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What did George Washington Carver use to develop shaving cream, paper, ink, rubbing oil, synthetic rubber, and instant coffee?
Peanuts
Which 1964 act declared that people must be treated fairly, no matter the color of their skin?
Civil Rights Act
What is the spiritual that was used as a code for escape to freedom?
Go Down, Moses
Who wrote the book Roots?
Alex Haley
Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?
Jackie Robinson
What year was Rosa Parks Arrested?
1955
What year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery
1865
What was the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s father's church?
Ebenezer Baptist
Who was the African American boy , who was murdered at the age of 14 in Mississippi by J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant
Emmett Till
Who were the black soldiers that were trained to be pilots in WWII?
Tuskegee Airmen
Where is Meharry Medical College located?
Nashville, Tennessee
The first Black History Month celebration in the U.S. took place when?
1970
What was the nickname given to Harriett Tubman because of her efforts to free the slaves?
Moses
Who was the first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
Who played the role of Celie in the movie version of Alice Walker‟s best-selling book, The Color Purple ?
Whoopi Goldberg
What law prohibited slavery north and west of the 36-30 parallel within the Louisiana Territory?
Missouri Compromise
The novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in what year?
1852
What former slave became a famous abolitionist and a Methodist preacher?
Sojourner Truth
What is the name of the group of African-American college students who staged a sit-in at Woolworth's In 1960?
The Greensboro four
Who said "If not us, then who? If not now, then when?"
John Lewis
In 1909 W.E.B. Du Bois co-founded what national organization?
NAACP
Who wrote the bestselling memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
Maya Angelou
Richard Allen, a former slave turned ordained minister, was the founder of which denomination?
AME Zion
Who worked along side Thomas Edison in the development of the light bulb?
Lewis Latimer
What was Muhammad Ali's original name?
Cassius Clay