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Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman
The first African American to be elected President of the United States.
Who is Barack Hussein Obama
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks
Known for developing hair products. This woman was the first African American millionaire.
Who is Madam CJ Walker
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
This doctor developed a technique for the long-term preservation of blood plasma.
Who is Dr. Charles Drew
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington
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
This man was the first African American to on the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
He invented the traffic signal and also the gas mask used by firemen in the early 1900's.
Who is Garrett A Morgan
Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
Who is Toni Morrison
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
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
In what city did the National Guard try to prevent nine black students from attending a segregated school in 1957?
Where is Little Rock, Ark.
An agricultural chemist, this man discovered 300 uses for peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619
Who said "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."?
Who is Langston Hughes
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
This activist group was formed in Oakland, California. They were lead by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
Who are the Black Panthers
This man invented the Super Soaker Water Gun.
Who is Lonnie Johnson