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This famous astrophysicist was head of the Hayden Planetarium and hosted "Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey".

Who is Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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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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Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?

Who is Barack Obama

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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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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
200

This physician was both the first black resident at NYU and the first black female physician to receive a medical invention patent?

Who is Dr Patricia Bath

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Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
200
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
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)
200
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker
300

This NASA employee was critical in performing the calculations to send the first American into space.

Who is Katherine Johnson

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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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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 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

Who is known as the founder of Black History Month?

Who is Carter G. Woodson

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In 1992, this woman became the first African American to go to space.

Who is Mae C. Jemison

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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
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 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
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Who was the mathematician who's work in modeling the shape of the Earth contributed to the creation of the Global Positioning System (GPS)?

Who is Gladys West

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Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
500
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
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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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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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