important figures
The first African American president of the United States
Who is Barack Obama.
The action of separating something or someone apart from the other
What is segregation
A southern style of cooking that blends African and European cooking, very popular in New Orleans.
Think fried chicken, Mac n cheese, collard greens?
What is soul food
What was MLK’s famous quote That began his speech at Washington’s march for jobs and freedom on august 28, 1963
What is “I have a dream”
Prejudice, discrimination, fear, hatred, or antagonism of any people or person due to there skin color, race, or ethnicity
What is racism?
Known as “the mother of the civil rights movement“
this person was arrested for refusing to move the back of a bus
Who was Rosa Parks
The act of a white man painting his face black and acting as an exaggerated unrealistic depiction of an African american.
What’s is blackface
(racism is also an excepted answer)
The anthem for the 1992 Los Angeles social Justus riots creating by N.W.A
What is F tha Police
a series of tunnels, safe houses, and anti slavery activists used for freeing enslaved people.
What is the Underground Railroad
public execution via hanging performed by a group or mob of people to a person who has not received any due process for an alleged crime to intimidate others.
What is lynching
A baptist minister and political activist who was assassinated by James Earl Ray for his views on racial justice.
Who was Martin Luther king?
A distorted, exaggerated imitation of African Americans thats name was later used to refer to the era of the southern united states during Racial segregation
what is Jim Crow
The first African American player in the mlb
Who was Jackie Robinson
the day when that the us government ensured the regulation of the emancipation proclamation
What is Juneteenth
An extremist white supremacist group founded in 1865 during the reconstruction era often called Americas first terrorist group
What is the “ ku klux klan“
An American abolitionist and social activist who freed over 70 enslaved people through a series of hidden trails and tunnels after escaping slavery herself
Who was Harriet Tubman?
A term used to celebrate the achievements and contributions of Black individuals and communities
What is Black Excellence
A frog voiced New Orleans born trumpeter, and singer who revolutionized jazz music, most know for the song
what a wonderful world
Who was louie Armstrong
The Loving v. Virginia trial legalized what?
What is interracial marriage
An African American man who was asphyxiated and murder by white police officers on may 25, 2020 after allegedly using a false 20 bill at “cup foods” grocery store
his dying words “ I can’t breath” became the slogan for the largest civil rights protest in american history
Who was George Floyd
A muslim minister and human rights activist from Omaha Nebraska who Was assassinated on February 21st, 1965
Who was Malcom X?
What does BIPOC stand for
What is Black, Indigenou, And People of Color
An adaptation of jazz and blues that stems from plantation work songs, its name come from small dancing events called “rags”
What is ragtime?
8000 people marched over a five day span for African American voting rights from which two towns
What is Selma to Montgomery
A 14 year old boy who was tortured, murdered and thrown into a river for ”insulting a white women”, when in reality he only whistled at the female store clerk while leaving a grocery store
Who was emmet till