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What group of students was famous for challenging school segregation in the deep South? Little Rock Nine; The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); The Black Panthers
Little Rock Nine
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Who was the 14-year-old black boy who was brutally murdered by white racists in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman? Emmett Till; Crispus Attucks; Dred Scott
Emmett Till
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Originally called the New Negro Movement, this was a literary and intellectual flowering that fostered a new black cultural identity in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Harlem Renaissance
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He was the first doctor to successfully perform open heart surgery, to help open first non-segregated hospital in the US, and to open the first nursing school for African American women. George Washington Carver; Countee Cullen; Daniel Hale Williams
Daniel Hale Williams
100
"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."
Maya Angelou
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Who is the person responsible for launching the Montgomery bus boycott, one of the pivotal events of the civil-rights movement? Stokely Carmichael; Rosa Parks; Shirley Chisholm
Rosa Parks
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Who became the first African-American player to break Major League baseball's unwritten rule against hiring blacks? Satchel Paige; Jackie Robinson; Willie Mays
Jackie Robinson
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Between 1920 and 1930, almost 750,000 African Americans left the South, and many of them migrated to urban areas in the North to take advantage of the prosperity—and the more racially tolerant environment. What is this unpresidented movement of people called?
The Great Migration
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He was an agricultural chemist who gained acclaim for his discovery of alternative farming methods. Best known for his discovery of uses for the peanut. Among the products he developed from peanuts were soap, face powder, mayonnaise, shampoo, metal polish, and adhesives—but he did not invent peanut butter. George Orwell; George Washington Carver; Madam C.J. Walker
George Washington Carver
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"Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can." Malcolm X; Authur Ashe; or Reggie Jackson
Authur Ashe
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Who was the lawyer who won the Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), which made segregation in public schools illegal? Roy Wilkins; Ralph Abernathy; Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall
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Who were the "Freedom Riders?" Student groups who rode on buses throughout the South in order to integrate interstate transportation; This was a name for civil rights marchers; Members of the KKK who attack civil rights activists.
Student groups who rode on buses throughout the South in order to integrate interstate transportation.
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This holiday was created by Dr. Maulana "Ron" Karenga, a professor of Black Studies in 1966, a time of great social change for African Americans. This celebration honors the values of ancient African cultures and was intended to inspire African Americans who were working for progress. It is based on 7 principles believed to have been key to building strong, productive families and communities in Africa.
Kwanzaa
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He invented the hair straighten cream, the Gas Mask, and the 3 position traffic light. Morgan Freeman; Garrett A. Morgan; or Charles Drew
Garrett A. Morgan
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"You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man." Frederick Douglass; W.E.B. DuBois; Langston Hughes
Frederick Douglass
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Woolworth's Department stores in the South used to refuse to serve African Americans at their lunch counters. What was the name of the group of students who held the first sit-ins at Woolworth's to protest the store's segregationist policies? The Greensboro Four; The Scottsboro Boys; The Little Rock Nine
The Greensboro Four
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Who were the three young civil-rights workers who were murdered in Mississippi while working to register black voters? James E. Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner; The Scottsboro Boys; Edgar Ray Killen, James Earl Ray, and Byron De La Beckwith
James E. Chaney, 21; Andrew Goodman, 21; and Michael Schwerner, 24, On June 21, 1964, the bodies of three civil-rights workers—two white, one black—were found murdered murdered near Philadelphia, in Nashoba County, Mississippi. They had been working to register black voters in Mississippi. The three young men were arrested by the police on trumped-up speeding charges, jailed for several hours, and then released after dark into the hands of the Ku Klux Klan, who murdered them. Their murders outraged the country and much of the world, and helped build support for the civil rights movement.
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This federal holiday observed on the third Monday in January honors which civil rights leader?
Dr. Marting Luther King, Jr.
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He invented the Blood Bank. Charles Drew W.E.B. DuBois Weldon B. Johnson
Charles Drew
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"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" James Earl Jones; Zora Neal Hurston; Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
500
Who was the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi? James Meredith; Jesse Jackson; W.E.B. DuBois
James Meredith
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The day before he was assassinated, what was Martin Luther King engaged in? He was in Montgomery supporting a bus boycott; He was in Memphis supporting black garbage collectors who were on strike; He attended the March on Washington.
On the eve of a protest march for striking garbage workers in Memphis, Tenn., King gave a darkly prescient speech in which he said "…I've been to the mountaintop. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land.
500
Attended by some 250,000 people in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963, it was the largest demonstration for jobs and freedom ever seen in the nation's capital, and one of the first to have extensive television coverage.
March on Washington
500
Internationally acclaimed neurosurgeon best known for separating conjoined twins. He was the first black person accepted into the residency program at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
Dr. Benjamin Carson
500
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." Oprah Winfrey Booker T. Washington Paul Robeson
Booker T. Washington