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100
Who, after escaping slavery, made 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known collectively as the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
100
Who invented the idea of Crop Rotation and is often accidentally credited with inventing Peanut Butter?
George Washington Carver
100
Chaired as the father of the Civil Rights movement in America.
Martin Luther King Jr.
100
3rd Monday in January. Meant to memorialize and remember the life of a major African American civil rights leader by celebrating their birthday.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
100
Who has the most Grammys of all time?
(Extra 100 pts if you can tell me the exact number they have won)
Beyonce - 32 Grammys
200
Who broke race barriers by being invited to work on calculating the trajectory for America's first space trip with Alan Shepherd's 1961 mission, an early step toward a Moon landing? (They were the inspiration for the story Hidden Figures)
Katherine Johnson
200
Who is credited for inventing the Potato Chip?
George Crum
200
Civil Rights activist who chose to not give up their seat in the front of the colored section of the bus. Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa Parks
200
June 19th. A commemoration of the day when the final 250,000 slaves in the state of Texas, which became the last hold for slavery during the final days of the Civil War, were declared free by the U.S. Army
Juneteenth
200
Who is the most decorated gymnast in history?
Simone Biles
300
Who was the first black Oscar winner?
(Bonus 100 pts if you can tell me what movie they won for)
Hattie McDaniel - Gone With the Wind
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300
Who invented the Three Light Stop Light?
Garrett Morgan
300
A group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957, which would lead to the school officially being desegregated. The National Guard and President needed to be involved in forcing the Arkansas government to allow the students to go to school.
Little Rock Nine
300
April 15th. The day of this groundbreaking MLB players' opening game of their first season in the MLB.
Jackie Robinson Day
300
What was the name of the landmark Supreme Court case that ruled segregation in public schools unconstitutional and coined the phrase "separate but equal is not equal"?
Brown vs. the Board of Education
400
Who was the first black Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
400
Who is often credited with inventing rock 'n roll?
Chuck Berry
400
The first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960.
Ruby Bridges
400
December 26 - January 1st. An annual celebration of African American culture.
Kwanzaa
400
Who are the two wealthiest black entertainers?
Oprah Winfrey and Jay-Z
500
Who was the first black female pilot?
Bessie Coleman
500
Who invented the Super Soaker water gun?
Lonnie Johnson
500
Once called "the Socrates of the civil rights movement," this Civil Rights leader did not head an organization. He was known as "an intellectual engineer behind the scenes," and the success of the March on Washington was largely due to his planning.
Bayard Rustin
500
June 12th. The anniversary of the 1967 United States Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia which struck down all anti-miscegenation laws remaining in sixteen U.S. states.
Loving Day
500
What was the major African American/Black art and culture movement that emerged in 1920s and 30s in New York?
Harlem Renaissance
