Black Women in History
A journalist and educator who fought against racism, lynching and sexism. She was also a founder of the NAACP.
Ida B. Wells
An enslaved black man who unsuccessfully appealed to the supreme court for his freedom in 1857.
Dred Scott
1964 law which ended segregation in public places.
Civil Rights Act
A novelist and editor at Princeton University. She wrote Beloved, Tar Baby, The Bluest Eye.
Toni Morrison
The birthplace of humanity and Civilization.
AFRICA
A mathematician at NASA who's calculations were critical for manned spaceflight.
Katherine Johnson
North Carolina College Freshmen who sat at a whites only lunch counter to protest segregation.
The Greensboro 4
Abe Lincoln issued the ________ ________ to free millions of enslaved people in 1863.
Emancipation Proclamation
Poet, novelist, quote maker, civil rights activist.
Writer of: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Maya Angelou
Civil Rights organization founded in 1909.
NAACP
Media executive, philanthropist and actress as well as North America's first black multi-billionaire.
Oprah Winfrey
1st African American to play major league baseball in the modern era.
Jackie Robinson
Civil rights activists who took bus rides (Freedom Rides) in the south to protest segregation in 1961.
Freedom Riders
Novelist, Filmmaker, Anthropologist.
Author of: Their Eyes Were Watching GOD.
Zora Neale Hurtson
Inventor of the Cellular Phone
Henry T Sampson
(Yeah, He's black alright!!!)
The 1st published black female poet and a former slave from West Africa sold to a family in Boston.
Phyllis Wheatley
The most prominent figure in the civil rights movement who led peaceful protests.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The intellectual, social and artistic explosion that occurred in Harlem and Paris during the 1920's.
Harlem Renaissance
He spoke about the N word and it's usage and permission. He is the author of Between the World and Me and writer of the comic book series Black Panther for Marvel.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
A network of secret houses and routes used by enslaved people to escape to free states.
The Underground Railroad.
An activist who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus. Her action sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa Parks
The first black Supreme Court justice.
Thurgood Marshall
9 students who integrated Little Rock HS in 1957. The army protected the students from violence.
Little Rock 9
NAACP leader and writer of the the Black National Anthem- Lift Every Voice and Sing.
James Weldon Johnson
Inventor of the elevator.
Alexander Miles
(Yup THAT'S RIGHT!! A BLACK MAN!!!)