Brain bowl

This woman wrote "My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr." in 1969 and was a civil rights activist well- after her husband passed away. She was a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal and passed away in 2006.

Coretta Scott King

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared this as the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020.

Covid 19 Pandemic

A lightweight plastic shoe that was first made for boating use, these shoes have become a fashion trend over the last few years.

Crocs

This Star soccer athlete earned the 2012 NCAA Championship while at UNC and was named the country's best collegiate soccer star with the Hermann Trophy. Fresh into her professional career, she was the first overall pick in the 2014 NWSL Draft. She's since become the youngest player to be named league MVP and was a part of the FIFA World Cup winning Women's National Team in 2019. Tokyo is her second Olympic Games.

Crystal Dunn

Stories that come from a writer's imagination are also known as this.

Fiction

Franklin Delano Roosevelt participated in these informal radio "chats" during his presidency.

Fireside Chats

This university is located in Tallahassee, FL, was founded in 1887, and the athletic team's nickname is the "Rattlers". Their "Marching 100" band is known worldwide.

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU)

In 1933, this president said "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

Franklin D Roosevelt

This powerful speaker and self-educated man became one of the most respected black voices of the abolitionist movement and helped with the Underground Railroad.

Frederick Douglass

This was what a person freed from slavery was known as.

Freedman

This group rode interstate buses in 1961 to make sure that the Supreme Court ruling on the Montgomery bus law in 1960 was being enforced. Their efforts helped issue new regulations that banned segregation on interstate buses and in bus stations.

Freedom Riders

This scientist's research transformed agricultural development in the South, including different uses of the peanut to develop hundreds of products.

George Washington Carver

This phenomenon is the gradual increase over air temperature over time on Earth.

Global Warming

At age 12, she is one of the youngest composers for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. She composed an original piece inspired by the global Black Lives Matter protests happening within the coronavirus pandemic (aptly named Summer), and it was performed by one of the top orchestras in the world.

Grace Moore

In 1983, this man became the first African American astronaut in space.

Guion Bluford, Jr.

A type of three-line poem where the first and third lines contain five syllables and the second line contains seven syllables.

Haiku

Nicknamed "Moses of her people", this woman icon in American courage and freedom helped lead hundreds of slaves to freedom. She also played a key role when she spied behind Confederate lines during the Civil War.

Harriet Tubman

He was the president who ordered the armed forces to desegregate, instructed the Justice Department to actively enforce civil rights laws, and took other steps to advance the civil rights of African Americans in the 1940s-1950s.

Harry S. Truman

This disease is currently the leading cause of death each year in the USA.

Heart Disease

The first person to ever graduate from college despite being deaf and blind, this woman became an accomplished author and advocate for people with disabilities, worker's rights, and women's suffrage. Her autobiography was called "The Story of My Life."

Helen Keller

After being diagnosed with cervical cancer at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951, a sample of this woman's cancer cells was taken without her consent by a researcher. She died later that year at 31 years old. Her cells would go on to advance medical research for years to come, as they had the unique ability to double every 20-24 hours. "They have been used to test the effects of radiation and poisons, to study the human genome, to learn more about how viruses work, and played a crucial role in the development of the polio vaccine,".

Henrietta Lacks

Before Barry Bonds captured the record in 2007, this African American Hall-of-Fame baseball player held the Major League Baseball home run record.

Henry "Hank" Aaron

Back in Colonial times, many people were given passage to the United State by becoming a laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America, otherwise known by this term.

Indentured Servant

What word means "to end separation of different races and bring equal membership in society"?

Intergrate

An all-African American college, this school in Mississippi was the unfortunate place where two students were shot and killed following a night of campus violence due to the anti-war protesting of the Vietnam War and the Cambodian invasion.

JSU Jackson State University

This type of music combined elements of work songs, gospel music, spirituals, and African rhythms. It was developed in the late 1800s by African American musicians in New Orleans.

Jazz

"____________________" a minstrel character popular during the early 1820s, is the namesake of an American system of discrimination and segregation.

Jim Crow

Name the current president of the United States of America.

Joe Biden

In his inaugural address, this president said, "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what America will do for you, but what you can do for your country."

John F. Kennedy

Name the current Vice President of the United States of America.

