This Afro-Dominican actress is most well known for her role in Avatar.
Who is Zoe Saldana
100
This former Secretary of State (2005-2009) was the first black female to hold that position. She also well known for her strong connection to the Bush administration.
Who is Condoleezza Rice
100
The main character of the 2016 movie Race, he won four Track and Field gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin
Who is Jesse Owens
100
What verdict did the U.S. Supreme Court reach in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?
What is segregation in public schools was unconstitutional
100
Who founded the Department of African American Studies at Emory University?
Who is Delores P. Aldridge
200
This country received the largest amount of slaves during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
What is Brazil
200
In 2002, this athlete became the first African-American to be ranked #1 in tennis.
What is Venus Williams
200
This American leader of the Nation of Islam was a contemporary of Martin Luther King Jr. and played a major role in human and black rights activism and was ultimately assassinated for his beliefs:
Who is Malcom X
200
In what year was Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated?
What is 1968
200
In 2016, this Emory professor was recently inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, putting him in the ranks of other Hall of Fame Members including Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, and Ella Fitzgerald.
Who is Dr. Gary Motley
300
Interracial marriage was banned in the United States in 1664. Name the family whose Supreme Court case lifted the marriage ban in 1967.
What is Loving
300
Name the movie that featured the first black Disney Princess.
What is The Princess and the Frog
300
This American poet and civil rights activist who worked with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X, became only the second poet to speak at an American presidential inauguration (Bill Clinton, 1993), is most notable for her 1969 novel I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings:
Who is Maya Angelou
300
Who was the first black Supreme Court Justice?
Who is Thurgood Marshall
300
This Emory professor received the Atlanta Jamaica Association's (AJA) 2016 Black History Month Award. He is a founding member and past president of the AJA, and is currently a professor of Theology and Ethics in the Candler School of Theology.
Who is Dr. Noel Erskine
400
Beginning in 1926 Carter G. Woodson, a notable black scholar and historian created "Negro History Week". In what year was this creation transformed into Black History
What is 1976
400
Name 3 of the 10 historical black colleges/universities found in Georgia.
What is Morehouse College, Spelman College, Albany State College, Clark Atlanta University, Fort Valley State University, Savannah State University
400
Leading the NAACP’s legal assault, this man played a critical role in every Supreme Court case between 1930 and the 1954 landmark Brown v. Board decision. He is one of the nation's greatest strategists and is sometimes referred to as “The Man Who Killed Jim Crow,” by actively testing the “separate by equal” doctrine in the courts.
Who is Charles Hamilton Houston
400
What is the name of the Chicago teen who was brutally lynched in Mississippi in 1955?
Who is Emmett Till
400
Currently Emory’s congressperson, this member of the House of Representatives is the only living member of the “Big Six” leaders of the African-American Civil Rights Movement as the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Who is John Lewis
500
This group constituted the most significant African outside the continent before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. They ruled Spain from the 8th to the 15th century.
What is The Moors of Northwestern Africa
500
In 2016, this person became the first African-American president of a major broadcast TV network.
What is Channing Dungey
500
This Cherokee-African woman reached television fame as Catwoman in the 1960's Batman and her holiday song "Santa Baby". However, she is most famous as an activist and social speaker who was blacklisted from the professional community for her position on the Vietnam War. She is quoted as saying, "You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot," which reportedly caused Lady Bird Johnson to burst into tears.
Who is Eartha Mae Kitt (1927-2008)
500
How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
What is 1 year
500
Which one of Emory's first African-American law school students later introduced legislation that made Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a city holiday?