Who was the first African American woman to win the academy award for best actress?
100
George Washington Carver
Who was the first to discover 300 uses for peanuts ie. peanut butter?
100
The Civil Rights Movement
What movement in the United States beginning in the 1960's and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish equal rights for all negroes?
100
Omega Psi Phi
Who was the first negro fraternity chartered at the Pennsylvania State University in 1921?
100
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
What does the NAACP stand for?
200
Shirley Chisolm
Who was the first black woman to run for President?
200
Garret A. Morgan
Who invented the gas mask and traffic light?
200
Underground Railroad
What was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by black slaves in the 19th century to escape to free states?
200
1948
What year was the NAACP was organized at the Penn State Campus?
200
February 12, 1909
What date was the NAACP founded?
300
Madame C.J. Walker
Who was the first black woman to become a millionaire?
300
Dr. Charles Drew
Who revolutionized the understanding of blood plasma leading to the invention of blood banks?
300
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
What was a political social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system in Alabama?
300
The Black Wax Museum
What was the name of the museum aiming to display decorated African American figures that was premiered Feb of 2009?
300
Benjamin Jealous
Who is the President CEO of the national NAACP?
400
James E. West
Who was the first to invent a telephone mic?
400
Brown vs Board of Education
What case in the Supreme Court declared that laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional?
400
The Village
In April 2001, this demonstration aimed to promote diversity at Penn State?
400
W.E. B. Dubois, Mary White Ovington, William English Walling, Lillian Wald, Oswald Garrison Villard, Ida B. Wells, Archibald Grimke, Henry Moskowitz ( Daily Double )
What is the name of 5 founders of the NAACP?
500
Mae Jameson
Who was the first black woman astronaut in space?
500
Frederick Mckinley Jones
Who was the first to invent refrigeration systems?
500
The Niagra Movement
What was a call for opposition to racial segregation and disenfranchisement and opposed to policies of accommodation and conciliation promoted by Booker T. Washington? It was also led by W.E. B. Dubois
500
Button- Waller Scholarship
In 1995, this scholarship and fellows program was started to aid minority students in paying for their college education?
500
To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and discrimination