Kamala Harris

This Supreme Court Justice nominated by President Joe Biden, is a graduate of Miami Palmetto Senior High School, a graduate of Harvard University as magna cum laude, a graduate of Harvard Law school as cum laud and editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Ketanji Brown Jackson

This cultural holiday is a celebration of family, community, and culture created by Dr. Ron "Maulana" Karenga. Its seven main principles are Unity, Self-Determination, Collective Work and Responsibility, Cooperative Economics, Purpose, Creativity, and Faith. It is celebrated every year from December 26- January 1.

Kwanzaa

The rhythm and themes of Jazz inspired this poet, whose works included "Shakespeare in Harlem." He lived from 1902-1967 and was a key contributor during the Harlem Renaissance.

Langston Hughes

This star basketball player from Ohio has been said to be one of the greatest basketball players of all time, winning four NBA championships with three different franchises along with four NBA MVP trophies.

LeBron James

This African American inventor and engineer developed an improved filament for the light bulb that lasted longer than Thomas Edison's original light bulb.

Lewis Howard Latimer

A short, humorous poem usually composed of five lines. It has a rhyme scheme created by two rhyming couplets followed by a final line that rhymes with the first couplet.

Limerick

The major difference between poetry and prose is that it looks different. Prose is organized normally in paragraphs, while poetry is normally organized in this.

Lines

This is a type of writing about real people, places, and events.

Nonfiction

This famous modern day African American woman is a multi-Emmy award winning host of her own TV talk show, an influential book critic, and considered the most charitable and richest African American of the 20th century.

Oprah Winfrey

What is the name of the president's office?

Oval office

One of the first African American writers to gain worldwide fame, this author wrote poetry and novels that used the dialects and folktales of Southern African Americans.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

This world Famous Soccer star who recently passed away was the joint-top goalscorer for Brazil with 77 goals in 92 games. At the club level, he was Santos's all-time top goalscorer with 643 goals in 659 games. In a golden era for Santos, he led the club to the 1962 and 1963 Copa Libertadores, and to the 1962 and 1963 Intercontinental Cup.

Pele

This is a kind of figurative language in which an animal, object, or idea is given human qualities.

Personification

As the entire country began discussing actionable ways to reform police forces this year, the Founder and CEO of The Center for Policing Equity, his evidence-based approach to identifying and rooting out racism in policing emerged as a road map to follow.

Phillip Atiba Goff

Despite fame, was only 12 when she became the first female African American author published.

Phyllis Wheatley

The decision in this case by the Supreme Court in 1896 upheld the separate-but-equal doctrine that legalized segregation.

Plessy v. Ferguson

This is the series of events that take place in a story.

Plot

In 1976, which previous president officially recognized Black History month?

President Gerald Ford

Robert Weaver was sworn in as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 1966. It made him the first African American to be a member of this group.

President's Cabinet

This is a firsthand account of an event, written by someone who actually witnessed the event. It could be an autobiography, journal, diary, memoir, or a letter.

Primary source

Elizabeth Eckford, a 15-year old, was a part of this group in Arkansas who challenged segregation in the deep South and won by being allowed to attend Central High School, formerly an all-white school.

"Little Rock Nine"

Alice Walker, an African American novelist, wrote this book about the story of a poor, black Southern woman's painful journey toward self-realization.

"The Color Purple"

This amendment to the Constitution, passed in 1866, granted full citizenship to all individuals born in the United States.

14th Amendment

African Americans officially won the right to vote in 1870, when this amendment was ratified and became law. This amendment prohibited the state and federal governments from denying the right to vote to any male citizen because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

15th Amendment

What year did the celebration of Black History Week begin?

1926

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4th of this year in Memphis, Tennessee.

1968

This WNBA star made such a name for herself at her alma mater, The University of South Carolina— she holds the school's record for the most points scored in women's basketball and led them to a national championship—that they installed a statue of her at their campus's sports arena. She was the number one WNBA draft pick and later named Rookie of the Year in 2018. In 2020, she was dubbed league MVP. Now, Tokyo marks her first Olympics, and Team USA is favored to win gold.

A'ja Wilson

This president served his country during the Civil War and also was revered for his "Emancipation Proclamation". He was assassinated in Ford Theater by John Wilkes Booth in 1865.

