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 The first African American to be elected to the presidency who served as the 44th president. 

Who is Barack Obama?

100

Singer who was the first female artist inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Who is Aretha Franklin? 

100

Civil rights activist who was the first African-American to graduate from Harvard and who helped found the NAACP

Who is W.E.B. DuBois?

100

Inventor of the traffic signals and gas masks. 

Who is Garrett Morgan?

100

 the first black player in Major League Baseball.

Who is Jackie Robinson?

200

First female self-made millionaire in America.

Who is Madame CJ Walker?

200

First African-American woman to win the Best Actress Oscar.

Who is Halle Barry?

200

U.S. Congressman and civil rights activist who was one of the original thirteen Freedom Riders

Who is John Lewis?

200

He designed an important safety feature for elevators: automatic doors.

Who is ALEXANDER MILES?

200

 It is known as the "New Negro Movement". The most influential movement in African American literary history. Embracing literary, musical, theatrical, and visual arts

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

300

Lawyer who won landmark Brown v. Board of Education case and was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.

Who is Thurgood Marshall?

300

Choreographer and founder of the world-famous Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Who is Alvin Ailey?

300

Educator and politician who was the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Who is Shirley Chisholm?

300

He invented the first wooden clock. 

Who is Benjamin Banneker?

300

The creator of the "Black National Anthem", Lift Every Voice and Sing.

Who is James Weldon Johnson?

400

Abolitionist and women’s rights activist who was one of the first African-American women to win a lawsuit against a white man.

Sojourner Truth

400

First African-American to host a television variety show.

Who is Nat “King” Cole?

400

Political scientist and diplomat who was the rst African-American to win the Nobel Peace Prize

Who is Ralph Bunche?

400

Inventor and physicist who developed the first moon-based space observatory: an ultraviolet camera on Apollo 16.

George Carruthers

400

 the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?

500

Educator and reformer who was the first president of Tuskegee University.

Booker T. Washington 

500

Contralto singer who was the first African-American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House.

Who is Marian Anderson?

500

Civil rights leader during the depression and one of the first African-American Congressmen.

Who is Adam Clayton Powell, Jr?

500

He created the first cartridge video game console.

Who is Gerald A. Lawson?

500

The first Institute for Colored Youth that was founded in 1837. It currently know as the oldest HBCU in the United States. 

What is Cheyney University of Pennsylvania? 

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