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100

Who was the first African American woman Oscar Winner?

Who is Hattie McDaniel

100

Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?

Who is Harriet Tubman

100

What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?

What is Brown v. Board of Education


100

This show can on Friday night and had a nerd named Steve Urkel?  

What is Family Matters

100

Who was the first African American woman elected to the Oregon State Legislature Assembly?

Who is Margaret Carter

200

Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?

Who is Colin Powell

200

Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?

Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

This family was movin' on up?

Who are the Jeffersons

200

Which Portland native was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1991 and became the first Black woman elected to the Oregon State Senate in 1996?

Who is Avel Gordly

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 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

300

Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?

What is Plessy v. Ferguson


300

R&B Singer Brandy starred in what show?

What is Moesha?

300

Who is the first Black Republican ever to serve in the Oregon Legislative Assembly.

Who is Jackie Winters

400

Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.

Who is Toni Morrison

400

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.


Who is Rosa Parks

400

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

Who is Shirley Chisholm


400

Which show was a spinoff from the show SOAP starring Robert Guillaume?

What is Benson

400

Who was the first African American Rose Festival Queen in Oregon?

Who is Robin Marks

500

In what year were the first Africans brought to America to work as slaves?

What is 1619

500

Ain't I a woman?

Who is Sojourner Truth

500

President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated this man to be the first African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Who is Thurgood Marshall

500

This sitcom starred the Beautiful Diahann Carroll?

What is the show Julia

500

What program started in 1981 as a summer basketball camp for at-risk youth?

What is Self-Enhancement Inc

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