This author who wrote feminist novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," grew up in Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated all black town in the US.
Who is Zora Neal Hurston?
100
This pioneering woman said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger.'
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
Her refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
This man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
200
This man was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?
200
This infamous pastor said "The time is always right to do what is right."
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
200
This Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
200
This is the name of the activist organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
200
This former slave was made famous by his skills as a orator, and striking intellectualism. He wrote several autobiographies, and became the face of the Northern Abolitionist movement.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
300
This man was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
This recently deceased author said, "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."
Who is Maya Angelou?
300
This Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
He was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Who is Malcolm X?
300
She became the first African American female millionaire by selling her innovative black hair products. There are several photographs of her driving one of the first model T cars with her stylish squad.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
400
This author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison?
400
This famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."
Who is Muhammad Ali?
400
She was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
400
Who was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
400
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till?
500
It was in this year that the first Africans were brought to America to work as slaves.
What is 1619?
500
This modern actor said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
Who is Morgan Freeman?
500
Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?
Who is BARACK BROBAMA!!!!!
500
This group of extremist African Americans suggested a more militant approach to the civil rights movement, causing many government forces to label them as a 'hate group.' Some of these factions are still in effect today.
Who are the Black Panthers?
500
Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?