Black History Month Review

She led slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad. She made a total of 19 trips saving over 300 people.

This term refers to the judgement of someone based on his/her age, gender, or race (skin color).

When slaves were forced to walk hundreds of miles from the upper to lower part of the South this was known as what?

Celebrated during February, it was created to honor famous African Americans and those who changed the world.

She went to court to free her son from slavery and was the first woman to win a case of this kind.

He was a leader during Civil Rights who strived for African Americans to be treated equally even through violence.

She was a human computer for NASA and planned the trajectory of rockets upon re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.

All of these were triggers for the Civil War except what?

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this fictional book that opened the eyes of many people on the horrors of slavery.

She was the first African American congresswoman and first woman to run for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination

This person created the cotton gin which unfortunately expanded the cotton industry in the South.

He broke the color barrier in professional baseball, and he became a role model for citizens across the U.S.

These were people who strived for the quick end to slavery.

He kept a journal with the names and descriptions of the roughly 800 slaves he sheltered in the Underground Railroad.

A form of peaceful protest where people sit in a place where it is against the law for them to be.

The most deadly and horrific part of the journey for over 12 million Africans moving from Africa to the Americas.

In 1831, he led a slave revolt where over 60 white men, women and children were killed.

This is a form of peaceful protest, but it occurs when people refuse to go to a business, buy products or use a service.

This person invented the traffic light and the safety hood.

These were sets of laws established specifically to segregate people based on skin color in public places.

This was a series of routes which led slaves from the South to Canada.

She was the first self-made woman and African American millionaire, and she worked in cosmetics and hair care products.

He left the American Red Cross because it segregated donated blood, and he lengthened the shelf life of donated blood.

He protested segregation peacefully through speeches such as his “I Have a Dream” speech; he was assassinated.

This movement was created to promote the human right of equality and occurred during the 1950s and 1960s in the U.S.

This was a section of Tulsa, Oklahoma where African Americans built a private community of 35 to 40 blocks.

On December 1^st, 1955, she stood up for her civil rights by not moving to the African American section of the city bus.

He wrote the Journal of African American History, and he helped create black history week.

The trade and transportation of African men, women and children across the Atlantic Ocean to use as slaves.

She wrote many books, essay, poems, quotes, and autobiographies and was a huge advocator for civil rights.

This was a nickname for African Americans who left the South after the Civil War.

It was fought between the Northern and Southern United States from 1861-1865.

He learned to read and write, and after gaining his freedom, he wrote an autobiography of his life as a slave .

He was our nation’s first African American president, and he was also the 44^th president of the United States of America

The separation or ban of people from certain places or events usually because of his/her beliefs, culture, race or skin

Since she was an African American woman, she had to move to France in order to become a pilot.