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100
Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods
100

Who was the first well-documented Black person in Oregon? This person was crewmember on the Lady Washington 

Who is Markus Lopius 

100
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
100

This act prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, and public accommodations. It ensures equal rights for LGBTQ+ individuals, protecting them from being treated differently by employers, landlords, or businesses.

What is the Oregon Equality Act of 2007

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

What was the only state to enter the Union (1859) with a constitutionally prohibited ban on Black residents 

What is Oregon

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 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
200

During the racially contentious period in the late '60s, she became the first Black woman elected to Congress. She represented New York's 12th District from 1969 to 1983, and in 1972, she became the first woman to run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. 

Who is Shirley Chisolm 

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 was a freed slave and blacksmith, that has a mountain named after him in the Siskiyous ? 

Who is Ben Johnson (Ben Johnson Mountain)

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

Who became the first Black city commissioner for Portland?

Who is Charles Jordan 

400
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
400

He challenged the position held by Booker T. Washington, another contemporary prominent intellectual, that Southern Blacks should compromise their basic rights in exchange for education and legal justice

Who is W.E.B Dubois

400

Black American mother of five whose cancer cells, taken without her knowledge in 1951, became the first immortal human cell line (“HeLa”). These cells, which divide indefinitely, revolutionized medical research, contributing to polio vaccines, cancer treatments, and COVID-19 studies.

Who is Henrietta Lacks 

500
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619
500

She sued for her estate and became one of the first Black women to secure a land claim in Oregon. 

Who is Leticia Carson 

500

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

Who is Barack Obama

500

This was the first U.S. federal law to define all persons born in the United States—except untaxed Native Americans—as citizens, regardless of race or previous slavery status. The Act aimed to protect the civil rights of African Americans, counteract Southern Black Codes, and ensure equal rights following the 13th Amendment. 

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866

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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