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The first African American golfer to win a Professional Golf Association (PGA) sanctioned event.
Who is Pete Brown? (1964)
This African American said "I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger".
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
She refused to give up her seat on a public bus and sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
An American Engineer, Physician & former NASA Astronaut who became the first Black woman to travel into space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor.
Who is Mae C. Jemison?
The first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?
This individual said "Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew".
Who is Cicely Tyson?
This Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
The name of the organization founded in 1909 by W.E.B Du Bois, Ida B. Wells & others.
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
An American Politician, Statesman, Civil Rights Activist and Leader who coined the phrase "Good Trouble".
Who is the Honorable John Lewis?
The first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This person 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?
This Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
He 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?
Became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair care products.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
This author was 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?
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?
The first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for U. S. President.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
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.?
Perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track & field who won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympic Games.
Who is James (Jesse) Cleveland Owens?
This was the year when the first Africans were brought to American to work as slaves.
What is 1619?
This individual said "Success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives."
Who is First Lady Michelle Obama?
This African American was elected President of the United States in 2008.
Who is PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA?
A racially motivated attack that caused the death of four little girls in Alabama.
What is the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama?
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?