African American First
Misc.
African Americans in Government
Civil Rights Movement
Famous African Americans
100
What was the first African American owned and operated newspaper?
What is Freedom's Journal?
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 Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks
100
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.
Who is Muhammad Ali
200
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
200
Name 4 African Americans with a star on the Hollywood walk of fame
Who is Muhammad Ali, Halle Berry, James Brown, Diddy, Bill Cosby, Jamie Foxx, Aretha Franklin, Morgan Freeman, Marvin Gaye, Billie Holiday, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder, Queen Latifah.. 120+
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
Who was the African American woman who was instrumental in organizing Mississippi's Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
200
Who is the well renowned African American poet, educator, leader and historian who was the first AA to receive a doctoral degree from Harvard? Also one of the founders of NAACP?
Who is Dr. William Edward Burghardt DuBois
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
Who is the Black nationalist and Pan-African theorist who encouraged Black migration back to Africa?
Who is Marcus Garvey?
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
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
400
What was the nickname for the all Black 332d Fighter Group of the U.S Army Air Corps which escorted Allie Bombers through European airspace during World War II?
Who is Tuskegee Airmen?
400
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for ALLEGEDLY whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
500
Where was the first "sit in" at a segregated lunch counter? Hint: NOT Mississippi
What is Greensboro, North Carolina
500
Before it became Black History Month what was the observance of Black History called?
What is Negro History Week?
500
In what year was the NAACP founded
What is 1909?
500
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four little girls?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
500
Quote: "What happens to a dream deferred?/ Does it dry up/ like a raisin in the sun?"
Who is Langston Hughes?
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