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First African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.
Who is Tiger Woods?
"I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger."
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Her refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama busing system from 1955-1956.
Who is Rosa Parks?
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?
He was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?
"The time is always right to do what is right."
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property, and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford case?
The name of the organization lead by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What is The Southern Christian Leadership Conference(SCLC)?
She is one of the world's best-selling recording artists having sold 118 million records worldwide.
Who is Beyonce Knowles?
The first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp issued in 1940.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
"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?
This Supreme Court case advanced the 'separate but equal' doctrine to assess racial segregation laws in 1896.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
He 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?
Sarah Breedlove became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products. But she is better known by this surname/
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
She became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Beloved" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison?
"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?
She was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
I was a graduate from Antioch College in Ohio, and enrolled at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, when I met and married my husband who was attending Boston University in 1953.
Who is Coretta Scott King?
American professional tennis player who won three Grand Slam singles titles. He was the first black player selected to the United States Davis Cup team and the only black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open.
Who was Arthur Ashe?
Year the first enslaved Africans were brought to America via the Middle Trans-Atlantic Passage.
What is 1518?
"I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
Who is Morgan Freeman?
I was elected president of the United States in 2008.
Who is BARACK OBAMA!!!!!
The name of the Alabama church where a racially motivated attack caused the death of four girls in 1963?
What is the 16th Street Baptist Church?
I am known for my 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?