Black History Month Museum Challenge

MUSEUM

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

CHALLENGE

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You have been hired as a curator for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture

Build an exhibit room showcasing the accomplishments of African Americans in the history of the Olympic Games before the latest exhibition opens! Explore the artifacts when you are done.

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African American Olympic Sports History

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On October 16, 1968, this gold medlalist staged a protests against racial discrimination by raising his black gloved fist in the air during the medal ceremony

Question 1

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Muhammad Ali

Tommie Smith

Jesse Owens

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African American Olympic Sports History

At the 2012 London Olympics, this gymnast became the first African American woman to win the gold medal in the the women’s individual all-around competition.

Question 2

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Simone Biles

Gabby Douglas

Debi Thomas

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African American Olympic Sports History

He won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin,becoming the first American athlete to do so

Question 3

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Muhammad Ali

Jackie Robinson

Jesse Owens

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African American Olympic Sports History

This world renowned boxer was given the honor of lighting the cauldron at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

Question 4

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Muhammad Ali

George Foreman

Jackie Robinson

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African American Olympic Sports History

This American basketball team co-captained by Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, playedi n the 1992 Summer Olympics and is considered one of the strongest teams to ever play on the Olympic court.

Question 5

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Redeem Team

All-Stars

Dream Team

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African American Olympic Sports History

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African American Olympic Sports History

Click each icon for a closer look at each artifact

Ticket stub for the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics

1968 Olympic warm-up suit pants worn by Tommie Smith

Basketball signed by members of the U.S. "Dream Team"

Olympic Torch from the 1996 Atlanta games signed by Muhammad Ali

Uneven bar grips used by Gabby Douglas in the 2012 London Olympics

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Movements in African American History

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You have been hired as a curator for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture

Build an exhibit room showcasing movements in African American History before the latest exhibition opens! Explore the artifacts when you are done.

African American Olympic Sports History

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Question 1

This movement was instrumental in the fight to end slavery and in the eventual passage of the Thirteenth Amendment.

Underground Railroad

Abolitionist Movement

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Movements in African American History

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Question 2

This predecessor to the NAACP demanded equal economic and educational opportunity for African Americans and an end to segregation and discrimination in courts, public facilities, and trade unions

Pan-African Movement

Niagara Movement

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Movements in African American History

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Question 3

This movement was rooted in the idea that peoples of African descent share a common cultural and historical heritage

Pan-African Movement

Harlem Renaissance

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Movements in African American History

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Question 4

This movement of the 1950s and 1960s encompassed the fight against racial segregation, support for full African American voting rights, and ending racial discrimination

Black Lives Matter Movement

Civil Rights Movement

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Movements in African American History

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Question 5

This movement encouraged African Americans to unite, learn their heritage, define their own goals, lead their own organizations, and reject white racism

Black Power Movement

Harlem Renaissance

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Movements in African American History

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CONTINUE

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You have completed this room!

Movements in African American History

Click each icon for a closer look at each artifact

A certificate for membership in the American Colonization Society, ca. 1840. During the 19th century, the American Colonization Society was the principal institution promoting the resettlement of African Americans to Africa.

Hundreds of thousands of people join in a multiracial March on Washington in August 1963. The peaceful demonstration for civil rights reform culminated with Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

At the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City, runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos outraged the U.S. Olympic Committee by giving a Black Power salute during the medal ceremony.

African Americans and abolitionists are expelled from Tremont Temple in Boston on December 3, 1860.

Participants of the 20th annual session of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, June 1929.

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African American Historical Figures

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You have been hired as a curator for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture

Build an exhibit room showcasing important figures in African American History before the latest exhibition opens! Explore the artifacts when you are done.

Movements in African American History

African American Olympic Sports History

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She was the first Black woman elected to Congress.

Question 1

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African American Historical Figures

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She was the first African American woman who orbited into space aboard the shuttle Endeavour.

Question 2

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African American Historical Figures

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This person was a renowned African American abolitionist and autobiographer of the 19th century

Question 3

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African American Historical Figures

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This lecturer, writer, academic, and political activist was an icon of the Black Power Movement

Question 4

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African American Historical Figures

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This person was the the first licensed Black pilot in the world

Question 5

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African American Historical Figures

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CONTINUE

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You have completed this room!

African American Historical Figures

Click each icon for a closer look at each artifact

Frederick Douglass

Angela Davis

Bessie Coleman

Shirley Chisholm

Mae Jemison

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You have been hired as a curator for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture

Build an exhibit room showcasing African American contributions to the arts before the latest exhibition opens! Explore the artifacts when you are done.

Movements in African American History

African American Olympic Sports History

African American Historical Figures

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She became the first African American and third woman to publish a book of poems, entitled, Poems on Various Subjects

Question 1

Phillis Wheatley

Marian Anderson

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Rose Marie McCoy

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She became the first African American to win an Academy Award

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Hattie McDaniel

Halle Berry

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Marian Anderson

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This was a blossoming of African American culture in the creative arts during the 1920s and 1930s

Question 3

The Great Migration

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Harlem Renaissance

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This ever evolving musician introduced cool jazz, modal jazz, fusion jazz, pop, hip-hop, and rock into the big band jazz musical genre

Question 4

Louis Armstrong

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Miles Davis

Duke Ellington

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This American painter was known for his raw gestural style of painting with graffiti-like images and scrawled text

Question 5

Kehinde Wiley

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

James Baldwin

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You have completed this room!

CONTINUe

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Click the icon below to learn more about the painting

Presidential Portrait of Barack Obama

Congratulations!

You created a great exhibition! What was your favorite artifact?

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