African president of South Africa and who helped end apartheid?
500
This person was the first Black person to be sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice in 1967.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
500
This holiday in June celebrates the day when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War. This holiday celebrates the independence of all slaves.
What is Juneteenth?