Influential Men in History
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The first black billionaire and founder of Black Entertainment Television.
Who is Bob Johnson?
100
This Amendment freed all slaves in the U.S. on December 18, 1965...
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
The youngest and first African-American to win the Masters Tournament in 1997 for golf and in 2005 was the highest paid athlete earning $87 million...
Who is Tiger Woods?
100
She won the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for the Fiction novel, The Color Purple...
Who is Alice Walker?
100
This city is known as the heart of the Civil Rights Movement and also where four little girls were killed in a bombing at 16th Street Baptist Church...
What is Birmingham, Alabama?
200
The 16th president of the U.S. that issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves in the South on January 1, 1863...
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
Harriet Tubman guided hundreds of slaves to freedom before and during the war on this, she was never captured while rescuing slaves and as she was quoted she "never lost a passenger"...
What is the Underground Railroad?
200
This 28 yr. old became the first African-American player to play in Major League Baseball when he stepped onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers...
Who is Jackie Robinson?
200
The author of major works such as The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965),and Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976)...
Who is Alex Haley?
200
This city is where a former all-white high school is integrated with 9 black students despite racial tension...
What is Little Rock, Arkansas?
300
He launched an abolitionist newspaper The North Star and escaped from slavery in 1838 by posing as a free black seaman on a train ride to the north. He became an infamous speaker on the abolitionist lecture circuit and an important political figure. He served as president of the Freedman's Savings Bank during Reconstruction...
Who is Frederick Douglass?
300
The Supreme Court decided in this case that "separate but equal" satisfies the 14th amendment which gives legal sanction to "Jim Crow" segregation laws...
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
300
Was the first basketball player to score 100 points in a single game during the 1961 season and the first player in the NBA to score 30,000 points...
Who is Wilt Chamberlain?
300
This author is best known for "Their Eyes Were Watching God" (1937), a novel about a woman, Janie discovering her independence in Southern Florida.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
300
This is the place where four African American students, Ezell A. Blair Jr., David Leinhail Richmond, Joseph Alfred McNeil, and Franklin Eugene McCain sat at a segregated lunch counter in a Woolworth's store. This lunch counter only had chairs/stools for whites, while blacks had to stand and eat their food...
What is Greensboro,North Carolina?
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