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African Americans in Entertainment
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

This theater in Harlem is an 100-year-old landmark and birthplace of hundreds of Black entertainers’ careers. 

What is The Apollo Theater

100

Who was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus

Who is Claudette Colvin

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 “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.” 

Who is Langston Hughes

200

What actress and singer performed the most downloaded Star Spangled Banner' performance in Super Bowl history

 Who is Whitney Houston

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 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


Who is the first black person to EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony)?



Who is Whoopi Goldberg

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

Who said "Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble." 

Who is John Lewis

400

Who won the first hip-hop GRAMMY Award for Best Rap Performance in 1988?

Who is Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff  

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 fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
500

Who was the first black quarterback in the nfl?

Who is Willie Thrower

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

This Brooklyn Born director created such Black Classics as School Daze, Crooklyn, and Malcolm X?

Who is Spike Lee

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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