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100

_________ was the first African American to win a Grammy award for Album of the year. 

Stevie Wonder

100

The NAACP is a civil rights organization established to advance justice for African American people. What does NAACP stand for? 

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 

100

This was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its thirteen North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. It also saw many people in America, including slaves, convert to Christianity

The Great Awakening

100

This woman founded a school in Daytona, Florida. It started out as the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in 1904 and is now a university. 

Mary McLeod Bethune

100

Who said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

200

This was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater and politics centered in a neighborhood in New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. 

Harlem Renaissance

200

Fill in the Blank: The Negro Motorist _________ Book was a comprehensive guide for Black travelers about locations across America—and eventually overseas—that were either Black-owned or didn't engage in segregationist practices.

Green

200

This man is believed to have been the one to first bring the message of Jesus Christ to Africa

The Ethiopian Eunuch

200

This man was the first person to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He also was the co-founder of the NAACP. 

W.E.B. Dubois 

200

Who said, "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired"?

Fannie Lou Hammer 

American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and a leader in the civil rights movement

300

This man won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin in the area of track and field.

Jessie Owens

300

This man was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1963 to 1966 and later served as a member of the House of Representatives for the state of Georgia. 

John Lewis 



300

This man, a popular Chicago blues pianist turned gospel songwriter, is believed to be the founder of gospel music

Thomas Dorsey

300

Known as the Hidden Figures, Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson paved the way for black people in science while working for this organization. 

NASA

300

Who said, "We have a wonderful history behind us, and it is going to inspire us to greater achievements."

Hint: He was also considered to be the "father of black history" as he founded Negro History Week, the precursor to Black History Month

Carter G. Woodson

400

This woman was the first black woman to be principal dancer for the American Ballet Theater.

Misty Copeland

400

This amendment to the Constitution made slavery illegal in United States.

13th Amendment

400

As they grew black churches also became the centers of communities, serving as school sites, taking up social welfare functions such as providing for the indigent, and going on to establish orphanages and prison ministries. As a result, black churches were particularly important during the ________ ________ Movement.

Civil Rights

400

This man taught himself astronomy and math to become America's "First Known African American Man of Science". 

Benjamin Banneker 

400

This woman was one of showbiz’s most iconic performers but left the United States due to the overt racism she encountered. She moved to France, renounced her U.S. citizenship and becoming a spy for the French during WWII. During her travels across Europe to perform she would conceal messages within her costumes or her sheet music for other French spies. 

Josephine Baker

500

This woman was the first black woman to win a Grammy in 1959 for her improvised jazz solo.

Ella Fitzgerald

500

This was a political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California with the purpose of empowering black people. 

Black Panther Party

500

The Free African Society was one of the first black church created by what two Methodist preachers?

Absalom Jones and Richard Allen

500

On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its verdict in ________________, ruling unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment’s mandate of equal protection of the laws of the U.S. Constitution to any person within its jurisdiction.

Brown v. Board of Education

500

Who said,
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” 

Langston Hughes

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