Civil Rights
Bonus Point: What was his number?
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Bonus Point: Where did he say this?
I am a woman from a poor and abused upbringing, who is now one of the longest standing talk show hosts in history and received the presidential medal of freedom
“People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
I was born a slave, but later became an abolitionist speaker and author. I am considered the most important black American leader in the 19th century.
hint: he was a trumpeter
I was a rapper in the 90s who was influential in the African American community by embodying "gangsta-rap" and by becoming one of the top selling artists of all time. My murder is also still unsolved.
Bonus Point: Who is their sister?
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
I was a minister, human rights activist, prominent black nationalist leader and spokesman for the nation of Islam in the 50s and 60s. I am best known for fighting racism "by any means necessary"
Which American track-and-field athlete won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games and also defied Adolf Hitler’s vision of Aryan supremacy?
Bonus Point: What was the movie?
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
I overcame scarlet fever and polio as a child to become the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field at a single Olympics in 1956.