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The first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
a) Jack Nicklaus
b)Tiger Woods
Who is Tiger Woods?
This person said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
a) Harriet Tubman
b) Richard Trevithick
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
a) Brown v. Board of Education
b) Plessy v. Ferguson
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Her refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
a) Thelma Wair
b) Rosa Parks
Who is Rosa Parks?
This amazing man is 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.
a) Muhammad Ali
b) Rocky Balboa
Who is Muhammad Ali?
The first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
a) Kamala Harris
b) Colin Powell
c) Thurgood Marshall
Who is Colin Powell?
He said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
b) Barak Obama
c) John Lewis
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This American politician served in the House of Representatives, was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966, and won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
a) Blanche Bruce
b) John Lewis
c) Raphael Warnock
Who is John Lewis?
The name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others.
a) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
b) Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
c) American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
What is Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
She was ranked as the third greatest woman in music of all time by VH1 in 2012. Among other awards, she has won 24 Grammy Awards and 79 nominations, and a total of 28 Video Music Awards.
a) Rihanna
b) Nicki Minaj
c) Beyonce Knowles
Who is Beyonce Knowles?
The first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
a) Booker T. Washington
b) Langston Hughes
c) Ida Wells
d) W.E.B. Du Bois
Who is Booker T. Washington?
They said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
a) Maya Angelou
b) Langston Hughes
c) Lorraine Hansberry
d) Frederick Douglass
Who is Maya Angelou?
This decision brought an end to the trusty system and flagrant inmate abuse at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Mississippi. It was the first body of law developed in the Fifth Circuit that abolished racial segregation in prisons and held that a variety of forms of corporal punishment against prisoners is considered cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment.
a) Gates v. Collier
b) Brown v. Board of Education 2
c) Batson v. Kentucky
d) Smith v. Allwright
What is Gates v. Collier?
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?
a) Muhammed Ali
b) Malcom X
c) Wallace Fard Muhammad
d) Louis Farrakhan
Who is Malcolm X?
She became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products.
a) Oprah Winfrey
b) Whoopi Goldberg
c) Folorunsho Alakija
d) Madame CJ Walker
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
This author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
a) Toni Morrison
b) Zora Neale Hurston
c) Alice Walker
d) Maya Angelou
Who is Toni Morrison?
This 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."
a) Jackie Robinson
b) Serena Williams
c) Muhammad Ali
d) Jesse Owens
Who is Muhammad Ali?
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
a) Rosa Parks
b) Carol Moseley Braun
c) Shirley Chisholm
d) Kamala Harris
Who is Shirley Chisholm
This was one of the main leaders 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?
a) John Lewis
b) Jimmy Hendrix
c) Malcom X
d) Martin Luther King Jr.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
The first African-American astronaut to make it to space. They were aboard the Challenger space shuttle.
a) Col. Guion S. Bluford Jr.
b) Ronald E. McNair
c) Dr. Mae C. Jemison
d) Victor Glover
Who is Col. Guion S. Bluford Jr.?
In this year, the first Africans brought to the Americas to work as slaves.
When was 1619?
This American political activist and author said "I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
Who is Angela Davis?
This African American was elected president of the United States in 2008.
Who is Barak Obama?
This woman was arrested for not giving up her seat in a Montgomery bus, and went on to be one of the four plaintiffs of the Supreme Court case Browder v. Gayle which ruled that bus segregation is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
They 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.
a) George Washington Carver
b) Garrett Morgan
c) Madam C.J. Walker
d) Lonnie Johnson
e) Patricia Bath
Who is George Washington Carver?