The History of Juneteenth
Juneteenth Flag
Juneteenth Jewels (People)
The Civil War
Miscellaneous Black History
100
The day Juneteenth is celebrated on each year.
What is June 19th?
100
The three colors on the Juneteenth flag.
What are red, white, and blue?
(The colors were meant to convey the message that all enslaved people and their descendants are American)
100
A Black American man who was a social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman, known for his autobiographies. Born a slave, he became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
100
The name of the official statement that declared the slaves in Confederate States free in 1863.
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
100
During the Reconstruction Era this system of racial segregation began to be passed into law in the Southern states.
What is Jim Crow Laws?
200
The event that Juneteenth marks.
What is the end of slavery?
(Specifically it marks the day in 1865 that the army announced in Galveston Bay, Texas that the slaves were free by executive decree)
200
The meaning of the date on the side of the flag.
What is it marks the date of the official end of slavery?
200
The black woman best known as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad. She led hundreds of enslaved people north through its routes and network of safe houses. Once the Civil War started in 1861, she also used her skills as a spy and expedition leader for the Union Army.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
The president that issued The Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is President Abraham Lincoln?
200
The landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
300
The original name for Juneteenth.
What is Jubilee Day?
(This name was used until the 1890s)
300
The meaning of the five-point star in the middle of the flag.
What is Texas (nicknamed the "Lone Star state"), the last state to receive the notice of the end of slavery?
300
A black man and American politician, born into slavery. He freed himself and 15 others during the Civil War by commandeering a transport ship, and sailing it from the Confederate-controlled waters to a Union-controlled enclave. He was later elected to the South Carolina Legislature and the United States House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era.
Who is Robert Smalls?
300
The year the Confederates surrendered, officially ending the Civil War.
What is 1865?
300
This agreement counted slaves as less than a full person in a state's census.
What is the 3/5 compromise?
400
Early celebrations of Juneteenth were often used as political rallies for black people and gave newly freed slaves instructions on how to do this.
What is vote?
400
The symbolism of the arc across the middle of the flag.
What is the new horizon of opportunity for Black people?
400
Susie King Taylor was born a slave and is the first and only African American woman to write a memoir about her experiences in the Civil War, when she was a...
What is nurse and teacher for black soldiers?
400
The percentage of the Union Army that was made up of black soldiers.
What is about 10%?
400
In 1865, this officially abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States, except as punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th amendment?
500
The year Juneteenth officially became a federal holiday.
What is 2021?
500
The year that activist Ben Haith (also known as "Boston Ben") designed the Juneteenth Flag.
What is 1997?
(The date was added in 2007)
500
Abraham Galloway was born a slave and during the Civil War he became a spy for the Union. After the war, he became one of the first black men to be...
What is elected to the North Carolina legislature (1868)?
500
The number of slaves officially freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is more than 3.5 million?
500
The percentage of the Continental Army made up by black soldiers in the Revolutionary War.
What is about 4%?