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Famous Black People
100
Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods
100
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman
100

Where was Martin Luther King Jr. born?

What is Atlanta, GA?

100

What year did the Ferguson Riot and Unrest begin? 

When is 2014?

100

This woman was this first female self-made millionaire in America. . .

Who is Madam C. J. Walker?

200
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 state did the first African slaves land in?

What is Virginia?

200

What year was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?

When is 1968?

200
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
300

Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?

DAILY DOUBLE!!

Who is Booker T. Washington

300
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
300

Where was the intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship centered?

What is Harlem, Manhattan, NY?

300

What year was Martin Luther King Day established?

When is 1983?

300
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
400
Which 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

What State is Lowell High School, the first integrated school, located in?

What is Massachusetts?

400

What year was Kwanzaa established?

When is 1966?

400

Which fourteen-year-old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?

DAILY DOUBLE!!

Who is Emmet Till

500

In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?

+150 pts if you can guess the month and day.

What is 1619?

August 20th.

500
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
500

Bethel Baptist Institutional Church is the oldest Black Baptist Church in

What is Jacksonville, FL?

500

What year did the Alabama Church Bombing occur?

When is 1963?

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?
Who is George Washington Carver
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