Welcome to your Do you and your kids know these Black history facts?
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Who was the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad?
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What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
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What were “Jim Crow” laws?
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What is Ruby Bridges famous for?
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What does the phrase “separate but equal” refer to?
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Where was “Black Wall Street” located?
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In what year did interracial marriage become legal in all 50 states, thanks to Mildred and Richard Loving’s case?
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Who was the teenager known as the first African American to refuse to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama (before Rosa Parks’ more famous refusal)?
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Which inventor called himself the “Black Edison” and came up with the modern three-signal traffic light and an early version of a gas mask?
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Which group of young people, including Marion Barry, John Lewis, Diane Nash, and others, played a big part in the Freedom Rides (a desegregation campaign) and the Mississippi Freedom Summer (a voter registration drive)?
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Who was the first Black woman to serve as a U.S. Senator?
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Which famous speech did Sojourner Truth deliver in 1851?