Slavery and the Civil War
Juneteenth marks the day in which the last American enslaved people were freed when the Union Army arrived to this state
What is Texas?
This document that typically ends wars was never drafted between the Union and the Confederacy
What are peace treaties?
This activist and educator founded Tuskegee University as a school dedicated to the education of Southern Black children
Who is Booker T Washington?
These airmen formed a battalion during World War II that served as air support for many American bombing runs
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
This group of students was stopped by the National Guard when trying to attend an integrated school in this city in Arkansas
What is Little Rock?
This country received the largest number of imported slaves during the history of the slave trade
What is Brazil?
This sect of politicians elected in 1868 advocated for total racial equality in the aftermath of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Who are the Radical Republicans?
The Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 struck this city in South Carolina
What is Charleston?
This term for the Black community in Tulsa demonstrates the success of the community and the racist motivations that drove the Tulsa race massacre
What is Black Wall Street?
This man wrote "The Letter from Birmingham Jail" after being arrested during Civil Rights protests
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
The Emancipation Proclamation was drafted after a major Union military victory at this battle
What is Antietam?
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
Madam C.J. Walker, one of the first Black female philanthropists, made her fortune in this industry
What is the beauty and makeup industry?
The name for the group of informal Black advisors that Franklin D. Roosevelt maintained during his Presidency
What is the Black Cabinet?
This historian wrote the article "The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past"
Who is Jacquelyn Dowd Hall?
The Great Dismal Swamp, a maroon community infiltrated by George Washington, was located between which two states
What are Virginia and North Carolina?
Andrew Johnson was notoriously opposed to this amendment that gave African Americans citizenship and equal protection under the law
What is the 14th amendment?
What are minstrel shows?
This supply route was mostly manned by Black U.S. soldiers during World War II that moved supplies from Normandy to mainland Europe
What is the Red Ball Express?
The Bordentown School, that struggled over whether to integrate or not, was in this state
What is New Jersey?
These Union camps (specific name) for escaped enslaved people were finally allowed under the Confiscation Acts when Lincoln saw the moral and strategic necessity to center slavery in the fighting of the Civil War
What are Contraband Camps?
The Battle of Liberty Place, one of the first in the "Southern Civil War" took place in this city
What is New Orleans?
These contests, a part of the Eugenics movement, helped solidify the idea that genetics deemed moral and social superiority in American society
What are Family Fitter contests?
Samuel Battle was the first African American in this organization in New York City
What is the NYPD?
This young woman was actually the first Black woman to refuse to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus
Who is Claudette Colvin?