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Is the 44th and current president of the United States, and the first African American to serve as U.S. president.
Who is Barack Obama?
100
Olympic gymnast is best known as the first African American to win the individual all-around event.
Who is Gabby Douglas?
100
The author of "The Color Purple".
Who is Alice Walker?
100
The first record of Africans in English colonial America were in this colony.
What is Jamestown?
100
Revolutionized jazz music after arriving in Chicago to play second trumpet in King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
200
She became the first major-party black candidate to make a bid for the U.S. presidency.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
200
Became the first black player in the major leagues in 1947, signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
200
Author of "Black Boy".
Who is Richard Wright?
200
Becomes the first U.S. state to abolish slavery.
What is Pennsylvania?
200
Creates a sensation with the album Thriller, which becomes one of the most popular albums of all time, selling more than 40 million copies.
Who is Michael Jackson?
300
First African American to serve in the United States Senate.
Who is Hiram R. Revels?
300
American track-and-field athlete won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
Who is Jesse Owens?
300
Author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".
Who is Maya Angelou?
300
Becoming the first published African-American poet.
Who is Jupiter Hammon?
300
Becomes one of the most popular situation comedies in television history
Who is Bill Cosby?
400
Was an eminent human rights leader in the anti-slavery movement and the first African-American citizen to hold a high U.S. government rank
Who is Frederick Douglass?
400
She makes history as the first African-American female to become the principal ballerina of American Ballet Theater.
Who is Misty Copeland?
400
Author of "The Negro Speaks of Rivers".
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
Killed by British soldiers in the Boston Massacre,
Who are Crispus Attucks?
400
The first African-American woman to win the Academy Award for best actress for her role in Monster’s Ball.
Who is Halle Berry?
500
The first African American to win election to public office
Who is Alexander Lucius Twilight?
500
Became the first American woman to win three gold medals at a single Olympic Games.
Who is Wilma Rudolph?
500
Author of "Invisible Man".
Who is Ralph Ellison?
500
Performed open-heart surgery in 1893 and founded Provident Hospital in Chicago
Who is Daniel Hale Williams?
500
Releases Delirious, a film of his stand up comedy, and stars in Saturday Night Live.
Who is Eddie Murphy?
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