Definition
What is racism?
The belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another.
Who was Martin Luther King jr?
Was a Baptist, minister and activist
What is the "I have a dream speech".
A public speech that was about civil and economic rights and was made to end racism in the United States.
What is Black Lives Matter?
A movement that is one of the biggest to stand up for black lives against police brutality.
When did the first black lives matter movement happen?
What is July 2013
What is Racial Justices?
Anytime a person is denied their constitutional rights based upon the color of their skin
Who was Nelson Mendela?
He was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and a philanthropist who was the first black president
What is a historically black settlement In Halifax, Nova Scotia?
What is Africville?
What is the Civil Rights movement?
A movement that was a decades-long campaign by African Americans and their like-minded allies to end legalized racial discrimination and racial segregation in the United States.
What caused the uprising in the summer of 2020?
The murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Ahmad Arbery.
What is Racial Profiling?
The discriminatory practice by law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual's race, ethnicity, religion or national origin.
Who is Barack Obama?
The first black president of the United States of America.
What is slavery?
The legal institution of owning other human beings, mainly Africans and African Americans
What is the Mckernan Anti - Racism club.
We will be the judge of your answer. 🙂
When was slavery abolished?
What is January 31st 1865
What is microaggression?
Intentional or unintentional verbal, behavioral, or environmental things that express derogatory or negative towards groups of people that have become a daily practice in our lives.
Who is Mary Jackson?
An American mathematician and aerospace engineer who became the first African American female engineer to work at NASA.
What are Native Americans boarding schools?
Boarding schools for younger children who had been forcibly separated from their families and forced to abandon their Native American identities and cultures.
What is the Selma to Montgomery March?
The nonviolent march was a part of the civil rights movement for Black citizens to exercise the constitutional right to vote.
When was the civil rights act passed?
What is 1965
What is Race?
A social construct that is categorized by certain distinctive physical traits that a human has.
Who is Rosa Parks?
An African American activist in the civil rights movement best known for their pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
What are Japanese internment camps?
Camps for Japanese ancestry who were forcibly relocated and incarcerated in concentration camps in the western interior of the country.
What is the Montgomery bus boycott?
A political and social protest against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama during the civil rights movement.
Who was the first Black congress senator since reconstruction?
Edward Brooke of Massachusetts in 1967