This woman participated in 13 missions and rescued more than 70 slaves from captivity through a network of safe houses known as the “Underground Railroad.”
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
“I left a good job in the city/ working for the man every night and day.”
What is "Proud Mary?" - Tina Turner
100
Otis Boykin, who ironically passed away from heart failure, is credited with inventing a magnetic control unit for this device used to maintain a steady heartbeat.
What is a pacemaker?
100
This woman’s refusal to obey the orders of her bus driver became a national symbol of resistance to racial segregation during the Civil Rights movement.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
In this 1863 speech, Abraham Lincoln stated, “All persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
What is the "Emancipation Proclamation?"
200
This abolitionist, editor of the newspaper "The North Star" and former slave known for his superior intellect and highly regarded autobiographies was the first African American to be nominated to be Vice President of the United States.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
200
“My love has come along/My lonely days are over/And life is like a song”
What is "At Last?" - Etta James
200
This botanical researcher, most famous for his work with the peanut, discovered hundreds of uses for previously unusable fruits and vegetables.
Who is George Washington Carver?
200
This man, who passed away in 1993 and argued the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case was the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
200
When Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States and first African American President, he vacated a United States Senate seat from this state.
What is Illinois?
300
This figure who amassed a fortune through beauty and hair care products is believed to be the first self-made American female millionaire.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
300
“I got love for my brother/ but we can never go nowhere/ unless we share with each other./We gotta start makin' changes/Learn to see me as a brother 'stead of 2 distant strangers”
What is "Changes?" - Tupac Shakur
300
Marie Van Brittan Brown’s 1966 invention of the closed-circuit television system is widely credited as the precursor to these products, sold by companies such as ADT and Slomin’s Shield.
What is the home security system?
300
This man who began as the leader of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and later became the “Honorary Prime Minister” of the Black Panther Party popularized the term “Black Power.”
Who is Stokely Carmichael?
300
This August 28, 1963 gathering of 300,000 people is the second largest civil rights rally in American history.
What is "The March on Washington?"
400
This figure and namesake of the historically black university she founded in Daytona, Florida is famous for promoting access to education for African Americans and for being an advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
400
“And I told you about equality/And it’s true/Either you’re wrong/Or you’re right.”
What is "Black or White?" - Michael Jackson
400
This invention, patented in 1923 by Garrett Augustus Morgan was responsible for a dramatic decrease in automobile accidents and revolutionized road travel as we know it today.
What is the traffic light or signal?
400
This Harvard-educated author, co-founder of the NAACP, and frequent opponent of Booker T. Washington spent his life protesting Jim Crow laws, lynchings, discrimination, and American capitalism.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
400
The 1965 marches from this city to this city, in which demonstrators were attacked by billy clubs and tear gas are regarded as having forced the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
What are Selma and Montgomery?
500
This African American slave's unsuccessful U.S. Supreme Court case, in which he sued his owner for his freedom as a U.S. citizen was eventually overturned by the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th, 14th, and 15th Constitutional Amendments.
Who is Dred Scott?
500
“Till earth and heaven ring/Ring with the harmonies of liberty/Let our rejoicing rise”
What is "Lift Every Voice?"
500
This automobile-based invention, indispensible in cleaning up after Mardi Gras parades is credited to Charles Brooks.
What is the street sweeper?
500
This woman, whose primary mission was to assure that African Americans asserted their right to vote is famous for a fiery speech in which she challenged Missisippi’s all-white delegation to the Democratic National Convention.
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
500
The opinion of this landmark 1967 Supreme Court case recognized a fundamental Constitutional right to marriage and nullified all state laws that prohibited interracial marriage.