African American First
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African Americans & Government
Civil Rights Movement
Famous African Americans
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He was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.
Who is Tiger Woods?
100
She famously said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger', when asked about events of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
This is the Supreme Court decision that decreed public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
She refused to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, 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
He was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?
200
Being a pastor, and believing in peace, he said "The time is always right to do what is right".
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
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 organization was founded in 1909, by Moorfield Storey, Mary White Ovington and W.E.B. Du Bois.
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
200
She 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
He was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
In her poem she is quoted "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". (Hint: Separate but Equal)
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
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?
300
She became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
400
Born in Georgia, he became the first African-American military pilot; however, he did not fly in WWI for the Americans.
Who is Eugene James Bullard? Escaped the US in 1906, aboard a vessel, and moved to France. He flew for the French Foreign Legion. 1918-rejected by US military.
400
He is a famous athlete that 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
She was the first African American woman to be on a ballot as a major party candidate for President, in 1972.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
400
He was the main leader 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.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
400
He was a fourteen year old black boy that was lynched for whistling at a white woman. His killers were acquitted.
Who is Emmet Till? 2008 Interview of the widow of his killer, made public in 2017, admitted she fabricated her testimony of his advances on her.
500
This is the year, that the first Africans were brought to America to work as slaves.
What is 1619?
500
This famous actor said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
Who is Morgan Freeman?
500
He is the first African American to be elected as president of the United States in 2008.
Who is Barack Obama?
500
This event was a racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama.
What is the Alabama Church Bombing? (accepted 16th Street Baptist church Bombing, 1963 Birmingham Church Bomb, etc)
500
He made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts, and he 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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