Black History Month - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. From where did the term “Jim Crow” originate?
2. What high school did Tupac Shakur attend?
3. What group launched the Freedom Rides in 1961?
4. Who founded the first major Black American nationalist movement that called for Blacks to move back to Africa?
5. This 14 yr old black boy was lynched in Mississippi after being accused of whistling at a white lady.
6. How many trips did Harriet Tubman make to the South to rescue Black slaves?
7. What is the Black National Anthem?
8. Who was born in Florence, Alabama in 1873 and is called “Father of the Blues”?
9. What supreme court case perpetuated "Separate but Equal" doctrine?
10. SNCC member Stokely Carmichael was instrumental in forming the Lowndes County Freedom Organization in Alabama. What was its symbol?
11. This 12 yr old black boy was killed by police while playing with a toy gun.
12. Who discovered over 300 uses for the peanut?
13. Who wrote the bestselling memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
14. Who was the first black principal of Huntley Middle School?
15. Who was the first black man to become a lawyer?
16. Who was the first black Nobel Peace Prize winner?
17. Why was Black History Month created?
18. In this city in 1921 the wealthiest black area erupted in violence after a white woman accused a black man of grabbing her arm. 1,250 homes were destroyed, 6,000 blacks were jailed, and 300 people died.
19. Which supreme court case banned segregation in schools?
20. She was the only female Buffalo Soldier, posing as a man to enlist in the infantry in 1866.
21. Who is the Deputy US Marshal that arrested over 3,000 dangerous criminals?
22. Riots erupted in Minneapolis after his death due to being pinned to the ground by police?
23. What organization was founded in 1966 with a 10 pt platform that addressed police brutality?
24. Who was the first woman to become a self-made millionaire?
25. Who was the couple that had the ban on interracial marriage overturned?
26. Who invented the Home Security System?
27. Who performed the world's first open heart surgery?
28. Garrett Morgan is responsible for which two inventions?
29. Which constitutional amendment made slavery illegal in the USA?