Civil Rights Leaders
This Civil Rights Leader gave a well-known speech titled "I have a dream."
Martin Luther King Jr.
This infamous case set the precedent for racial segregation with "separate but equal."
Plessy v. Ferguson
"By Any Means Necessary"
Malcolm X
This HBCU is close to the Maitland, FL office. Located in Daytona, FL
Bethune-Cookman University
A popular movie about slave history written by Alex Haley
"Roots"
This Civil Rights Leader was a black Muslim and decided to change his last name to a letter.
Malcolm X
This famous court case ruled that segregation in public schools are unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated."
Coretta Scott King
This HBCU is located in Washington D.C.
Howard University
This movie was about 3 Black women and their careers at NASA
"Hidden Figures"
This Civil Rights Leader refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama
Rosa Parks
This famous court case ruled that interacial marriage is constitutional and set the precedent for other states.
Loving v. Virginia
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
Frederick Douglass
This HBCU's mascot is a Jaguar.
Spelman College
A movie about an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery.
12 Years a Slave
This Civil Rights Leader wrote an empowering poem named "Still I Rise."
Maya Angelou
A case in which the court found that hotels did not have the right to discriminate against black guests
Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States
“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.”
Booker T. Washington
What was the first HBCU in the United States?
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
The extraordinary tale of a slave who transformed into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
Harriet - Harriet Tubman's Story
This Civil Rights Leader co-founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), who also was the first African American to graduate from Harvard University with a PhD.
W.E.B Dubois
This famous court case found the police in violation of the 4th Amendment that protects people from unreasonable searches/seizures due to the frisking of a Black American
Terry v. Ohio
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
Barack Obama
This is the only HBCU founded by a Black woman?
Voorhees College
*100 bonus points if you knew her name*
Elizabeth Evelyn Wright
This film tells the story of the five Black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted in New York in 1989
The Central Park Five