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Who was the first African American female billionaire in 2004?

Who is Oprah Winfrey

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Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman
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Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks
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What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
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This amazing 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
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Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
200
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
200
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
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Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Who is Beyonce Knowles
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Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington
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Who 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
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Who 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
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Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
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Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker
400
Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison
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Who said, "Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble."

Who is John Lewis

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What are the colors of the Afro-American Flag?

What is red, black, and green

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Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
400
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
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In what year were the first Africans brought to America to work as slaves?

What is 1619

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Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
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Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
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Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?
Who is BARACK OBAMA!!!!!
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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?
Who is George Washington Carver
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