(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.
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Jackie Robinson
Famous black baseball player, first professionally recognized black athlete
Civil War
A war against the North and the South that was fought because of the desire to stop the purchasing of slaves
Abraham Lincoln
The president that got rid of slavery and was for helping the north win in the Civil War
Underground Railroad
A system of paths and people dedicated to helping slaves escape slavery
Harlem Renaissance
a time in the 20’s when African Americans developed their own sense of culture in music, art, and society, greatly influencing culture
Thurgood Marshall
First black member of the US’s Supreme Court
Grandfather clause
Laws put in place during the reconstruction to limit black voting
Sojourner Truth
She was an abolitionist that was also for temperance and womens right all throughout the 19th century
Black Panthers
A group of violent activists that were led by activist Malcom X that were also for the civil rights movement as well.
Emancipation Proclamation
A piece of legislation that freed all slaves that were not in control of union states
Amendment added shortly after the end of the civil war, abolished slavery for all of America
Booker T. Washingthon
Major advocate for African American educational reform, founded the Tuskegee institute
Dred Scott
African American involved in a Supreme Court Case which led to black people being legally recognized as slaves and being able to be reclaimed even if they escaped to a free state
Harriet Tubman
The pioneer of the underground railroad, led many slaves to freedom
Rosa Parks
Refused to give up her seat on a bus, leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, A major event in the African Civil Rights movement
Little Rock 9
First group of black people to go to non segregated school, led to controversy.
WW2
The first major war that utilized African Americans as troops
Malcom X
Leader of Black panthers, an African American reform movement leader who believed in radical reform, advocating for violence to get reform
Cotton
A cash crop often grown on plantations, Slaves were used to harvest and process it.
Louis Armstong
Influential African American Jazz musician “First Great Soloist”
Slavery
Permanent indentured servitude for black people that was caused by the capture of Africans by Europeans
Barack Obama
First black president, who passed the Affordable Care act
Nat Turner
An African American who organized a large rebellion
Martin Luther King
led peaceful protests for the civil rights movement, he also gave a speech that attracted thousands of people at the Lincoln monument
Fredrick Douglas
Leader of the Abolitionist movement in the mid-1800s
