Famous Quotes
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods?
Who was the NAACP’s first field secretary in the South.
Who is Medgar Evers?
What act gave black people the right to vote?
What is the Voting rights act 1870?
Who is the richest man in the world?
Who is Mansa Musa?
Who said, "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise, I rise."?
Who is Maya Angelou?
Who was known as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records?
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
Who coined the term Black Power?
Who is Stockley Carmichael?
First African American to serve as U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
What is the significance in the "X" in Malcom X's adopted name?
The lost black heritage.
Who said, “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Who was the first Black Woman to find a four year college, and created the Negro Cabinet?
Mary McLeod Bethune. Founded Bethune Cookman in Florida initially for young black girls and still stands as a HBCU today. The negro cabinet was a group of African-Americans who served as the public policy advisors for Franklin D Roosevelt during his term.
Who was apart SNCC, Freedom Summer voter registration, the Mississippi freedom Democratic Part, and sang during her activism?
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
What famous amendment was created due to the Emancipation Proclamation?
What is the 13th Amendment?
Who created "Negro History Week", which eventually led to Black History Month in 1926?
Who is Carter G. Watson? He is an African American historian, scholar, educator and publisher. It became a month-long celebration in 1976.
Who said, "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."
Who is Nelson Mandela?
What is the first historically black college?
What is Cheyney University of Pennyslvania?
Who was the creator of the first Black Studies class in the United States at Jackson State University, and wrote the book “Jubilee” which was copied by Alex Haley to write “Roots”?
Who is Margaret Walker?
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Who founded the National Association of Colored Women, advocated for Anti-Lynching Laws, investigated lynching in the south and documented her findings, founded the Negro Fellowship League, helped black women community building, and a huge advocate for the radical civil rights activism?
Who is Ida B. Wells?
Who said, "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."?
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Who was the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D in the United States?
Who is Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander? (first national president of DST)
What was the Mississippi State headquarters for modern Mississippi civil rights movement?
What is the Council of Federated Organizations(COFO)?
Who was the first African American ever elected to the U.S. Senate?
Who is Hiram Rhodes Revels? He represented the state of Mississippi from February 1870 to March 1871.
Name 5 writer during the Harlem Renaissance.
Bonus: Name 5 writing pieces during that time.