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Famous African Americans
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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
Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?
Who is BARACK OBAMA!!!!!
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
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
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
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
200

What is the name of the Supreme Court Case that deemed banning interracial marriage unconstitutional?

Loving V. Virginia

200

Why is Black History Month scheduled for February?

To celebrate two abolitionist leaders' birthdays: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

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 “You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” 

Malcolm X

300
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
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 “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

Booker T. Washington

400
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
400

What is the theme of Black History Month 2020?

African Americans and the Vote

(100th anniversary of 19th amendment and 150th anniversary of 16th amendment)

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Who was the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court?

Thurgood Marshall

500

What year was Black History Month officially established?

1976

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Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
500
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
500

Who is considered the father of the Environmental Justice movement?

Dr. Robert Bullard

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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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