What is the date of Martin Luther King's Assassination?
100
Won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in the film, "Gone With The Wind"
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
100
Educator and founder of Tuskegee University. Middle name was Taliaferro. He is buried on the grounds of the university.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
100
An educator, who also found many uses for the peanut and the sweet potato. Is also buried on the grounds of Tuskegee University.
Who is George Washington Carver?
200
Brooklyn Dodgers
What is the baseball team that Jackie Robinson played for?
200
The Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on the balcony, outside of room 306.
What is the location of where Martin Luther King fell after being struck down by an assassin's fatal bullet.
200
Jean-Michel Basquait
Who is a New York City-based Artist most known for his paintings of colorful emotional intensity, who also lived in a cardboard box and was homeless for a period of time.
200
Senator from Illinois, who went to the highest office in 2008.
Who is Barack Obama?
200
Inventor of the dry cleaning process.
Who is Thomas L. Jennings?
300
Jack Johnson
Who is first African American Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World?
300
Topeka, Kansas 1954.
What is where and when the case of Brown vs. The Board of Education took place and was decided.
300
Maya Angelou
Who is the poet most famous for her autobiography, "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings", as well as poems, "Life Doesn't Frighten Me", and "Still I Risw"?
300
Believed in the strength of the African American family and the power of education, saying, "Education is our passport to the future; for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."
Who is Malcolm X?
300
Invented the blood bank
Who is Dr. Charles Drew?
400
Althea Gibson
Who is the first African American to win a Grand Slam title and compete at Wimbledon?
400
13 months, 1955-1956, Montgomery, Alabama.
What is when and where did the Bus Boycott take place, and for how long?
400
Alex Haley
Who is the author of "Roots" as well as "The Autobiography of Malcolm X"?
400
Served 27 years in a South African prison for standing up for the civil rights for all citizens of that country, only to be freed and become President of that country in 1994.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
400
A groundbreaking leader in various outlets of media (television, magazines,etc) also one of the richest and most influential people in the world. Began career as a talk show host.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
500
Syracuse University in New York state
What school did Ernie Davis, 1st African American Heisman Trophy-winner attend?
500
1896, New Orleans, Louisiana, established separate but equal conditions between blacks and whites.
What is the case of Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
Clementine Hunter
Who is the Nachitoches, Louisiana artist most famous for her paintings portraying plantation life of the early 20th Century?
500
Following the methods of India's Gandhi, this prominent civil rights leader also believed in protesting in masses and using non-violent methods at all costs.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King?
500
Patented an improved a rotary blade lawnmower with traction wheels which made it possible to mow closer to buildings and wall edges.