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 A famous bus boycott
occurred in this Alabama City.
 Martin Luther
King, Jr.h.
gave this
speech
at the March on
Washington for
Jobs and
Freedom on
August 28, 1963.
 hurgood
Marshall was
the lawyer in
this
Famous
Supreme
Court Case.
 his amendment to the United States
Constitution prohibited the government
denying a citizen the right to vote based
on that citizen¶s ³race, color, or previous
condition of servitude.´
 A series of state and local laws in effect
between 1876 and 1965. hese laws
enforced segregation by giving non-white
Americans ³separate but equal´ status.
 he first African American
President of the United States.
his iconic, blind rhythm & blues
singer died in 2004.
his controversial activist, assassinated in 1965,
was the author of the speech,
³he Ballot or the Bullet,´
which exhorted African Americans to vote.
his scientist, educator, botanist, and inventor
was an early advocate of sustainable
agriculture. He suggested the peanut as an
alternative crop to cotton.
his Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet
is the author of ³We Real Cool.´

We real cool. We
Left school. We

Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We
hin gin. We

Jazz June. We
Die soon.
his heavyweight boxing champion¶s
nickname was the ³Brown Bomber.´
his famous African American educator
was the head of the uskegee Institute
in Alabama for many years.
he first African-American
Major League Baseball
Player of the modern era
 he first
African
American to
open
a season at
the
Metropolitan
Opera
 his man, along with Peary and four Inuit
assistants, was the first to reach the North Pole.
A movement to end the slave trade
And emancipate slaves in western
Europe and the Americas.
his former slave was killed
during the Boston Massacre.
 his former
slave rescued
over 70
slaves on 13
separate
missions
using the
Underground
Railroad.
In her book, Warriors Don¶t Cry,
Melba Pattillo Beals tells what it
was like to integrate this school.
his man, born a slave in Saint-Domingue,
led enslaved Africans against Europeans
in the Haitian Revolution.
he acronym NAACP stands for this.
his black nationalist group¶s confrontational
tactics often overshadowed its political
goals and community programs.
 he only
player in NBA
history to
score 100
points in a
single game.
 his singer¶s nickname is
³the hardest working man in
show business.´
 One of the names for the unique
dialect used by many African-Americans