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African Americans in Government
Civil Rights Movement
Famous African Americans
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This person was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.
Who is Tiger Woods?
100
This person said, "I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger".
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
This person’s refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
This man is the self-proclaimed “greatest of all time” and was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
200
This person was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?
200
This person said, "a life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives".
Who is Jackie Robinson?
200
This 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 was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
200
This artist 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
This person was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
This person 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
This Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
This person 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
This person became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
400
This author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
Who is Toni Morrison?
400
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."
Who is Muhammad Ali?
400
This person was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
400
This person was one of two founders of the Black Panther Part y for Self Defense.
Who is Huey P. Newton/Bobby Seale?
400
This fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman.
Who is Emmett Till?
500
This African American explorer was the first to reach the North Pole and was the first African American member of The Explorers Club.
Who is Matthew Henson?
500
This person said, "A people without knowledge of their history is like a tree without roots."
Who is Marcus Garvey?
500
This African American was elected president of the United States in 2008.
Who is BARACK OBAMA?
500
This racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama.
What is the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing?
500
This inventor 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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