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100
He was the first African-American astronaut in space.
Who is Guion Stewart Bluford Jr.?
100
His 1976 novel, "Roots," traced the history of his family to its early African origins.
Who was Alex Haley?
100
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
What does NAACP stand for?
100
In 1938, Jack and Jill was founded by 20 African-American women in what state?
What was Pennsylvania?
100
The Queen of Soul.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
200
He was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Who was W.E.B. DuBois?
200
Leroy Eldridge Cleaver wrote this collection of essays about his life.
What is "Soul on Ice?"
200
The bus boycott in this Alabama city lasted 382 days.
What is Montgomery?
200
The name of the route slave ships took to the Americas.
What was the Middle Passage?
200
This record company's nickname was "Hitsville USA."
What is Motown Records?
300
This was the year that blacks first competed in the Olympic games.
What was 1904?
300
This famous educator and social reformer expressed his belief in education in his 1901 autobiography "Up from Slavery."
Who was Booker T. Washington?
300
The year that Rosa Parks made her defiant stand against segregation.
What was 1955?
300
He discovered a passage through the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the early 1800s.
Who was James Beckwourth?
300
The singing group that accompanied Gladys Knight.
Who are the Pips?
400
He defeated Jack Johnson to become the first African-American boxing champion of the world.
Who was Tommy Burns?
400
He wrote "Go tell it on the Mountain."
Who was James Baldwin?
400
This civil rights activist coined the phrase "I am somebody."
Who is the Rev. Jessie Jackson?
400
The first black school of nursing was founded at this famous southern college.
What is Spellman College?
400
This jazz legend was famous for "Take the 'A' train."
Who was Duke Ellington?
500
In 2001, she became the first black and the first female president of an Ivy League college.
Who is Ruth J. Simmons?
500
He published his autobiography, "A Fugitive Slave," in 1847.
Who was William Wells Brown?
500
April 4, 1968.
What is the date Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated?
500
The year the United Negro College Fund was chartered.
What was 1944?
500
She sang at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961.
Who was Mahalia Jackson?
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