Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger (Dec.1). In response to her arrest Montgomery's black community launch a successful year-long bus boycott. Montgomery's buses are desegregated on Dec. 21, 1956.
When is 1955
100
In 1870 Hiram Revels becomes the first black senator of what state?
Where is Mississippi
100
What is the name of the nation’s first black college?
What is Lincoln University
100
Is the first African American elected to the office of United States President.
Who is Barack Obama
200
Who became a millionaire with her products and design of the hot comb for black hair?
Who is Madam CJ. Walker
200
The Harlem Renaissance flourishes in the 1920s and 1930s. This literary, artistic, and intellectual movement fosters a new black cultural identity.
When is 1920s
200
March on Washington on August 28, 1963. Attended by some 250,000 people, it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital, and one of the first to have extensive television coverage
Where is Washington
200
The first and only Black Catholic College in the United States, opened September 27, 1915
What is Xavier University
200
Becomes the first African American player in the MLB when he signs with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Who is Jackie Robinson
300
Invented a lubricator for steam engines
Who is Elijah J. McCoy
300
President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within the Confederate states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
When is 1863
300
In 1965 Bloody Sunday takes place when fifty protesters including Martin Luther King Jr. are attacked by police in
Where is Selma, Alabama
300
From what college did Martin Luther King Jr. graduate from?
What is Morehouse College
300
Who formed the National Negro Business League in 1900?
Who is Booker T. Washington
400
Invented Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer
Who is George Edward Alcorn
400
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans. declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional (May 17).
When is 1954
400
In 1966 Jesse Jackson heads Operation Breadbasket and forms an economic boycott in
Where is Chicago
400
in 1881?
Booker T. Washington created this institution in 1881
What is Tuskegee Institute
400
After Martin Luther King Junior’s death who succeeded him as the head of Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
Who is Ralph Abernathy
500
Invented Refrigeration systems
Who is Frederick McKinley Jones
500
Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Ala. He writes "Letter from Birmingham Jail," which advocated nonviolent civil disobedience.
When is 1963
500
In 1960 Four black students start a sit-in at a ________ lunch counter when they aren’t allowed service.
What is North Carolina
500
In 1881 Harriet E. Giles and Sophia B. Packard found this college for black females.