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The first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit
Who is Tiger Woods ?
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks
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
The experiences of fugitive slave Reverend Josiah Henson, who escaped to Canada in 1830, were the subject of what famous novel?
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin.
The first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell ?
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Who is Beyonce Knowles
Maroons is the name given to approximately 550 to 600 individuals who lived in Nova Scotia after being deported from this place, only to be later sent to Sierra Leone in 1800?
What is Jamaica.
Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison ?
Who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
Who is Maya Angelou
Who was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
Who is Malcolm X
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker
A plaque near 660 Broadview marks the spot where the house of this man once lived. He was: The first black person on Toronto city council, a key player in the establishment of Toronto Hydro, a successful baker who patented the design of his own oven and a man who was instrumental in convincing the city to purchase the Toronto Islands.
Who is William Peyton Hubbard.
The first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington ?
Which famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?
Who is Muhammad Ali
Who was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
Viola Desmond became Canada's Rosa Parks for?
What is sitting in seating set aside for whites in a movie theatre.
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
Who is George Washington Carver
This former black slave who escaped to Canada and started a farm co-op for runaway enslaved peoples, inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Josiah Henson.