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This NAACP local secretary launched the Montgomery bus boycott with her act of civil disobedience.

Who was Rosa Parks?

This Indian peace activist inspired the use of nonviolent civil disobedience in the American civil rights movement.

Who was Mohandas Gandhi?

This civil rights organization, known as SNCC, played a major role in the Freedom Rides, the 1963 March on Washington, and the Mississippi Freedom Summer.

What was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?

This prominent civil rights activist went on to serve as the mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, and the United States’ first Black ambassador to the United Nations.

Who was Andrew Young?

This Mississippi voting rights activist, known for singing hymns to galvanize protesters, caused a stir at the 1964 Democratic National Convention as an outspoken “Freedom Democrat.”

Who was Fannie Lou Hamer?

This American abolitionist and orator wrote a well-known autobiography and edited the North Star newspaper.

Who was Frederick Douglass?

This former slave, born Isabella Baumfree, delivered her “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech at an 1851 women’s rights convention.

Who was Sojourner Truth?

When this novel was published in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe, its condemnation of slavery outraged Southerners and won many Northerners over to the abolitionist cause.

What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Originating in Galveston, Texas, this celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the United States is now observed in 26 states.

What is Juneteenth?

This country, whose name means “Land of the Free,” was colonized by freed African American slaves in 1822 with the support of the U.S. government.

What is Liberia?

While in law school in 1990, this future U.S. senator was elected the first Black president of the Harvard Law Review.

Who is Barack Obama?

This philanthropist, political activist, and pioneer of the modern hair care and cosmetics industries became the first self-made U.S. woman millionaire.

Who was Madame C.J. Walker?

This physician and former NASA astronaut became the first Black woman to travel in space on September 12, 1992.

Who is Mae Jemison?

In 1957, she became the first African-American to win Wimbledon.

Who was Althea Gibson?

Born in Atlanta, Texas, she was the first African American woman to become an airplane pilot, and the first American woman to hold an international pilot's license.

Who was Bessie Coleman?

This Harlem Renaissance writer is best known for poems such as “Dream Deferred” and “Life Ain’t No Crystal Stair.”

Who was Langston Hughes?

She is considered the founder of African-American literature, having published “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral,” in 1773.

Who was Phillis Wheatley?

In 1993, this author, activist, and professor became only the second poet in American history to read a poem at a presidential inauguration.

Who is Maya Angelou?

Recipient of 13 Grammy Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, this composer led his influential orchestra from 1923 until his death in 1974.

Who was “Duke” Ellington?

This famous painter was awarded the U.S. National Medal of the Arts in 1990 for his work, which often depicted the history and struggles of African Americans.

Who was Jacob Lawrence?

Carter G. Woodson, African- American historian and author, created this annual recognition of the achievements of Black Americans.

What is Black History Month?

In 1957, the 101st U.S.-Airborne Division escorted nine students into a segregated high school in this city.

What is Little Rock, Arkansas?

This famous educator, who headed Tuskegee University until his death, published Up From Slavery in 1901.

Who was Booker T. Washington?

Dr. Ruth Simmons, from Grapeland, Texas, became the first Black president of an Ivy League school when she was appointed to lead this university in 2000.

What is Brown University?

Supreme Court cases such as Brown v. Board of Education and Sweatt v. Painter challenged this 1896 decision, which established the “separate but equal” doctrine of racial segregation.

What was Plessy v. Ferguson?

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This famous educator, a member of FDR’s so-called “Black Cabinet,” wrote in her Last Will and Testament: “I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you a thirst for education. I leave you a respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity. I leave you a desire to live harmoniously with your fellow men. I leave you, finally, a responsibility to our young people.”

Who was Mary McLeod Bethune?