African American Firsts
Quotes
Politics/Government
Civil Rights Movement
Famous People
100

The first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit

Who is Tiger Woods?

100

This man said, "The time is always right to do what is right"

Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?

100

This was the first African American to be elected as president of the U.S. in 2008

Who is Barack Obama?

100

Her refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956

Who is Rosa Parks?

100

This man is the self–proclaimed “greatest boxer of all time”

Who is Muhammad Ali?

200

The first African-American female television host

Who is Oprah Winfrey?

200

Which athlete said, "I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me."

Who is Muhammad Ali?

200

This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

200

This organization was founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples)?

200

This famous singer-songwriter was the lead singer of Destiny's Child

Who is Beyonce?

300

This man was a primary contributor to the Harlem Renaissance

Who is Langston Hughes?

300

Which actor said, "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."

Who is Morgan Freeman?

300

This Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens

What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?

300

The main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's. He won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations

Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?

300

Regarded by many as the NBA's greatest all-time player, this man played 15 seasons in the NBA for the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards

Who is Michael Jordan?

400

This author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula", "Caged Bird" and "The Bluest Eye")

Who is Maya Angelou?

400

This woman said, "I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger"

Who is Harriet Tubman?

400

These laws called for the segregation of blacks and whites

What are Jim Crow Laws?

400

This constitutional amendment outlawed slavery

What is the 13th amendment?

400

This African American athlete won 4 gold medals at the Olympics and was a track star

Who is Jesse Owens?

500

The first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp

Who is Booker T. Washington?

500

This man said, "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man."

Who is Frederick Douglass?

500

This man was the first African American to become a U.S. Supreme Court justice

Who is Thurgood Marshall?

500

Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the steps of this Washington D.C. location

What is the Lincoln Memorial?

500

He was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball

Who is Jackie Robinson?

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