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He is a pivotal Civil Rights Movement leader and Baptist Minister who led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and 1968 March on Washington.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
In 2013, the movement began with the use of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African-American teen Trayvon Martin the preceding February.
What is Black Lives Matter?
100

The 1954 US Supreme Court case in which the court declared unconstitutional state laws that established segregation in public schools.

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

100
This is the first film in the Marvel Universe featuring a Black super hero.
What is Black Panther?
100
She was the First African American Pulitzer Prize winner. (1950)
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
200
He was was an American botanist, chemist, and inventor who actively promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. He's most famous for finding 105 recipes for peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver?
200
She is best known for her role as "Mammy" in Gone with the Wind (1939), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first Academy Award won by an African American entertainer.
Who is Hattie McDaniels?
200

Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the US Supreme Court decisions which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.

Who were the Freedom Riders?

200
This 2013 film shows flashbacks of Oscar Grant's's final days leading up to his death.
What is Fruitvale Station?
200
She would go on to win a total of 14 Grammy awards, her first awards in 1958 for Best Female Vocal Performance for "The Irving Berlin Songbook" and Best Individual Jazz Performance for "The Duke Ellington Songbook". .
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
300
In 1972 she was the first black candidate for a major party's nomination to run for President of the United States.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
300
He was the first black male to win "Best Male Actor in a Film" category at the Oscars for "Lilies of the Field" in 1963.
Who is Sidney Poitier?
300

Students representing HBCUs sit at segregated lunch counters to protest the city's legally sanctioned segregation.

What were sit-ins?

300
Based on the 1982 novel of the same name by African-American author Alice Walker who won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. This film depicts the lives of African-American women facing bigotry and racism in the American South.
What is The Color Purple?
300
Started in March 1921 in Harlem New York by Harry Pace, it's considered the first widely distributed record label to be owned, operated, and marketed to African Americans
What is Black Swan Records?
400
He is the Architect of the August 1963 March on Washington.
Who is Bayard Rustin?
400
Examples: wearing cornrows while not black, wearing a bindi while not Indian.
What is cultural appropriation?
400

A civil rights organization formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans.

What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?

400
This 2017 film won Best Picture at Oscars--not La La Land.
What is Moonlight?
400
First African American woman TV show host in 1986 and the richest African-American.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
500
This person invented Negro History Week (which later became black history month). (1926)
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
500
In the 49ers' final 2016 preseason game on September 1, 2016, this American football quarterback opted to kneel during the U.S. national anthem rather than sit as he did in their previous games.
What is Colin Kaepernick?
500

Atlanta-based hip hop group, Outkast, named a song after her. But she's more remembered for sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 after she refused to surrender her bus seat to a white person.

Who is Rosa Parks?

500
This 2014 film about the clash between races on a predominantly white Ivy League campus after an offensive Halloween party ensues.
What is Dear White People?
500
She would later become a successful actress and singer, but in 1984 she was the first African-American recipient of the Miss America.
Who is Vanessa Williams?
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