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100

Name the landmark civil rights legislation that ended segregation in public schools in America.

What is Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, KS

100

Name the contribution of Duke Ellington

What is composer, pianist, and bandleader.

100

Name the contribution of Langston Hughes

What is poet, novelist, playwright 

100

Who were the Freedom Riders

What are black and white student volunteers in 1961 who dared to test out integration laws on interstate transportation
100

The first African American Woman to win the us Open Tennis Championship

Who is Althea Gibson

200

Explain the "Separate but equal" ruling of the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson

Segregation is legal as long as there are equal facilities and services available to black people

200

Name the contribution of Romare Bearden

What is Visual artist known for revolutionary collage art
200

This is the name given to an African American cultural awakening in the north, for music and literature

What is the Harlem Renaissance

200

Who was the found of the Congress of Racial Equality

Who is James Farmer
200

This black woman had polio as a child and went on to win five Olympic gold medals in track and field

Who is Wilma Rudolph

300

Identify a main point of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

What is prohibits any state from denying any citizen the right to vote.

300

This actress was the first African American to win an Oscar 

Who is Hattie McDaniel

300

This Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved was the first African American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Who is Toni Morrison

300

What does the Civil Rights Act of 1965 prohibit

What is discrimination; based on race, color, religion or national origin
300

This basketball legend, a six-time NBA champion, became the first former NBA player to become the majority owner of a league franchise when he purchased the Charlotte Hornets in 2010.

Who is Michael Jordan

400

Name the main civil and legal protections guaranteed by the 14th Amendment

All men born in the US are citizens entitled to due process and equal protection of the law.

400

What film was she a cast member

What is Gone with the Wind

400

This author wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, a story about her own life and growing up with courage.

Who is Maya Angelou?

400

What happened in Selma, Alabama known as Bloody Sunday

Black voters were violently beaten by Selma polic
400

At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, this track and field star won four gold medals, shattering Adolf Hitler’s vision of Aryan supremacy.

Who is Jessie Owens

500

This name was given to discriminatory law in the south from 1876-1964

What is Jim Crow

500
Duke Ellington is responsible for making what type of music popular

What is jazz?

500
This literary art form is credited to Langston Hughes

What is jazz poetry

500

This man was the first black man appointed to the Supreme Court

Who is Thurgood Marshall

500

In 2016, this NFL quarterback sparked a national conversation on racial injustice when he began kneeling during the national anthem.

Who is Colin Kaepernick?

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