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An American engineer, physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first Black American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.
Who is Mae Carol Jemison?
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
What was the name of America’s oldest and largest civil rights organization?
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
An American activist that began to sit during the playing of the U.S. national anthem prior to games, rather than stand as is customary, as a protest against racial injustice and systematic oppression in the country.
Who is Colin Kaepernick
Who is the first Black american to win an Oscar for Best Actress only 17 years ago.
Who is Halle Berry
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who was the first Black American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
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
This Black american female won 23 Grammy Awards, making her the 2nd most honored female artist by the Grammys, and the most nominated woman in Grammy Award history with a total of 62 nominations.
Who is Beyonce Knowles
Who was the first Black American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington
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
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
In 1961, 6 white and 7 black American activists leave Washington, D.C. and travel through the rigidly segregated Deep South, with the goal to test Boynton v. Virginia.
Who are the Freedom Riders
First black American to be elected as president of the United States in 2008?
Who is Former President Barack Obama?
Who is the former majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, American entrepreneur, media magnate, executive, philanthropist, investor and first black American billionaire.
Who is Robert L. Johnson
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 Black American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
In 1957, the governor of Arkansas, blocks the integration of Little Rock High School, by using the National Guard to prevent 9 black American students from entering. Which president instructs federal troops to integrate Little Rock High School.
Who is former President Dwight Eisenhower
Which fourteen year old black boy was brutally beaten and lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
He is a retired American politician of the Democratic Party and is known as the longest serving Black American member of Congress.
Who is John Conyers Jr.
In 1956, which racially motivated attack caused the death of four girls?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
Who made several agricultural advancements and inventions and was one of the first Black Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
Who is George Washington Carver