Abraham Lincoln

This term is the active effort to improve educational and employment opportunities for minority groups and women.

Affirmative Action

The president often flies on a special plane provided by the Air Force. It is known by this name, the same name as a popular Nike sneaker.

Air Force One

This Track and Field Athlete has nine Olympic medals under her belt, is currently the only woman to have six golds. All she needs is one more to become the most-decorated female Olympian in track and field history. And in 2019, with her 12th world championship medal, she surpassed Usain Bolt as the most decorated runner in the competition's history. Felix recently launched her own shoe brand and started a $200,000 grant for pro This athlete has athlete moms..

Allyson Felix

At age, 22, is the National Youth Poet Laureate we need right now. She stole the show when she recited her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the Biden-Harris inauguration, as the youngest poet to ever do so. She's also been making headlines for her historic Super Bowl performance and all-around talent.

Amanda Gorman

This policy, formerly used in the Republic of South Africa, is racial separation, economic and political discrimination against nonwhites.

Apartheid

A famous tennis player who later died from AIDS was quoted as saying, "Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can."

Arthur Ashe

Who's father was an immigrant from Kenya, was a former civil rights attorney before starting his political career as an Illinois State Senator in 1996.

Barack Obama

He became the first African American general in the United States Air Force after training at the Tuskegee flying school.

Benjamin Davis, Jr.

This university is located in Daytona Beach, FL, was originally founded in 1904 by Mary McLeod Bethune, and their current president is Hiram C. Powell, Ph.D.

Bethune Cookman

A type of literature, this is the story of a person's life, written by someone else.

Biography

She was the first woman to be elected as bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She is also the national chaplain of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority and will be this year's guest speaker at the City of Lauderhill MLK Celebration.

Bishop Vashti McKenzie

These laws were passed in the South just after the Civil War. They were aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers.

Black Codes

This group of young radicals demanded reforms, which included issues regarding poverty and unemployment. They armed themselves in opposition to the police.

Black Panther Party

The local college in Broward County.

Broward College

This Supreme Court case ruling in 1954 confirmed that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.

Brown V Board of Education

As the only Black driver in NASCAR's top tier, he spoke out against the organization's ongoing and offensive use of the Confederate battle flag.

Bubba Wallace

Which famous athlete has the most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback in NFL history; He was the first person in NFL history to be awarded the NFL's Most Valuable Player award (2015) and Rookie of the Year award (2011).He is a three-time Pro Bowl player (2011, 2013, and 2015).He started a Namesake Foundation, which is a non-profit foundation aimed at community outreach, mentoring, donating to schools, and providing education on diversity. https://camp.com/articles/iconic-black-athletes-that- changed-the-game . He won the Walter Payton Man of the Year Charity Award (2019) for the contributions he's made through his charity work to various communities in North Carolina!.

Cam Newton

This Oklahoma City Thunder NBA player commitment to Black lives is bigger than his fashion-forward "HBCU Tour"; the point guard says he recently co-founded the Social Change Fund "to address social and economic justice issues facing Black communities and break down the discriminatory barriers to success."

Chris Paul

President Lyndon B. Johnson helped grow support to pass this act in 1964 which prohibited discrimination against African Americans in employment, voting, and public accommodations. It banned discrimination not only by race and color, but also by sex, religion, or national origin.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

This era lasted from about 1954-1973.

Civil Rights Era

John Lynch, a member of Congress who had once been enslaved, said "I am treated not as an American citizen, but as a brute...simply because I happen to be of a darker" what?

Complexion

Frederick Douglass said, "There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own" this...

Constitution

At the age of 18, created a "safety pouch" invention to make traffic stops safer for people of color. When he first got his driver's license, his parents gave him "the talk" about the dangers Black individuals often face when interacting with police. He set out to design a solution that would make these kinds of interactions smoother and safer, and he came up with the Safety Pouch: a bright orange pouch for holding ID and other documents that can be quickly snapped onto a car window.

David Price

This is the unfair treatment of a group or unequal treatment because of a person's race, religion, ethnic background, or place of birth.

Discrimination

The winning quarterback in Super Bowl XXII, this Washington Redskin was the first black quarterback to start in a Super Bowl. He is also the first black quarterback to win a Super Bowl.

