Historical Black Figures
After converting to Islam and promoting Black nationalism, he became a voice during the Civil Rights Movement. Unlike his counterparts, he urged African-Americans to defend themselves "by any means necessary."
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Who is Malcolm X?
What leading crusader against lynching founded the first black women's suffrage organization?
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Who is Ida B. Wells-Barnett?
Who was the first African-American president?
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Who is Barack Obama?
What United States Supreme Court ruling declares that school segregation is unconstitutional?
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What is Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka in 1954?
In 1966, in Bloomington IL, the police barred this Negro Santa Claus, who also served as president of Bloomington-Normal NAACP, from riding on the Float in the city's Christmas Parade. He still walked along the sidewalk wearing his Santa Claus outfit; greeting children, adults, and made national news featured in Jet Magazine.
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Who is Merlin Kennedy?
ho was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
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Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Who was the first Black Admiral in the United States Navy?
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Who is Samuel L. Gravely?
This six-year-old was the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South. Due to white backlash, she was escorted by four federal marshals to school every day and spent the year in a classroom all by herself.
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Who is Ruby Bridges?
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
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What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Who was responsible for starting Black History week?
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Who is Carter G. Woodson?
Outside of the rink, he was most known for his commitment to the Nation of Islam and his outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War.
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Who is MuhammadAli?
In 1965 who was elected as the first Black member of the National Academy of Sciences?
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Who is David H. Blackwell?
When and where was the NAACP founded?
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What is February 12, 1909, New York, NY?
This president signed the Martin Luther King Holiday into law in 1983, and it was first observed three years later.
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Who is Ronald Regan?
This church bombing killed four girls and was the third in Birmingham in 11 days after a federal order to integrate Alabama’s school system.
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What is the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing?
On October 3, 1904, a very determined young black woman, opened the Daytona Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls with $1.50, faith in God, and five little girls.
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Who is Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune?
Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
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Who is George Washington Carver?
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
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Who is Colin Powell?
What amendment to the constitution banned slavery?
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What is the 13thamendment?
Booker T. Washington was the founder and President of what educational institution?
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What is Tuskegee Institute?
Who was the first black U.S. Senator?
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Who is Hiram Rhodes Revels?
Name one of the mathematicians and engineers whose calculations for NASA were integral to several historic space missions, despite the segregation, discrimination, racism, and sexism they faced while working for NASA. They're often remembered as "Hidden Figures."
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Who is Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, or Dorothy Vaughan?
She became the first black woman to serve as a judge in the United States when she was sworn into the bench of the New York City Domestic Relations Court in 1939.
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Who is Jane M. Bolin?
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
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What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
The nation's first historically black college for women, founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 1881.
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What is Spelman College?