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She has dedicated her life to the treatment and prevention of visual impairments. In 1985 she invented a specialized tool and procedure for the removal of cataracts.
Who is Dr. Patricia Bath?
100
This young man, branded by many as "the Greatest Basketball player" of all time has six NBA Championships, five regular-season MVPs, six Finals MVPs (NBA record), 14 All Star selections, and three All-Star MVPs, he is the most decorated player ever to play in the NBA.
Who is Michael Jordan
100
In 1972 she became the first African American woman to run for President of the United States. She was elected (1968) to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat, becoming the first black woman to serve in that body.
Who is Shirley Chisholm
100
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619
100
He started singing when he was seven. He sang a love song to a rat, and it went to number 1! His Thriller spent a record 80 consecutive weeks, more than a year and a half, in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200. Worldwide, its sales total has been estimated at 110 million copies and is the top-selling album in history!
Who is Michael Jackson
200
This physician, researcher and surgeon revolutionized the understanding of blood plasma – leading to the invention of blood banks.
Who is Dr. Charles Drew?
200
First African American to win gold in a Winter Olympics and the event. Or the first African American to win an individual gold in the winter Olympics and the event
Who is Vonetta Flowers. Bobsled. Shani Davis. Speed Skating.
200
He was the first African American to earn a doctorate and a co-founder of the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B DuBois
200
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
200
Hallie Berry made history when she became the first African American Female to win an Oscar for Best Actress. But before there was Hallie, this young lady took home an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress simultaneously becoming the first African American to be nominated and to win an Oscar.
Who is Hattie McDaniel
300
She was the second African American Women to graduate from medical school and in 1873 this individual opened a directory center to provide medical and legal services to destitute women and children in Washington D.C.
What is Rebecca J. Cole
300
Before the Williams sisters picked up a racquet, this lady ruled the courts. Winning the US Open, the French Open, and Wimbledon before she decided to try her hand at Golf.
Who is Althea Gibson
300
Who is the person responsible for launching the Montgomery bus boycott, one of the pivotal events of the civil-rights movement? Following her death, the front seats of city buses were reserved with black ribbons to honor her.
Who is Rosa Parks
300
This famous black man played was the first to star in a television sitcom. In the late 60's he starred in 'I Spy' with Robert Culp. Later in the late 80's he starred in another sitcom that involved a black lawyer and a black physician raising a house full of children.
Who is Bill Cosby
300
The first African-American woman composer whose work was performed by a leading US orchestra.
Who is Florence Beatrice Price
400
Who was the first African American woman to receive an M.D degree (medical degree)?
Who is Rebecca Lee Crumpler
400
Although she was never allowed to skate in the Olympics, Scott Hamilton, Kristi Yamaguichi, Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner, are indebted to this lady. She was inducted into the US Figure Skating Hall Of Fame in 1997
Who is Mabel Fairbanks
400
A brilliant engineer, and writer he was also the first African American to graduate from West Point.
Who is Henry O. Flipper
400
Trained as a cook, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he took control of one of the antiaircraft guns and fired until he ran out of ammunition. In so doing he became the first African American to earn a Navy Cross
Who is Doris 'Dorie' Miller
400
Not Bob Marley, but another blues and rock and rock guitarist a little before his time. Known as ‘The Father of Rock and Roll’.
Who is Chuck Berry
500
In 1987, this doctor made medical history when he operated for 28 hours to separate a pair of Siamese twins, born joined at the back of the head. Operations to separate twins joined in this way had always failed, resulting in the death of one or both of the infants. The twins were successfully separated and can now survive independently.
Who is Ben Carson
500
Which woman became the first black female swimmer to break an American record, beating out Jenny Thompson, the most decorated American swimmer in Olympic history? She is also the first female black swimmer to make it onto the U.S. Olympic team.
Who is Maritza Correia
500
The three civil rights workers found murdered in Mississippi in 1964 were Goodman, Schwerner, and __________.
Who is Chaney
500
In 1777, while still a territory this state developed their own constitution. The constitution affirmed that all men are born equally free and independent and that no male over the age of 21, or female over the age of 18 may serve another in the role of servant, slave or apprentice.
What is Vermont
500
She was called the ‘The First Lady Of Song.’ She was renown for her scat singing.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald
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