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What 1941 landmark Supreme Court ruling required all railroad companies to provide equal accommodations for blacks?
What is Mitchell vs. U.S. Interstate Commerce Act
100
What famous march helped influence the Voting Rights Act, passed in August 1965?
What is the March to Selma
100
What civil rights leader and clergyman organized the Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C.?
Who is Ralph Abernathy
100
This University in Pennsylvania is the first institution of higher education founded for African-Americans. It paved the way for the 104 other historically black colleges, which have produced distinguished alums like Thurgood Marshall and others.
What is Lincoln University
100
In the United States presidential election, 1988, heading the New Alliance Party ticket, she became the first woman and the first African American to achieve ballot access in all fifty states. She received more votes for President in a U.S. general election than any other woman in history.
Who is Lenora Branch Fulani
200
1857; Supreme Court decision that upheld rights of Southern states to maintain slavery, and ruled slaves were not American citizens, and thus not protected by Constitutional rights.
What is Dredd Scott vs. Sanford
200
During Reconstruction (1867-77), congressman Thaddeus Stevens offered what strategy for dealing with freed slaves?
What is to Give each 40 acres and a mule
200
Booker T. Washington was opposed to the founding of what organization?
What is the NAACP
200
On this day in 1865 John S. Rock became the first black lawyer admitted to practice law before the U. S. Supreme Court
What is Feb 1st
200
In addition to being the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives, her eloquent argument for President Nixon's impeachment drew national praise during the Watergate hearings? She also made an rousing keynote address at the Democratic National Convention which helped elect Jimmy Carter to the Presidency?
Who is Barbara Jordan
300
Enacted by Congress in 1793 and 1850, these laws provided for the return of escaped slaves to their owners. The North was lax about enforcing the 1793 law, with irritated the South no end. The 1850 law was tougher and was aimed at eliminating the underground railroad.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law
300
March 5, 1770, this man was killed by British soldiers in the Boston Massacre, a precursor to the American Revolution
Who is Crispus Attucks
300
Who helped form the American Moral Reform Society, which helped blacks acquire farm land and aided runaway slaves in their escape to Canada?
Who is William S. Whipper
300
On Jan 29, 2013, this man made history when he was appointed interim U.S. senator for Massachusetts for John Kerry. It marked the first time in US history that two African Americans fill seats in the Senate. The other is Tim Scott of South Carolina
Who is William "Mo" Cowan
300
Who was elected to Congress in 1944 and became the first congressperson to represent the district of Harlem?
Who is Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
400
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a monumental decision against segregation in public schools in what famous case?
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
400
This radical racist group was is formed in Pulaski, Tennessee, made up of white Confederate veterans; it becomes a paramilitary insurgent group to enforce white supremacy.
What is the Ku Klux Klan
400
Dr. Carter G. Woodson started what organization?
What is the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History
400
In 1977, who became the first African American U.S. ambassador to the United Nations?
What is Andrew Young
400
Name the President who appointed Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court?
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson
500
This decision by the US Supreme Court overturned a judgment convicting an African American law student for trespassing by being in a restaurant in a bus terminal which was "whites only." It held that racial segregation in public transportation was illegal because such segregation violated the Interstate Commerce Act, which broadly forbade discrimination in interstate passenger transportation.
What is Boynton vs. Virginia
500
The ruling of this 1944 U.S. Supreme Court case banned the "white primary" that prevented blacks in the South from voting.
What is Smith vs. Allwright
500
In 1998, this congressman from Oklahoma, became the first African American to be elected to a position of leadership in the Republican Party.
Who is J.C. Watts
500
A California court uphelds the constitutionality of this act, which outlawed a state's usage of affirmative action programs.
What is Proposition 209
500
Who was the first former Black Panther Party member elected to Congress?
Who is Bobby Rush
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