Do you and your kids know these Black history facts?

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1. 
Who was the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad?

2. 
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

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What were “Jim Crow” laws?

4. 
What is Ruby Bridges famous for?

5. 
What does the phrase “separate but equal” refer to?

6. 
Where was “Black Wall Street” located?

7. 
In what year did interracial marriage become legal in all 50 states, thanks to Mildred and Richard Loving’s case?

8. 
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)?

9. 
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?

10. 
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)?

11. 
Who was the first Black woman to serve as a U.S. Senator?

12. 
Which famous speech did Sojourner Truth deliver in 1851?

Robyn is Editor-in-Chief at ParentsTogether and is co-author of several NYTimes bestselling anthologies. She lives in southern Michigan with her husband and five children.