"Injustice everywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
100
Who was the first African-American president of the United States?
Barack Obama
100
Who was the first African-American to gain nomination for the general election from the Democratic Party?
Barack Obama
100
What author received the
National Book Award in
1952 for his book entitled
Invisible Man?
Ralph Ellison
100
What was the amendment to the constitution that gave African-Americans the right to vote?
The 15th Amendment
200
“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he
did at twenty has wasted
thirty years of his life.”
Muhammad Ali
200
Who was the first Black
U.S. congresswoman for the
deep south who gained
national fame for her
eloquent defense of the U.S.
Constitution during the
Nixon Hearing?
Barbara Jordan
200
Who was the first African American woman in Congress and ran for president in 1972?
Shirley Chisolm
200
Which author received a special Pulitzer prize for
his novel “Roots?”
Alex Haley
200
What is the name of the African civil rights activist who spent 27 years in prison only to become the nation's first non-white African president?
Nelson Mandela
300
"You're either part of the solution or part of the problem."
Leroy Cleaver
300
Who was the first African-American U.S. senator?
Hiram Revels
300
Who was the first African American woman in space?
Mae C. Jemison
300
Who is the self-proclaimed “Architect, Creator, Emancipator, Inventor, Originator and King of
Rock and Roll?”
Little Richard
300
Who is regarded as the father of the Black Conscientious Movement in South Africa?
Steven Biko
400
"What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?"
Langston Hughes
400
Who was the first Black
woman to be elected to the
U.S. House of
Representatives in 1968?
Shirley Chisolm
400
What was the first state to abolish slavery?
Pennsylvannia
400
Who was the first
African-American to win
two Oscars, one for best
actor and the other for
best supporting actor?
Denzel Washington
400
broke Babe Ruth's home run record when he hit his 715th home run in 1974. He set a Major League record with 755 home runs in his career.
Hank Aaron
500
"I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow, but to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
500
In 1963, who was sworn in
as the first Black Mayor of
Cleveland, Ohio?
Carl Stokes
500
In 1997, what man became
the first person to hold all
four professional major golf
championships at the same
time?
Tiger Woods
500
Who was the first African-
American to win the Nobel
Prize in Literature?
Toni Morrison
500
Who established the first sociology department in the U.S.?