Doug Williams

As a part of his famous speech in 1963, this visionary said, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Dr. MLK

He was a leader of the African American protest movement who taught his followers to utilize non- violent resistance. He was also a Baptist minister.

Dr. MLK

A type of story that is meant to be acted out for an audience. It is written in a special form called a script, in which lines are written out for characters to speak.

Drama

The decision by the Supreme Court in this case in 1857 stated that enslaved African Americans were property, not citizens, and that it was unconstitutional to prohibit slavery in the territories. It moved the nation closer to civil war.

Dred Scott Decision

This Miami Heat guard helped lead the team to 3 NBA Championships.

Dwyane Wade

Known as the "Tigers", this school is located in Jacksonville, FL and was originally opened in 1866 making it the oldest private institution of higher education in the state of Florida.

Edward Waters College

____________ participated in every stage of building construction of the White House, including carpentry, masonry, carting, rafting, plastering, glazing and painting and also the quarrying and transportation of stone to the construction of the Executive Mansion.

Enslaved (African American) Labors

A short work of nonfiction that deals with a single subject, the purpose of this type of writing may be to express feelings, entertain, explain, or persuade.

Essay

The home of the "Lions", this school is located in Miami Gardens, FL and was originally founded in Live Oak, FL in 1879.

FMU Florida Memorial University

Located in Tallahassee, FL, this school was originally an all-female college, before becoming a co-ed school. The school has a close working relationship with a local Native American tribe, hence their nickname, the Seminoles.

FSU Flordia State University

With alumni like Thurgood Marshall and Toni Morrison, this school, located in Washington, DC, has provided a tradition of quality education since 1867.

Howard University

MLK improvised the most iconic part of this speech.

I Have A Dream Speech

This woman, who was an editor of an African American newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee, was forced to leave town after publishing the names of people involved in a lynching.

Ida B. Wells

Words and phrases that help readers see, hear, taste, smell, and feel what a writer is describing are all forms of this.

Imagery

This word means to formally charge a president, or any other federal official, with a wrongdoing. If this happens, that individual can be put to trial and removed from office if necessary.

Impeach

This famous trumpeter, singer, and bandleader, nicknamed "Satchmo," became best-known during the "Jazz Age."

Louis Armstrong

This woman grew up poor, but after inventing her own hair-growing lotion, she became the first female African American millionaire.

Madam C.J. Walker

In 1992, this woman became the first African American woman astronaut in space.

Mae Jemison

This fiery and passionate leader in the Nation of Islam (Black Muslims) originally criticized the civil rights goal of integration. He first believed the best way for African Americans to achieve justice was to separate themselves from whites, but later altered his ideas calling for an "honest white-black brotherhood."

Malcolm X

Born to a poor family in Jamaica, this educated journalist and powerful leader supported a "back-to- Africa" movement and founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association to promote racial unity and pride.

Marcus Garvey

This famous leader told audiences, "to be a Negro is no disgrace, but an honor"

Marcus Garvey

In 1909, he became the first African American to reach the North Pole.

Matthew Henson

A writer of fiction, poetry, and plays, she is best known for her autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," and the poem, "And I Still Rise."

Maya Angelou

On June 11, 1963, this state field secretary for the NAACP was murdered in Jackson, Mississippi.

Medgar Evers

Who is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005. Nicknamed "Iron Mike" and "Kid Dynamite" in his early career, and later known as "The Baddest Man on the Planet", and is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time.

Mike Tyson

In 2015, this ballerina became the first Black American woman to become the American Ballet Theatre's principal dancer after 75 years.

Misty Copeland

This bus boycott last for more than a year in Alabama after Rosa Parks was denied her seat on the bus and she was arrested. It marked the start of the non-violent protests.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

This school has traditionally been well-known for being the top all-male African American college in the country. It is a liberal arts college located in Atlanta, GA and schooled famous alumni like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Edwin Moses, and Spike Lee.

Morehouse College

There is currently an ongoing crisis in American in relation to the housing market and loans. When most people purchase a home, they take out this.

Mortgage

Known for quotes like "I am the greatest," this champion boxer would "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee."

Muhammad Ali

What is the acronym for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?

