This person broke Major League Baseball’s modern color line in 1947.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
100
This network of secret routes and safe houses were used to help enslaved Africans in the United States to escape to free states and Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
100
This Spike Lee movie is about fraternity and sorority members clashing with other students at a historically Black college during homecoming weekend.
What is School Daze?
100
This book is the autobiography of Booker T. Washington.
What is Up from Slavery?
100
This person discovered more than 300 uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans, sweet potatoes.
Who is George Washington Carver?
200
This person was the first African American to win four gold medals in track and field in a single Olympics and also graduated from The Ohio State University.
Who is Jessie Owens?
200
A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin organized this event to pressure the US government into desegregating the armed forces and providing fair working opportunities for African Americans.
What is the March on Washington?
200
This Antoine Fuqua movie is about two LAPD narcotics detectives over a 24-hour period in the gang neighborhoods of the North West and South Central Los Angeles.
What is Training Day?
200
In this book, W.E.B. DuBois examines the concept of double consciousness.
What is the Souls of Black Folk?
200
This person developed a hair and beauty empire and therefore became the first Black female millionaire.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
300
She was the first Black female aviator.
Who is Bessie Coleman?
300
This cultural movement, also known as the New Negro Movement, spanned the 1920s and 1930s and included the new African American cultural expression.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
This movie is based on the Pullitzer Prize winning novel by Alice Walker.
What is The Color Purple?
300
In this book, Carter G. Woodson provides a scathing critique of the US educational system.
What is The Mis-Education of the Negro?
300
This person discovered that blood could be preserved and reconstituted at a later date.
Who is Charles Drew?
400
This person was the first Black to win a Wimbleton in tennis.
Who is Althea Gibson?
400
Gabriel Prosser, Nat Turner, and Denmark Vesey organized these events.
What are slave revolts?
400
This movie is a saga of African American life, based on Alex Haley’s family history.
What is Roots?
400
This 1969 autobiography about the early years of African American writer and poet is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma. It was the first of a seven volume series.
What is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
400
This person invented the gas mask and traffic light.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
500
This person joined a major league baseball team in the summer of 1947, becoming only the second African American player in major league baseball.
Who is Larry Doby?
500
This landmark decision by the US Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether slave or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court.
What is the Dred Scott case?
500
This movie is a saga of African American life, based on Alex Haley’s family history.
What is Roots?
500
This 1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston is regarded as a seminal work in both African American and women’s literature and was adapted to a film with the same name.
What is Their Eyes Were Watching God?
500
This person created a method for removing cataract lenses that transformed eye surgery by using a laser device.