Black History Month
These are the colors of Black History Month.
What is Red, Black, Green?
A power construct of collected or merged difference that lives socially.
What is Race?
This person was the first African American Vice Principal and Principal of elementary schools in RCSD.
Who is Dr. Alice Young?
Name 2 US Landmarks built by Enslaved Black People.
What is the...
White House? US Capitol? Statue of Freedom? Wall Street? Faneuil Hall? Mount Vernon? Georgetown University? Fraunces Tavern? Harvard Law School? Trinity Church? University of North Carolina?
This is Ibram X. Kendi’s second published book, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2016.
What is Stamped from the Beginning?
The first African American woman elected to the House of Representatives.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Systems and structures that have procedures or processes that perpetuate racial injustice.
What is Systemic Racism?
This person was appointed as the first Black City Court Judge in Rochester in 1967.
Who is Judge Reuben Davis?
This person was the only known slave to work on the Statue of Freedom atop the US Capitol builiding.
Who is Philip Reid?
Any idea that suggests racial groups are equals in all their apparent differences – that there is nothing right or wrong with any racial group.
What is an Antiracist Idea?
A noted African American historian, scholar, educator, and publisher, this person is known as the Father of Black History.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
Race-based stress that comes from dealing with racial harassment, racial violence, or institutional racism.
What is Racial Trauma?
A lawyer, civil rights advocate, philosopher, and scholar who is credited with developing the theory of intersectionality.
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw?
For almost 30 years, "x" percentage of Fair Housing Act (FHA) loans were given to White borrowers.
What is 98%?
One who is expressing the racist idea that a racial group is culturally or behaviorally inferior and is supporting cultural or behavioral enrichment programs to develop that racial group.
What is an Assimilationist?
It’s been “x” amount of years since “Negro History Week” was expanded into Black History Month.
What is 45 years? (1976)
Understanding how aspects of a person’s social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege.
What is Intersectionality?
This person was the first Black coach to lead a team to the NCAA’s men basketball championship and first Black head coach to win a major collegiate basketball championship.
Who is John “Joe” Thompson?
A practice of interrogating race and racism in society that emerged in the legal academy and spread to other fields of scholarship. Seeking to critically examine the law as it intersects with issues of race, and to challenge mainstream liberal approaches to racial justice.
What is Critical Race Theory?
“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others.” This scholar termed double consciousness, which Kendi defined further as dueling consciousness.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
International speaker, author, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, this 20-year old from Buffalo, NY uses their plant-based, eco-friendly small business to educate and empower girls and women across the globe.
Who is Zandra Cunningham? (Zandra Beauty)
A field of science that studies changes in gene function that are heritable and that are not attributed to alterations of the DNA sequence.
What is Epigenetics?
American Civil Rights Activist who was the chief architect/organizer of the March on Washington in 1963.
Who is Bayard Rustin?
This is the earliest year with recorded protests against slavery.
What is 1688?
A scholarly father of Black liberation theology and author of Black Theology & Black Power and A Black Theology of Liberation.
Who is James Cone?