NAACP

Mary Church Terrell was the first president of this club, founded in 1896, that established homes for orphans, founded hospitals, and worked for woman suffrage, fulfilling its motto "Lifting As We Climb."

National Association of Colored Women

In 1986, Congress passed Public Law 99-244, which designated February 1986 as "__________ _______."

National Black (Afro American) History Month

This Richard Wright novel portrayed the grim realities of life during the Depression for an African American man growing up in Chicago.

Native Son

A belief that native-born Americans are superior to foreigners.

Nativism

This New York Times Magazine reporter created the publication, The 1619 Project, which recontextualized the Black American story starting with the arrival of the first enslaved Africans. She was awarded the ultra-prestigious 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, an achievement in and of itself, but the Pulitzer Center also became an official education partner for The 1619 Project and helped to dispatch an entire curriculum based on Hannah-Jones' brilliant work to more than 4,500 classrooms nationwide..

Nikole Hannah-Jones

At 23, this is the youngest photographer to shoot a Vanity Fair cover. He made waves in 2017 for his Glitterboy photo series "unpacking Black masculinity," and went on to shoot celebs like Spike Lee, Young M.A., and Chloe x Halle before photographing Billie Eilish for Vanity Fair's March issue.

Quil Lemons

This political scientist was the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Ralph Bunche

President Woodrow Wilson was in office in 1920 when women were first given the right to this, which was ratified as the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

Right To Vote

She was a seamstress and secretary of the local chapter of the NAACP, when she found an empty seat on a bus in a section reserved for whites. After sitting down in the seat, she was taken off the bus by police and arrested.

Rosa Parks

In 1877, Frederick Douglass was appointed U.S. Marshal of the District of Columbia by President________________________becoming the first African American Presidential appointment by the U.S. Senate.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Jim Crow effectively began after the election of this president____________________.

Rutherford B. Hayes

A literary genre in which the action of a story usually takes place in the future or in outer space.

Science fiction

This is the separation of people from different races, cultures, or ethnic groups.

Segregation

This tennis star has won 23 doubles titles and 73 singles titles, including her open-era 23rd record title she won in 2017 while pregnant. With more than $94.5 million earned in prize money, she's made twice as much as any other female athlete. She also owns a clothing line, is a UNICEF International Goodwill Ambassador, and opened two secondary schools in Kenya.

Serena Williams

A comparison using the word like or as is an example of this. Used in a sentence, it would be "The room was dark as a cave."

Simile

This Olympic gymnast won seven all-around national titles in a row, five Olympic medals, 25 world medals, and has four signature gymnastics moves named after her.

Simone Biles

This popular form of protest was the act of protesting by sitting down. Many high school and college students staged these protests that worked very well in making many stores desegregate due to disturbances and loss of business.

Sit-Ins

These laws passed in the Southern states in the mid-1800's further controlled and restricted enslaved people, including making it a crime to teach enslaved people to read or write.

Slave Codes

The issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment were the two major contributions to help end this.

Slavery

Isabella Baumfree was born into slavery, became an abolitionist, and eventually spoke out for women's rights as well. She proved to be a great speaker as she showed in her most famous speech, "Ain't I A woman?" She changed her name to this in 1843 because she wanted to follow the "truth."

Sojourner Truth

This organization, formed in 1957, emphasized nonviolent protest and helped prepare African Americans for the struggle for equal rights. It went by the acronym SCLC.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

During the slavery era, this is what was known as an African American religious folk song. It was a way for enslaved people to communicate secretly among themselves.

Spiritual song

Billboard has called her "Hip-Hop's First Godmother," but she still never seems to get the credit she deserves for cultivating the genre of rap. In the summer of 1979, Robinson conceived and produced the single "Rapper's Delight." Performed by the Sugar Hill Gang.

Sylvia Robinson

When President Roosevelt appointed a number of African Americans to federal posts, including Robert Weaver, Ralph Bunche, and Mary McLeod Bethune, it was known as this.

The Black Cabinet

From 1914 to 1920, about 500,000 African Americans left their homes in the rural South to seek jobs and settle in Northern cities. What was this known as?

The Great Migration

The inhumane part of the triangular trade, shipping enslaved Africans to the West Indies, was known as this.

