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Who was the first African American golfer to tour in the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Charlie Sifford?
(He earned his PGA Tour card in 1961 and won the 1967 Greater Hartford Open Invitational and 1969 Los Angeles Open.)
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger?"
Who is Harriet Tubman?
(She stated this quote in 1896 at a women's suffrage convention.)
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
(Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.)
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?
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?
In what year was the first Paige Chavis Family Reunion?
What is 1973?
Who was the first African American to serve as the US Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell?
(He was appointed by President George W. Bush on January 20, 2001 after being unanimously confirmed by the US Senate. He served four years, leaving the position on January 26, 2005.)
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right?"
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
(An excerpt from "The Other America," which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered in Stanford University Memorial Auditorium in 1967.)
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
(Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri. From 1833 to 1843, he resided in Illinois (a free state) and in the Louisiana Territory, where slavery was forbidden by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. After returning to Missouri, Scott filed suit in Missouri court for his freedom, claiming that his residence in free territory made him a free man. After losing, Scott brought a new suit in federal court. Scott's master maintained that no “negro” or descendant of slaves could be a citizen in the sense of Article III of the Constitution.)
What is the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a result of the success of the Montgomery Bus boycott in Alabama in 1957?
What is Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
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?
Who was McDuffie Page's second wife?
Who is Deana Siler?
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington?
(The first U.S. stamp to honor an African American was the ten-cent Booker T.Washington stamp, issued in 1940.)
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?
(This is from the poem Still I Rise.)
Which Supreme Court case in 1896 rules that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal?"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
(The ruling in this Supreme Court case upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races.")
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?
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
In what year was Ben Page born?
What is 1840?
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?
(She won the Nobel Prize in 1993. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved in 1988. In the year 2000, she was named a Living Legend by the Library of Congress.)
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?
Who was the first woman and first African American to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
(Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties (1972). She ran under the slogan “Unbought and Unbossed.”)
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.?
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till?
What state other than NC and/or SC did Bennie and Walter Page live in?
What is Michigan?
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619?
(In late August 1619, 20-30 enslaved Africans landed at Port Comfort, which is today Fort Monroe in Hampton, VA.)
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history?"
Who is Morgan Freeman?
Who was the first African American to be elected president of the United States in 2008?
Who is Barak Obama?
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing?
(The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a white supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, September 15, 1963.)
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?
Where was our last family reunion held?
Where is Myrtle Beach, South Carolina?
He founded BET in 1980. It became the first Black-controlled company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Who is Robert Johnson?
Who said "Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us?"
Who is Wilma Rudolph?
(She is first American woman to win three gold medals at a single Olympic Games.)
He was a lawyer, civil rights activist, and first African American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1967–91).
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
He was an American singer, dancer, musician, record producer, and bandleader. In the 60’s, he was known as “Soul Brother Number One.” His hit recordings of that decade have often been associated with the emergence of black nationalist movements. Politicians recruited him to help calm cities struck by civil insurrection, and avidly courted his endorsement.
Who is James Brown?
He was the first black Heavyweight Boxing Champ?
Who is Jack Johnson?
What are the name of the Chavis relatives that married Ben Page's children?
Who were Thomas Chavis and Lizzie Chavis? (Thomas Chavis married Mary Ann Page and Lizzie Chavis married Nathaniel McDuffie Page)