Athletics
Inventions/Inventor
Entertainment
Court/Legal
Women
100
This early 1900's heavy weight boxing champion shares a name with a popular Hawaiian musician?
Jack Johnson
100
The expression "the real McCoy" comes from this inventor of an oil dripping cup for trains. His name is reminiscent of a prophet who was given the keys of turning the hearts of the children to the fathers...
Elijah McCoy
100
This actor who portrayed the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air went on to become one of Hollywood's biggest names. What is his name and the names of his wife and two children?
Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jaden, and Willow
100
The famous court case of Plessy V. Ferguson established what precedence in the U.S. legal system.
Separate but equal
100
This former slave got the nickname "Moses" for the work she did leading her people out of bondage.
Harriet Tubman
200
After being cut from his high school basketball team, this young man went on to win 6 NBA championships.
Michael Jordan
200
This inventor worked in the laboratories of both Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, greatly improving the function of Edison's light bulb through his invention of the carbon filament.
Lewis Latimer
200
Finish the lyrics in this famous Etta James: At last my love has come along my lonely days are over...
and life is like a song
200
This 1954 case can be credited with integrating American public schools.
Brown vs Board of Education
200
Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book that can be partially credited for sparking the Civil War was written by this female author.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
300
The 1936 Berlin Olympics were dominated by this Ohio State track alum and Jackie Robinson's older brother Mack (whose records Jackie eventually broke)
Jesse Owens
300
We college students are all grateful for this inventor (born a slave and named after a founding father) who gave the world the blessed gift of peanut butter.
George Washington Carver
300
The Lion King and Star Wars feature the iconic voice of what African American actor?
James Earl Jones
300
Justice Harlan predicted that the Supreme Court decision reached in Plessy vs. Ferguson would go down in history to be as infamous as this 1896 Supreme Court decision regarding African Americans.
The Dred Scott Decision
300
This former Secretary of State is now a professor of political science at her alma mater, Stanford University.
Condoleeza Rice
400
This man was the first African American to play in the major leagues.
Moses Fleetwood Walker
400
This woman became the first female African American millionaire through her development of beauty products specifically for African American women. She shares her last name with a rather well known Texas Ranger.
Madame C.J. Walker
400
If Patrick Swayze were to die and have to communicate to his wife through a psychic black woman you had better believe it would be this black woman, born Caryn Elain Johnson, but better known by her unique stage name.
Whoopi Goldberg
400
What document is this excerpt from: "And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free"
The Emancipation Proclamation
400
Which famous African American poet penned the following line: A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Maya Angelou
500
This man helped the Brooklyn Dodgers win the World Series in 1955. Prior to his career in baseball he was an All American football player for UCLA as well as their highest scoring basketball player, held the collegiate record in the long jump, and won the first golf tournament he participated in.
Jackie Robinson
500
The world is full of bad drivers, but imagine how much more frightening the roads would be had this man not invented the first stop light in 1923. He is also credited with inventing the gas mask and the first hair straightening system.
Garrett Morgan
500
There are two very well known blind black musicians. Name one of them.
Ray Charles or Stevie Wonder
500
Which Constitutional Amendment granted African Americans the right to vote.
The 15th Amendment
500
Through her position as a journalist, this woman did more to stop the rampant lynching crusade in twentieth century America than any other individual.
Ida B. Wells
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