People
The first Black president of the United States
Who is Barack Obama?
Professional boxer who advocated for Black rights
Who is Muhammad Ali?
The war that decided the fate of slavery in the United States?
What is the Civil War?
This form of music started in the Bronx (New York) around 1973
What is hip-hop?
This term expresses that people around the world of African-descent are united to make progress together
What is Pan-Africanism?
Civil Rights leader who emphasized Black pride and self-defense
Who is Malcolm X?
The first woman of African-American and Native American descent to hold a pilot license
Who is Bessie Coleman?
A movement where African Americans refused to ride on public buses?
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
A key poet during the Harlem Renaissance
Who is Langston Hughes?
What is reading?
Founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, promoting Pan-Africanism
Who is Marcus Garvey?
Demonstration conducted by African-American athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, after winning gold and bronze medals. Each athlete raised a Black-gloved fist and kept them raised until the National Anthem finished.
What is the 1968 Olympics Black Power Fist?
A holiday celebrating the ending of slavery
What is Juneteenth?
Enslaved Africans blended their West/Central African traditions to create this type of food
What is soul food?
This person argued that African Americans should be able to access higher education
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
A scientist and inventor who revolutionized farming, famously example researching peanuts
Who is George Washington Carver?
The most decorated gymnast of all time
Who is Simone Biles?
A law passed in 1964 that banned segregation
What is the Voting Rights Act?
This genre of music originated in the deep South and influenced rock and jazz
What is Blues music?
This massive movement of Black Americans from the South reshaped cities in the North
What is the Great Migration?
The first Black woman astronaut
Who is Mae Jemison?
This scientist made major advancements in blood banking/storage
Who is Charles Drew?
This speech by Abraham Lincoln pronounced that slaves in Confederate states were freed, during the civil war in 1863
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This Black anthropologist studied folklore
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This practice involves banks drawing lines on maps and deciding which areas Black people could and could not live
What is redlining?