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Who was an African American mathematician who calculated the paths for spacecraft to orbit Earth during her time working for NASA from 1953 to 1986?

Who is Katherine Johnson

100

Who was the abolitionist, suffragist, and activist who escaped slavery and helped many enslaved people to freedom that said "I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other"? 

Who is Harriet Tubman

100
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
100
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
100

Who worked to expand voting rights for African Americans and founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)?




Who is Fannie Lou Hamer

200
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
200

Who was the founder of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in 1881, now called Tuskegee University, that said "The most complete development of each human being can come only through his being permitted to exercise the most complete freedom compatible with the freedom of others"?

Who is Booker T. Washington

200
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
200

What was the name of the organization founded by W.E.B. Dubois, Ida B. Wells, Henry Moskowitz and other members of an interracial group of activists?

What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

200

Who is the most-awarded Grammy-winning artist in history, with a total of 35 trophies, who also became the first African American woman to win the Grammy for Best Country Album for Cowboy Carter in 2025?

Who is Beyoncé Knowles

300

Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?

Who is Booker T. Washington

300

Who is an African American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist that said "Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better"?

Who is Maya Angelou

300
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
300
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
300

Who became the first African American female millionaire with her enterprising black hair products?

Who is Madame CJ Walker

400
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
400

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

400

Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?

Who is Shirley Chisholm

400

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.

400
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
500
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619
500

Who was the African American journalist and activist who fought for an end to lynching and for women's suffrage that said "The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them."?

Who is Ida B. Wells

500

Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?

Who is Barack Obama

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Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
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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
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