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100
This 1865 constitutional amendment banned slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
In 1955 this woman refused to obey the bus driver and give up her seat to a white passenger.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
This trumpet player wrote songs such as "This is Wonderful World"
Who is Louis Armstrong?
100
Who is the first African American president?
Who is Barack Obama?
100
Name a few famous historically black colleges and universities?
What is Howard, Spellman and Morehouse University.
200
This 1954 Supreme Court decision held that separate public schools for black and white students was unconstitutional?
What is Brown v. The Board of Education?
200
What is the name of the first black child to desegregate an all white school?
Who is Ruby Bridges?
200
Who was the Queen of Jazz?
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
200
This recent movement has pushed colleges to address racism on campus and has proposed educational reforms?
What is the Black Lives Matter movement?
200
What law enacted in 1965 was intended to provide financial aid for students in higher education?
What is Title IV - The Higher Education Act of 1965?
300
This 1870 constitutional amendment granted the right to vote to African American men.
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
This famous black educator founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama for black students in 1881. He is famous for teaching African-Americans the value of helping themselves through education and hard work
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
What modern famous black artists' painting just sold for 110.5 million dollars this month (May 2017) at a Sotheby auction?
Who is Jean-Michel Basquiat?
300
What was the name of the event in 1995 in which black men gathered in Washington D.C. to declare their right to justice?
What is The Million Man March?
300
What was the name for the group of black teenagers who were determined to attend Central High School, the all white high school in Arkansas in 1957. On the first day of school, the governor of Arkansas ordered the state's National Guard to block these students from entering the school.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
400
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation under the doctrine of "separate but equal"
What is Plessy v. Fergueson
400
This man believed education was a key to success for all African Americans. He helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
400
He was a poet, activist and leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City in the 1920s.
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
What is the name of the 1st black law school?
What is Howard University?
500
These state and local laws enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States in public schools, public transportation and public places and the segregation of restaurants, restrooms and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. The laws were in effect from the 1870s until the civil rights movement in the 1950s.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
500
This civil rights leader is best known for utilizing non-violent civil disobedience.
Who is Martin Luther King?
500
This famous American artist painted "The Problem We all Live With" depicting Ruby Bridges.
Who is Norman Rockwell?
500
What is the name of the first black college for woman opened in 1881?
What is Spellman College?
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