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

Which African American was an Illinois Senator and was later elected president of the United States in 2008?

Who is Barack Obama

100
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
100
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
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 Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?

What is Brown v. Board of Education

200

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 was Martin Luther King Jr.

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?
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

Which African American woman was forcibly sterilized in 1961 and later became a prominent mobilizer for African American voting rights in Mississippi?

Fannie Lou Hamer

300
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

Which member of the Black Panther Party is known for her iconic afro, and successfully defended herself in court?

Angela Davis


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

Which African American was born into slavery, taught himself to read, wrote an autobiography to bear witness to the horrors of slavery, and was a prominent abolitionist known for his speaking?

Who was Frederick Douglass
400
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)
400

Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?

Madam CJ Walker


500
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619
500
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
500
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
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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