African American First
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African Americans in Government
Civil Rights Movement
Bet'not
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He was the first African American to win a Nobel Peace Prize?

Who is Ralph Bunche?

100
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman
100
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
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

Your Mama will say this if you crying about something that you know you shouldn't have done.

What is "You bet'not be crying, stop all that crying before I give you something to cry about"?

200
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
200

Who said "In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.” 

Who is Thurgood Marshall?

200
He was the first African American to serve in Congress as a Republican Senator.

Who is Hiram Revels, that represented the State of Mississippi?

200

Who said, "“If there is no struggle, there is no progress?” 

Who is Frederick Douglas?

200

Mama can we stop at McDonald's?

What is "You bet'not be asking about no fast food. Do you got McDonald's money?"

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
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

You end up in the office at school for a fight.  Your parent comes in and you have a knot on your head and the other student doesn't have any bruises?

What is "You bet'not have let them hit you first and didn't hit them back?"

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
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
400

She was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?

Who is Shirley Chisholm

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

Someone is yelling Black Lives Matter!

What is "You Bet'not say All Lives Matter whenever someone says Black Lives Matter?"

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

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 to serve as US Secretary of commerce?

Who is Ron Brown?

500
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
500

We should march anywhere we want in America about the injustice and mistreatment of Black people.

What is "You Bet'not march without a permit, insurance, and security in America!"

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