Years
This was the year that Columbus began his journey to the New World.
What is 1492?
This is the name of the man who discovered Elvis Presley and owned Sun Records.
Who is Sam Phillips?
This Black man is considered by most to be the first true rock and roll musician.
Who is Chuck Berry?
This word simply means "fake science."
What is pseudoscience?
This heinous practice was put into use by Southerners who wished to enslave people after slavery was made illegal. It involved renting land, tools, and seeds to Black Americans at rates of exceptionally high interest.
What is sharecropping?
This is the year that the first 20 African slaves were brought to what became the United States.
What is 1619?
This group is said to have the first proper hip-hop song with 1979's "Rapper's Delight."
Who is The Sugarhill Gang?
This 14-year old boy was sadly murdered in Mississippi in 1955. Pictures of his badly damaged corpse were published nationally.
Who is Emmet Till?
Lewis and Clark were specifically looking for this extinct animal, believed to still be alive in the West.
What is the mastadon?
This meeting of European leaders in a German city in 1884 kicked off the plunderous Scramble for Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This was the year that Jamestown was founded in Virginia, the first colony in the New World.
What is 1607?
Like Sammy Davis Jr., this man was a "crooner" in the 1950s and 1960s, sometimes called "Old Blue Eyes."
Who is Frank Sinatra?
This saxophonist is considered one of the true pioneers of jazz, in that he helped create free form jazz in the 1960s.
Who is John Coltrane?
This erroneous "science" claiming that human beings can be bred for desirable characteristics was created by Sir Francis Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin.
What is eugenics?
Literacy tests, poll taxes, and the grandfather clause in the Jim Crow era are all examples of this
What is disenfranchisement?
This was the year that the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is 1896?
Who is DJ Kool Herc?
This man was the main organizer for the March on Washington.
Who is A. Phillip Randolph?
This was process was what Charles Darwin used to explain how animal evolution takes place in his book On The Origin of Species.
What is natural selection?
This is process begun in the late 1800s that carried over into the 1900s where banks, realtors, and insurance companies outlined areas on maps with high Black populations that they then took advantage of and cheated in every way they could.
What is redlining?
This was the year of the famous March on Washington.
What is 1963?
This artist is said to have the first rap song with 1971's spoken word "The Revolution will not be Televised."
Who is Gil Scott Heron?
This man, convinced he had been ordered by God, led a brief but bloody rebellion against white slavers in 1831.
Who is Nat Turner?
Thomas Jefferson and other scientifically-minded Enlightenment thinkers believed in this religion, that claimed that a deity existed but that it did not take part in our day to day lives.
What is deism?
Sometimes called "Black Wall Street," this section of Tulsa, Oklahoma was destroyed by white rioters when they killed over 300 black citizens in May of 1921.
What is Greenwood?