DID YOU KNOW 1
Established to provide higher education opportunities for Black Americans. ___________________ was the first HBCU, established in 1837.
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
In March 1955, 15-year-old high school student _________ _________, was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before the bus boycott.
Claudette Colvin
On Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment was ratified, giving
African American men the right to vote.
was just 6 years old when she became the youngest Black child to desegregate a school in 1960
Ruby Bridges
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, did the first successful _____ ____ ______ that was performed in 1893
Open heart surgery
_______ became the first Black president of the United States in 2008.
Barack Obama
After graduating from Oberlin College in 1850 with a literary degree, _______ _______ became the first Black woman in America to earn a four-year college degree.
Lucy Stanton
Between 1525 and 1866, it’s estimated that ____ million Africans were shipped to the New World to be forced into slavery.
12.5
At the age of 33 _____ _____ _____ shipped himself from Virginia to Philadelphia so that he could be free!
Henry Box Brown
The first Black American to serve on the Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall
In July 1777, _________ became the first colony to ban slavery.
Vermont
Emancipation Proclamation took place in what year?
1863
In 1921, _______ _______ ______ was a thriving community of black businesses until the Tulsa race massacre occurred, destroying the community.
Black Wall Street
By Election Day 1920, the 15th amendment had been legal for 50 years, but many Black citizens still didn't exercise their right to vote out of fear of retribution. In ______ _______, those fears came true and this day ended as the most violent day in American election history.
Ocoee, Florida, on Nov. 2, 1920
created more than 500 new products from peanuts and sweet potatoes, including soap, paint and cooking oils.
George Washington Carver
This holiday was marked due to Galveston, Texas not given their freedom until June 19, 1865.
Juneteenth
4 traditional colors of BHM
Red, green, yellow, and black
first Black woman elected to Congress in 1968 and also the first woman to ever run for US president.
Shirley Chisholm
created the carbon filament inside the lightbulb that Edison is often credited with inventing.
Lewis Latimer
The first Black American to hold a patent was _______ who invented the process for dry cleaning fabric.
Thomas L. Jennings