The Harlem Renaissance
The city where the Harlem Renaissance was mainly focused
New York City
The social movement in the United States from 1954 to 1968 which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country, which most commonly affected African Americans
The Civil Rights Movement
He was the first African American player in Major League Baseball
Jackie Robinson
Garrett Morgan created the first gas mask, an invention that has saved countless lives. What other invention did he create that prevents car accidents?
The traffic light
a person who participates in sports or other physical activities
Athlete
The type of music associated with the Harlem Renaissance
Jazz
Public speaker and writer who spoke against slavery
Fredrick Douglass
This Track and Field Olympian was not invited to the White House after winning a gold medal
Jesse Owens
Daniel Hale Williams opened the first integrated hospital in the US, and was the first doctor to successfully perform what kind of surgery?
Open Heart Surgery
a person who invented a particular process or device; someone who invents things as a job or hobby
Inventor
The reason why many African Americans soldiers were in Paris
World War One
At age six, she became the first African American child to integrate a Southern elementary school
Ruby Bridges
What did Wilma Rudolph do when she found out the parade honoring her Olympic wins would be segregated?
She refused to attend the parade unless it was desegregated, forcing the city to hold its first integrated parade.
What did Marie van Britton Brown invent to try to prevent robberies in her neighborhood?
CCTV / Security Cameras
a way for a group of people to come together and show they strongly disagree with something or want a change
Protest
The most widely recognizable writer of the Harlem Renaissance with works such as Harlem (A Dream Deferred), I, Too, The Weary Blues, and Dreams
Langston Hughes
15 year old Claudette Colvin was arrested because she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, this inspired Rosa parks and the NAACP to start what movement?
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
This tennis star received a trophy from the Queen of England after being the first Black player to win at Wimbledon
Althea Gibson
Mathematician Gladys West helped model the shape of the Earth, and her work led to the development of what map and direction system we use daily?
GPS
unfair treatment of one particular person or group of people. Usually the different treatment is because of the person’s gender, religion, nationality, ethnicity, race, or other personal traits.
Discrimination
The name of the movement of 6 million Black Americans from the southern USA to northern, midwestern, and western cities
The Great Migration
What year was the Civil Rights Act passed?
A. 1954
B. 1960
C. 1964
C. 1964
This athlete, who could not walk from ages 8 to 12 due to Polio, ended up winning an Olympic bronze medal for track at age 16
Wilma Rudolph
Mary Jackson, Dorthy Vaughn, and others were responsible for doing the math that got NASA into space and to the moon. What was their job called?
Human Computers
a movement or period with great advances in art and learning
Renaissance