Geography
Origin of humanity and civilization
Africa
First African American President of U.S.
President Barak Obama
I have A Dream
Martin Luther King, Jr.
This baseball player played for Brooklynn in 1947
Jackie Robinson
Students who intergrated Little Rock High School
Little Rock Nine
Birthplace of MLK
Atlanta, GA
One of the founders of NAACP
Ida B. Wells
Who is CEO of O magazine
Oprah Winfrey
Place of black cultural explosion and Rennisance
Harlem
Refused to give up seat on bus
Rosa Parks
Founded in US 1909 for advancement of colored people
NAACP
Civil Rights protestors who protested segregated bus terminals
Freedom Riders
First black woman in congress
Shirley Chisholm
1964 Law that ended segregation in public places
Civil Rights Act
Lawyer who won several supreme court cases
Thurgood Marshall
Liberal Art College that is Historically Black
Xavier
College Freshmen who sat in at a whites only counter
Greensboro Four
First American woman to win three gold medals
Wilma Rudolph
Black Mathematician at NASA, who helped put some of the first people in space
Katherine Johnson
Zora Neale Hurston
Network of secret routes and safehouses, that lead North
The Underground Railroad
Enslaved black man who appealed the Supreme Court
Dred Scott
Black explorer or Louis and Clark Epedition
York
President Abe Lincoln freed slaves by
Emancipation Proclamation 1863
1965 Rights act to protect all Voters
Voting Rights Act