He was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods?
100
She 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
Her refusal 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, the self–proclaimed “greatest of all time” was originally 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
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 is the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
What is The Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
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
This was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
She 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
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
This 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
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
She was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President
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
This fourteen year old was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till?
500
In this year the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619?
500
He said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
Who is Morgan Freeman?
500
Barack Obama was a keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and later won a U.S. Senate seat in this state
What is Illinois?
500
This racially motivated attack caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing?
500
He made agricultural advancements and inventions and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990