Leaders Project

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Leaders Project

• Latoya Mitchell- Marian Anderson
• Eyanna Thompson- Clennon Washington King, Jr.
• Kelly Lesane- Dunbar
• Kanisha Addison- Martin Luther King
• Brittany Harris- Desmond Richardson

• Whitney McKee- Quincy Jones
• Brooklyn Jones- Billy Holiday
• Desiree Floyd- Madame CJ Walker
• Simone Floyd- Barack Obama
• Wynola Cain- Rosa Parks

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How Much Do YOU Know About

• African American History???

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When did the foreign slave trade end in the
United States?

• The slave trade in the U.S. ended in 1808, one
  year after it was abolished in Great Britain

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What did the Dred Scott case decide?

• Slaves were not citizens and Congress did not
  have the right to ban slavery on the state level.

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What was the significance of June 19, 1865, known
as Juneteenth?

• The remaining slaves in the United States learned
  that the Civil War had been won by the North and
  that they were now free.

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During Reconstruction, who became the first
African-American senator, ironically completing
the term vacated ten years earlier by Jefferson
Davis, who left the Senate to become the
president of the Confederacy?

• Hiram Revels

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Around the turn of the last century a debate
raged between two major black leaders, one
calling for blacks to strive for economic
betterment that would eventually win them wider
acceptance in white society, and the other
calling for immediate social and political
equality. Who were the two framers of this
debate?
W.E.B. DuBois

• Booker T. Washington

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Which of the following was NOT a black
nationalist movement?

• A. Philip Randolph's Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
  Porters

• Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement
  Association

• Malcolm X's Nation of Islam

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Rosa Parks's heroic refusal to give up her seat
to a white man on a Birmingham bus is an iconic
moment in the civil rights movement. But what
were the actual circumstances of her refusal?

• Parks, sittng in the "whites only" section of the
  bus, refused to move to the back of the bus.

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Which of the following civil rights murder
trials ended with the all-white jury reaching
their verdict to acquit to the two white suspects
in just over an hour? With double-jeopardy
protecting them from being retried, the two later
boasted about the murders in a Look magazine
interview, for which they were paid 4,000.

• The 1955 murder of Emmett Till

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When were the last Jim Crow laws, which
institutionalized segregation in the south,
abolished?

• 1968 The passage of the Fair Housing Act

• 1954 The Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of
  Education, ended segregation is SCHOOLS

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What did the 1978 Bakke decision issued by the
Supreme Court determine about affirmative action?

• While race is a legitimate factor in school
  admissions, the use of inflexible quotas is not.

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Which of these famous books stirred up
anti-slavery sentiment in the United States
before the Civil War?

• Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Who was the most famous "conductor" on the
Underground Railroad?

• Harriet Tubman

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What is an abolitionist?

• A person who wanted to end slavery

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What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

• An executive order by President Lincoln declaring
  that slaves in the Confederate states were free

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Which famous Supreme Court case in 1896 declared
that segregation was legal and constitutional, as
long as segregated facilities were "separate but
equal?"

• Plessy v. Ferguson

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What were Jim Crow laws?

• These laws instituted segregation in the South,
  legalizing racially segregated facilities.

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Which famous Supreme Court Case led to the
desegregation of schools?

• Brown v. Board of Education

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What civil rights leader wrote "Letter from a
Birmingham Jail," which argued the case for
"civil disobedience"the moral duty for
individuals to disobey unjust laws?

• Martin Luther King

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What famous event took place during the March on
Washington?

• Martin Luther King gave his most famous speech,
  "I Have a Dream."

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Who were the "Little Rock Nine?"

• A group of black students who bravely worked to
  desegregate all-white Central High School in
  Little Rock, Ark.