MLK Day
What Day do we celebrate MLK Day?
January 15th or 3rd Monday in January
Where was Edna denied service?
a diner called Katz
Where did Alexander Clark Live
Muscatine, Iowa
Iowa had stops on the underground railroad
True or False
True
Who is a positive Black influential person in your life
up to you
What is the first sentence in MLK's famous speech
I have a dream
What times of activism did Edna Griffen organize
Boycotts and Protests
Why did Alexander sue the Muscatine school board?
So his daughter could go to school in their neighborhood
What was so special about Buxton, Iowa
It was a coal mining town where there was equity and equality
Who was the first black president of the US
Barak Obama
No
What did Katz do in response to Edna Griffen?
Desegregate the restaurant
What did Alexander Clarke's son do
He was the first AA to graduate from Iowa's law school
Where did AA soldiers train for World War 1
Fort Des Moines
What month is black history month
February
How many SYMBOLIC years ago did the Emancipation Proclamation get signed during the speech?
5 years
Where is the Edna Griffen Building?
Downtown Des Moines/ Where Katz was located
How many years before Brown vs Board of Education did Iowa integrate schools?
86 Years
Where did George Washington Carver go to College?
ISU and Simpson
Who was the first Black Female to be Vice President
Kamala Harris
What was Martin Luther Kings Dream
equality, end to racism, fairness for POC's, end of discrimination
Did Jim Crow Laws help or hurt POC?
Hurt
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow"
Did Alexander keep the money he made as a recruiter for the military
No he gave it to his recruits
Who was the first black female Mayor in Iowa
Bonus: What City did she reside over
Lametta Wynn
Clinton, Iowa
what year was the Exclusionary Act signed
Bonus if you can tell me what it did
1851
Free POC's could not "settle" in the state of Iowa unless they had $20