Civil Rights
An African American woman who played a pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
Rosa Parks
Who established a school for Dance as havens for nurturing Black artists and expressing the universality of the African-American experience through dance.
Alvin Ailey
What Supreme court case made it unconstitutional for schools to be segregated?
Brown v. Board of Education.
Who was the first African American to enter Major League Baseball?
Jackie Robinson
"I have a Dream..."
Martin Luther King Jr
A Political Party for Self-Defense, was a Marxist-Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students in Oakland, California.
The Black Panther Party
Through his poetry, novels, plays, essays, and children's books, he promoted equality, condemned racism and injustice, and celebrated African American culture, humor, and spirituality.
Langston Hughes
Laws that denied African Americans the right to vote, own property, get an education, and other rights and privileges associated with citizenship.
Jim Crow Laws.
group of primarily African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II.
Tuskegee Airmen
"you show me a capitalist and I'll show you a bloodsucker"
Malcom X
South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
Nelson Mandela.
The First African American to attend a predominately white institution for college.
W.E.B DuBois.
a set of laws, policies, guidelines, and administrative practices that ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color or national origin.” The order also established the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, which oversaw issues policy and coordination with the U.S. Department of Labor.
Affirmative Action.
an African American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. He was one of the most prominent black scientists of the early 20th century
George Washington Carver
"If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be"
Maya Angelou
seven Black and six white activists–mounted a Greyhound bus in Washington, D.C., embarking on a bus tour of the American south to protest segregated bus terminals.
Freedom Riders
Who is considered the Father of Jazz?
Louis Armstrong.
Who was the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress
Shirley Chisolm.
First female to travel to space.
Mae Jemison.
"I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong"
Frederick Douglass
In the early twentieth century, civil rights activist Marcus Garvey pushed for?
Resettling all American blacks in Africa
First African American woman to become a millionaire by selling hair products.
Madam CJ Walker
Who was the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall.
was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.
Jesse Owens
"I am the people, I'm not the pig"
Fred Hampton (Chairman of Chicago chapter of Black Panther Party.)