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Who was the first African American golf champion to have more than 80 career wins 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
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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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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
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Who was the first African American to integrate baseball?

Who is Jackie Robinson

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Who said "When they go low, we go high"?

Who is Forever Former First Lady, Michelle Obama.

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She became the first African American woman elected Vice President of the United States.

Who is Kamala Harris?

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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.

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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
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Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
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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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He is the first Black male governor of Maryland, sworn in in 2023.

Who is Wes Moore

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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
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Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker
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Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington
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Which famous person said "“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” ?

Who is Angela Davis

400

Who was the first Black person elected governor in U.S. history?

Who is L. Douglass Wilder

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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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Which African American scientist who is also known as the Black Apollo of Science, became the first to win the Spingarn Medal in 1915?

Who is Dr. Ernest Everett Just

500

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

500

Who said "If there is no struggle, there is no progress."?

Who is Frederick Douglass

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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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This African American leader was both a civil rights activist and a U.S. Congressman known as the “conscience of Congress.”

Who is John Lewis?

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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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