People
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Dates/Court Cases
Potpourri
100

Who was the leader of the Underground Railroad?

Harriet Tubman

100

First woman to serve on the Supreme Court?

Sandra Day O'Connor

100

When did all black women get the right to vote in the U.S.?

1965

100

What word is defined as “the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender”?

Intersectionality
200

First black vice president of the U.S.?

Kamala Harris

200

First African-American to graduate from law school, and the first to formally practice law in the U.S.?

Charlotte E. Ray

200

What court case established the principle of "separate but equal"?

Plessy v. Ferguson

200

What book was written by Alice Walker that recently received another movie adaptation?

The Color Purple

300

What activist gave the speech "Ain't I a Woman"?

Sojourner Truth

300

First black woman to graduate from Yale Law?

Jane Bolin

300

What Supreme Court case involved affirmative action?

Grutter v. Bollinger

300

What book was written by Zora Neale Hurston?

Their Eyes Were Watching God

400

First black Supreme Court Justice?

Ketanji Brown Jackson

400

First black graduate from Boston University Law School, and the first African-American woman elected to the Texas State Senate from 1967-1972?

Barbara Jordan

400

What Supreme Court Case made it so private businesses could not discriminate against race?

Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc v. United States

400

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Harriet Beecher Stowe