QUOTES
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
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
What was the name given to the Navy's first African-American officers commissioned in 1944?
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
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
Who is (Ret) FORCM (AW/SW) April D. Beldo
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
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
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
What was the first US Navy Ship named after an African-American?
What is the USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79)
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 first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
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
Who was the highest ranking African-American to serve in the US Navy?
VADM Samuel Lee Gravely Jr.
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?
Who is Barack Obama
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the 1963 Birmingham 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
When did African-Americans begin serving in the US Navy?
What is the Revolutionary War