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African Americans in Government
Civil Rights Movement
Famous African Americans
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
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
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

Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?

What is Dred Scott v. Sandford

200

What was the name of the organization founded by W.E.B. Dubois?

What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

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 Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?

What is Plessy v. Ferguson

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
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

Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?

Who is Shirley Chisholm

400

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 famous African American basketball player averaged 30.1 points, 6.2 rebounds, 5.3 assists, and 2.3 steals in 1,072 regular season games?           (Hint: He played for the Chicago Bulls)

Who is Michael Jordan

500

In what year were the first Africans brought to America 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

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

Who is Barack Obama

500

What was the name of the group to attempt integration in high schools?

What is the Little Rock Nine

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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