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Famous African Americans
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Created special products for African-American hair, then became the first American self-made woman millionaire. 

Who is “Madame CJ Walker”?

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

A common expression which suggests black skin doesn't age or wrinkle. 

What is Black Don’t Crack?

100

In what year did Mae C. Jemison, the first Black woman astronaut, travel to space?

What is "1992"?

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
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

This African American proverb is usually said when someone about to lie. 

What is "See... what had happened was”?

200

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?

300

In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?

What is 1619?

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

Your mama has likely told you she is not one of these.

What is "One of your lil friends" or "Boo Boo the Fool"?

300

A famous soulful singer, who's song "Mississippi Goddam" was banned several months after release.

Who is Nina Simone?

400

This author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye"

Who is Toni Morrison

400

Which famous intellect said "To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time"?

Who is James Baldwin

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

This word has a variety of meanings including: Okay, a wager, "its on sight", conversation over, etc.  

What is "Bet"?

400

What did late rapper Nipsey Hussle teach himself to build from scratch as a child?

What is a computer?

500

First intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established by African Americans at a HBCU, in this case Howard University.

What is Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc.?

500
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
500

He was the first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice.

Who is Thurgood Marshall?

500

One term for talking trash about someone is “throwing” this, like a bel Elm tree might do.

 What is “shade”?

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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