Black History/Local Black History
What constitutional amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States?
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What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
What does BLM Stand for?
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What is Black Lives Matter?
Who was known as the boy from Troy that got in "Good Trouble"?
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Who is the late U.S. Representative John Lewis?
She is the first African American female astronaut. In 1992, she flew into space aboard the Endeavour, becoming the first African American woman in space.
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Who is Mae Jemison?
In 1991, what became the first black-controlled company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange?
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What is BET?
She created her "OWN" network.
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Who is Oprah Winfrey?
How many African Americans have been U.S. Senators?
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What is Eleven?
First black woman kicked off of a bus during the civil rights movement...
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Who is Claudette Colvin?
Who performed the first successful open-heart surgery?
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Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
The artist who rapped this verse in one of his songs: "Last name ever, First name greatest, Like a sprained ankle boy I ain't nothing to play with Started off local but thanks to all the haters, I know G4 pilots on a first-name basis"
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Who is Drake?
An interracial American organization established by James Farmer in 1942 to improve race relations and end discriminatory policies through direct-action projects.
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What is Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)?
What was the first black college organized after the Civil War.
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What is Shaw University?
On February 1, 1960, four friends sat down at a lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. The four people were African-Americans, and they sat where African Americans weren't allowed to sit. They did this to take a stand against segregation.
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Who are the Greensboro Four?
An African American surgeon who pioneered methods of storing blood plasma for transfusions and organized the first large-scale blood bank in the U.S.
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Who is Dr. Charles Drew?
Cartoon created to pinpoint certain points in Dr. Martin LutherKing's Jr.'s life.
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What is Our Friend, Martin?
In the 1960s, Robert Gaston of Bloomington, IL opened up a barbershop and passed his legacy down to his son. What is his son’s name?
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Who is Gary Muhammad?
Organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
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What is Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
The first African-American woman elected to Congress in 1968.
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Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Invented the Super Soaker and is a former Air Force and NASA engineer.
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Who is Lonnie Johnson?
This blind singer is commonly referred to as the Genius of Soul.
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Who is Ray Charles?
As a young black girl, she did community work at the Bloomington, IL YMCA and volunteered in a segregated group of young girls known as Girls Reserves. She became the chairperson of the World Fellowship committee at the YWCA and they started the Hanging of the Greens program. They would pass out red stockings throughout the year to people to return at Christmas time, full of pennies... later she served on the Board of the Bloomington YWCA. A Civil Rights leader who fought to desegregate Twin City eateries. She attended Wayman AME Church. In 1999 she became the first Bloomington, IL recipient of the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award.
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Who is Caribel Washington?
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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What is the 15th Amendment?
Illinois Supreme Court announced this Mclean County Public Defender appointment as the first Black woman to serve as a Judge in the 11th Judicial Circuit Court.
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Who is Judge Carla Barnes?
A school that was founded for African-Americans in 1867 in Marion, Alabama. The school started as the Lincoln Normal School with $500 raised by nine freed slaves.
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Who are the Marion Nine?
This pro-athlete opened the I Promise Public School.
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Who is LeBron James?