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AFRICAN AMERICANS IN ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
100

This was the first black Greek fraternity for college students founded at Cornell University in 1906.

What is Alpha Phi Alpha, Fraternity, Inc.?

100

She invented a line of African American hair products after suffering from a scalp ailment that resulted in her own hair loss and and was one of the first American women to become a self-made millionaire.

Who is Madam C.J. Walker?

100

In 1947, he became the first black Major League baseball player.

Who is Jackie Robinson?

100

This amendment to the constitution banned slavery.

What is the 13th Amendment?

100

She was the first African-American woman to own her own production company. (Hint: The name of the company is her name spelled backwards.)

Who is Oprah Winfrey?

200

This illustrious organization was the first black Greek sorority and was founded at Howard University in 1908.

What is Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.?

200

His inventions include hundreds of products, including more than 300 from peanuts (milk, plastics, paints, dyes, cosmetics, medicinal oils, soap, ink, wood stains), 118 from sweet potatoes (molasses, postage stamp glue, flour, vinegar and synthetic rubber) and even a type of gasoline.

Who is George Washington Carver?

200

This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.

Who is Muhammad Ali?

200

The 332nd Fighter Group was the first Black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps (AAC), a precursor of the U.S. Air Force, during World War II.

Who were The Tuskegee Airmen?

200

On January 26, 1934, this Harlem theatre opened its doors to African-Americans for the first time, where several talented African-American musicians were discovered including Lena Horne, Sam Cooke, the Orioles, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, and many others.

What is the Apollo?

300

She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960.

Who is Ruby Bridges?

300

He was known as "Black Edison," and registered nearly 60 patents in his lifetime, including a telephone transmitter, a trolley wheel and the multiplex telegraph.

Who is Granville T. Woods?

300

He was the first African-American NFL Coach to win the Super Bowl. (Hint: He was the Indianapolis Colts Coach)

Who is Anthony Kevin Dungy?

300

He was an American civil rights leader and politician best known for leading the march that was halted by police violence on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in 1965, a landmark event in the history of the civil rights movement that became known as “Bloody Sunday.” He was also the first African American lawmaker to lie in state in the rotunda of the U.S. capitol.

Who is John Lewis?

300

In 2015, she became the first African-American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in the American Ballet Theatre's 75-year history.

Who is Misty Copeland?

400

In 1957, this school became the first integrated high school.

What is Little Rock Central High School?

400

He invented the traffic light.

Who is Garrett Morgan?

400

He was a track-and-field athlete who set a world record in the long jump at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin—and went unrivaled for 25 years.

Who is Jesse Owens?

400

In 1963, four young black girls were killed in the racially motivated bombing of this church in Birmingham, Alabama.

What is the 16th Street Baptist Church?

400

In 1991, this network became the first black-controlled television company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. 

What is BET Black Entertainment Television?

500

In 1867, this University began to offer education for Blacks and ex-slaves of all ages.

What is Fisk University?

500

He invented automatic elevator doors in 1887.

Who is Alexander Miles?

500

She became the first African-American woman from any country to win an Olympic Gold Medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

Who is Alice Coachman?

500

During the spring of 1961, white and African-American student activists from this organization launched the Freedom Rides to challenge segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals.

What is the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)?

500

In 1940, she became the first African-American to win an Academy Award for her supporting role in Gone with the Wind.

Who is Hattie McDaniel?

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