The game the speaker references in her proclamation
Monopoly
The man who gave a speech along side Hamer at the Harlem Rally for the MFDP
Malcolm X
“The Sonic Boom of the South” is the band at this popular HBCU in Mississippi
Jackson State University
“‘The land of the tree and the home of the grave’”
Fannie Lou Hamer
The reason slaves were brought to America
Economics
The penitentiary Hamer was sent to after trying to vote
Parchman Penitentiary/ Parchman Plantation
The building on USM’s campus named after the first African American to apply here
Kennard-Washington Hall
“Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Three cities in which there was economic wealth being generated by Black communities
Tulsa, Rosewood, Philadelphia, or Harlem
The party founded to help desegregate the Mississippi Democratic Party
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
This major motion picture, based on the book by Kathryn Stockett, was filmed in parts of Jackson and Greenwood in Mississippi
The Help
“I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man’s problem just to avoid violence”
Malcolm X
The state that banned black people prior to the Civil War
Oregon
The result of Hamer registering to vote
She was fired from her job and was forced to leave the plantation
This riot occurred on September 4th, 1875 and led to a massacre over several days that signaled the end of the Reconstruction Era
Clinton Massacre/Riot
“Ain’t I a woman?”
Sojourner Truth
The year Mississippi passed the 13th Amendment
2013
The theme represented in both Fannie Lou Hamer’s speech and the “How do we Win" speech
The theme of existing but not owning what you have in this life and that nothing really belongs to you/ Systematic change.
The first African American to serve in the United States Senate
Hiram Rhodes Revels
“We want every Negro to work for one common object, that of building a nation of his own on the great continent of Africa.”
Marcus Garvey