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When is Martin Luther King's Birthday?
Double Jeopardy if you can tell me the year
What is January 15th, 1929
100
This 1963 march brought over 250,000 people together in support of human civil rights and is where Martin Luther King Jr gave his now iconic "I Have a Dream" speech
What is the March on Washington
100
First Black woman to enter space
Who is Mae Jemison?
100
Invented the gas mask and the 1st traffic signal
Who is Garrett Morgan ?
100
Who is the first black Disney princess?
Who is Tiana
200
The first African American to play in the MLB.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
200
This Constitutional Amendment gave Blacks equal protection under the law....
What is the 14th amendment
200
He won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany.
Who is Jesse Owens
200
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman
200
What does the being aware of current affairs mean?
Hint: Slang
What is woke?
300
First African American to hold a seat on the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
300
What year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
What is 1863?
300
The first African American actress to win an Academy Award for best actress.
Who is Halle Berry
300
Booker T. Washington was the founder and president of what educational institution?
Tuskegee Institute
300
What song makes family "Get Funky" on the dance floor?
What is the Cha Cha Slide
400
This 6 year old is responsible for desegregating schools in 1960. 
Who is Ruby Bridges?
400
This case resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that no black-free or slave could be a US citizen?
What is the Dred Scott case?
400
This black hair entrepreneur invented the hot comb.
Who is Madame CJ Walker
400
The first black woman to own a TV studio.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
400
What is another slang term for being shocked or extremely surprised?
What is shook
500
Finish this quote "Float Like a butterfly..."
What is "Sting like a bee"
500
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
Hint: Answer is in the question
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
500
Who wrote Lift Every Voice and Sing, The Negro National Anthem?
Who is James Weldon Johnson
500
Who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise, I rise, I rise."
Who is Maya Angelou
500
Which fourteen-year-old African American boy was severely disfigured and lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
600
Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods
600
The first group of students integrated a high school located in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
600
Who wrote the bestselling memoir “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”?
Who is Maya Angelou
600
What was the first Black-owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange?
What is BET Black Entertainment Television?
600
This is what HBCU stand for.
What is "Historically Black College and University?"
700
He started a Muslim newspaper with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Muhammad Speaks. Also, well known for the slogan "By Any Means Necessary"...
Who is Malcom X
700
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
700
Which person was born in Massachusetts, was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D from Harvard and wrote 'Souls of Black Folk'?
Who is W.E.B. DuBois
700
Which famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?
Who is Muhammad Ali
700
What is the first historically Black University?
What is Howard University
800
Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye"
Who is Toni Morrison?
800
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
800
In 1959 he founded the Motown Record corporation, the first recording home of The Temptations, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Smoky Robinson, and Stevie Wonder...
Who is Berry Gordy Jr.?
800
Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African American admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
Who is George Washington Carver?
800
What must happen to chicken after it is bought, but before it is cooked.
What is washed or cleaned
900
He started the "Back to Africa Movement" and was later deported back to his homeland in Jamaica.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
900
In America, slaves used this hairstyle as a map on their journey to freedom.
What are cornrows?
900
Known for their Gospel hit with the lyrics "take the shackles off my feet so I can dance"
Who is Mary Mary?
900
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American History."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
900
What's my name and favorite color?
Kiara and Green
1000
During her run for president, three separate assassination attempts were made this candidate...
Who is Shirley Chisholm
1000
When did the celebration of Black History Month begin and how long did it last?
What is 1926 and a week
1000
This 1956 autobiography entitled "Lady Sings The Blues", is based on this singer's life
Who is Billie Holiday?
1000
Who founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to train black teachers?
Who is Booker T. Washington
1000
NAACP stands for this
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