The Middle Passage

This "pledge" originally written in 1892, ends with the words, "one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

The Pledge of Allegiance

Francis Scott Key had a special message for the enslaved people who had dared to fight for freedom—in these lyrics "No refuge could save the hireling and slave. From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave" what was the name of this anthem?

The Star Spangled Banner

Name the first president of the United States of America to invite and African American to the White House for Dinner?

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt

The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is always on this day in January.

Third Monday

What African-American is believed to be the first artist to perform at the White House, playing for President James Buchannan in 1860?

Thomas Greene Wiggins, Blind Tom

This man was the chief lawyer for the NAACP during landmark cases like Brown v. Board of Education and was the first African American to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Thurgood Marshall

This current golf superstar is one of the best golfers ever. He was the youngest minority to ever win the US Amateur and was the highest paid individual athlete in 2006.

Tiger Woods

This African American female author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. Some of her works include "The Bluest Eye," "Song of Solomon," "Beloved," and "Jazz."

Toni Morrison

During World War II, the 332nd Fighter Group was also known by this name. They shot down more than 200 enemy planes.

Tuskegee Airman

Booker T. Washington founded this institute in 1881 in Alabama to train teachers and provide practical education for African Americans

Tuskegee Institution

Located in Orlando, FL, this school originally known as Florida Technological University when it was founded in 1963. It is home to approximately 61,456 undergraduate students.

UCF University of Central Florida

A private university located in Coral Gables, FL, this university was founded in 1925 and has a current population of about 17,809 students. The school colors are orange and green.

UM University of Miami

With a main campus in Tampa, FL, this school is one of the top 63 public research universities in the nation. The home of the "Bulls", there are approximately 50,000 students that attend.

USF University of South Florida

Name the secret system of "safe houses" for run-away slaves that featured "stations", "depots", and "conductors". This system helped enslaved African Americans out of the South to freedom in the North.

Underground Railroad

Revised- Incorporated in 1944, UNCF is the acronym for this organization which is dedicated to educating African-Americans.

United Negro College Fund

One of the top public academic universities in the state of Florida, this school is located in Gainesville, FL and is home to the "Gators."

University of Florida (UF)

This track and field superstar athlete holds 19 world records, most notably the world record time for the 100-meter dash with a time of 9.58 seconds. That's an average speed of almost 24 miles per hour!He is an eight-time Olympic gold medallist, and is a world record holder in the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash, and four-person 100-meter relay and is an 11-time world champion.

Usain Bolt

Which African American civil rights leader and writer said, "The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery," just after reconstruction in the 1800's? He was also the first African American to receive a Doctorate degree from Harvard University.

W.E.B. DuBois

On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people participated in the march in this city. At the time, it was the biggest civil rights demonstration ever, to urge support for civil rights legislation.

Washington, DC

There were a series of major urban riots from 1965-1967, with the first, and possibly the worst, being in this section of Los Angeles, California in 1965 where virtually the entire section of the City was burned to the ground.

Watts Riots

What Famous song became the first single to ever be certified as multi-platinum. Three Grammys, an American Music Award, and a People's Choice Award were bestowed upon the single, but most importantly it raised more than $63 million for aid in Africa and the United States?

We Are The World

Many consider this song as the civil rights anthem with lyrics such as "We'll walk hand in hand," and "We shall live in peace someday."

We Shall Overcome

An actor, playwright, and poet, he is probably the best-known English writer of all time including his works "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Hamlet," and "Macbeth."

William Shakespeare

Which President publically supported the racist propaganda film "Birth of a Nation", which is believed to fuel the resurgence of the Klan after WWI?

Woodrow Wilson

This author has a festival named in her honor in Eatonville, Florida. She wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and was an important literary figure during the Harlem Renaissance.

Zora Neale Hurston

This practice for stimulating the body's immune response against diseases was brought to America by an enslaved person. Onesimus was purchased in 1706 for Cotton Mather, a prominent Puritan minister. Though Mather held a great distrust for Onesimus, he knew that the man was clever. Amid the spreading sickness, Onesimus confided to Mather about the practice of inoculations, which had been used in Africa for centuries. Mather brought this vital information to Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, who, despite a major pushback against the idea, managed to successfully inoculate 240 people..

vaccinations