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Black History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| network of abolitionists who secretly helped slaves escape to freedom | underground railroad |
| to set free | emancipation |
| Abraham Lincoln's 1863 declaration freeing slaves in the Confederacy | Emancipation Proclamation |
| Southern laws that severely limited the rights of the after African Americans the civil war | Black Codes |
| Abolished slavery in the United States | 13th Amendment |
| person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop | sharecropper |
| Laws written to separate blacks and whites in public areas/meant African Americans had unequal opportunities in housing, work, education, and government | Jim Crow Laws |
| group formed in 1909 to protect the rights of African Americans | NAACP |
| putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law | lynching |
| music style that developed form blues, ragtime, and other earlier styles | jazz |
| the rights due to all citizens | civil rights |
| legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences | segregation |
| Doing away with the practice of providing seperate facilities for blacks and whites | desegregation |
| mixing of different racial or ethnic groups | integration |
| idea that people have a right to disobey laws they consider to be unjust, if the consciences demand it. | civil disobedience |
| form of protest in which people sit and refuse to leave. | sit-ins |
| program to provide more job and education opportunities for people who faced discrimination in the past | affirmative action |
| famous black abolitionist that escaped from slavery and later wrote the North Star, a book about his life | Frederick Douglas |
| escaped from slavery and helped many people including her parents escape from slavery through the underground railroad | Harriet Tubman |
| brought to free state by his owner. Supreme Court ruled that he was still property | Dred Scott |
| African American educator and civil rights leader; he was born into slavery and later became head of the Tuskegee Institute for career training for African Americans | Booker T Washington |
| He founded the NAACP. Urged African Americans to fight for their rights | W.E.B. Du Bois |
| African American journalist. Had a newspaper called "Free Speech". Protested lynching, and called for a boycott against segregated street cars, and stores owned by whites | Ida B. Wells |
| Best known poet of the Harlem Renaissance, encourages African Americans to be proud of their heritage, and protested racism | Langston Hughes |
| He was head of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. He urged black economic cooperation and founded a chain of grocery stores and other businesses | Marcus Garvey |
| United States educator who worked to improve race relations and educational opportunities for Black Americans (1875-1955) | Mary McLeod Bethune |
| American civil rights lawyer, first black Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall was a tireless advocate for the rights of minorities and the poor | Thurgood Marshall |
| first African-American in Major League Baseball | Jackie Robinson |
| America's greatest civil rights leader his nonviolent protests gained national attention and resulted in government protection of African American rights he was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis Tennessee | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| current US president and commander in chief. (first black president in the USA) | Barack Obama |
| the belief that one race is superior to another | racism |
| A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies | Middle Passage |
| 1865 - Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs | Freedmen's Bureau |
| baseball player earned the nickname "Mr. October" for his outstanding postseason performance (hit 3 homeruns in one game of 1977 World Series) | Reggie Jackson |
| African-American Gateway instructor that holds a U.S. patent (Clock FACE template) | Theresa Thomas |
| the rapper whose first album was titled All Hail the Queen (whose real name is Dana Owens) | Queen Latifah |
| Bill Cosby's first hit TV show called, which debuted on TV in 1965 | I Spy |
| female singer recorded more number one hits than anyone else in the 1990s | Mariah Carey |
| the sportscaster who became the first black co-host of NBC's Today show (in 1982) | Bryant Gumbel |
| "UNCF" stands for | United Negro College Fund |
| Michael Jackson album that won eight Grammy Awards in 1983 (which sold more copies than any recording up to that time | Thriller |
| What major recording company was founded by Berry Gordy, Jr., in 1959? | Motown Records |
| What do the initials "F.U.B.U." (the name of an urban clothing company based in New York City) stand for? | For Us By Us |
| Southern city that is known as the birthplace of jazz? | New Orleans |
| the first black actor ever to win an Academy Award for best actor in 1964 | Sidney Poitier |
| the flamboyant, tattooed basketball star who played with the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s | Dennis Rodman |
| co-starred in the movie The Matrix, playing the part of Morpheus | Laurence Fishburne |
| the first black singer to appear with the Grande Ole Opry in 1967 | Charley Pride |
| U.S. Supreme Court decision declared school segregation unconstitutional in 1954 | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka |
| the first American woman to win four medals in an Olympiad | Florence Griffith Joyner |
| city where the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Center is located | Atlanta |
| fashion designer that said his clothes were intended "not for the queen, but for the people who wave at her" | Willi Smith |
| type of anemia is a genetic disease commonly found among people of African descent | Sickle Cell Anemia |
| considered the "Father of Black History" | Carter Woodson |
| one of the first African-American regiments organzied to fight for the Union in the Civil War | 54th massachusetts |
| In the year 2001, became the first African-American U.S. secretary of state (who was also the first black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) | Colin Powell |
| In 1955, she refused to give her bus seat to a white man. (her actions led to the Montgomery , Alabama , bus boycott and the end of segregation on Montgomery buses) | Rosa Parks |
| became the youngest golfer to win golf's Grand Slam (The Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open,and the PGA Championship) | Tiger Woods |
| first that taught the principle that "Black is beautiful" | Malcom X |
| In the 1960s, form of civil rights protest that began with a long bus ride through the South | The Freedom Rides |
| won back-to-back women's singles tennis titles at Wimbledon in 2000 and 2001 | Venus Williams |
| A black Inventor, who received over 40 patents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries | Elijah McCoy |
| slave songs that combined African rhythms with biblical scripture? (Among the most popular are "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", "Go Down River ", and " Deep River ") | Spirituals |
| people who boldly spoke out or wrote against slavery | Abolitionists |
| African American inventor whose inventions included the traffic light and the gas mask | Garrett Morgan |
| first African American woman in space | Mae Jamison |
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