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This female is the most awarded female act of all time and is the only artist to have seven consecutive number ones on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. She also is the first female artist to enter the Billboard 200 album chart at number one and the only artist with seven consecutive multi-platinum albums.
Who is Whitney Houston?
100
This man was the first African American to be elected president, in 2008.
Who is Barrack Obama?
100
This man is considered to be the founding father of jazz and international ambassador of swing. He is also nicknamed "Satchmo".
Who is Louis Armstrong?
100
This man was the first person to successfully seperate cojoined twins and is the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital
Who is Dr. Benjamin Carson?
100
This woman is considered by the US Congress to be "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement" with her famous protest of not giving her seat to a white woman.
Who is Rosa Parks?
200
This female was the first black woman to win the Best Actress award at the Academy Awards in 2001 for her performance in Monster Ball.
Who is Halle Berry?
200
This woman was Security Advisor to the Bush presidency in 2001 and became George W. Bush's second Secretary of State in 2005.
Who is Condoleezza Rice?
200
This woman sang for Barack Obama's inauguartion, was part of the R&B group Destiny's Child, and has sold over 75 million records
Who is Beyonce Knowles?
200
This astrophysicist who earned his doctorate from Columbia University in 1991 hosted the NOVA ScienceNow series from 2006 to 2011
Who is Neil deGrasse Tyson?
200
This man was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. His main method for racial equality was the practice of non-violent protesting and is a national icon in the history of American progressivism.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
300
This man has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption and Invictus and won in 2005 for Million Dollar Baby.. He also played God in Bruce Almighty.
Who is Morgan Freeman?
300
Daily Double!!! This man was the first African American and the youngest person to chair (1989–93) the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the first African American to serve (2001–5) as secretary of state
Who is General Colin Powell?
300
This woman is know to be one of the foremost blues singers of her time with her trademark being being white gardenias she wore on her hair
Who is Billie Holliday?
300
This woman was the first African American woman to become an astronaut in 1992, where she boarded the Endeavor.
Who is Mae C. Jemison?
300
This man is a American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor. He was first African American to earn a doctorate and one of the co-founder leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
Who is W. E. B. DuBois?
400
Throughout his career, this artist has received numerous honors and awards, including the World Music Awards' Best-Selling Pop Male Artist of the Millennium, the American Music Award's Artist of the Century Award and the Bambi Pop Artist of the Millennium Award. He also is the only artist who has had five number one singles from one album, which was later tied with Katy Perry.
Who is Micheal Jackson?
400
This man served as the first African American Senator, hailing from Mississippi and served as a president to a black college.
Who is Hiram Revels?
400
This man is known as "The King of Blues" and made his first appearance on the Tonight Show and in 1971 performed on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Who is B.B. King?
400
Along with Gerhard Sessler, this man invented the foil electret microphone, an inexpensive, compact device that is now used in 90 percent of all contemporary microphones. He also holds over 240 patents
Who is James West?
400
This man was a leader in civil and gay rights and leading activist of the early 1947–1955 civil-rights movement, helping to initiate the 1947 Freedom Bus Ride
Who is Bayard Rustin?
500
This group was one of the biggest hip-hop groups of the 1990’s with their album“The Score.” This album was considered one of the biggest hip-hop albums of all time and it won the group its first two Grammys.
Who are the Fugees?
500
This woman was the first African American woman to serve in the House of Representatives and wrote Unbought and Unbossed (1970) and The Good Fight (1973).
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
500
This woman, born in April 9, 1887, was the first African American woman to have her symphonic compositions used by a leading US orchestra.
Who is Florence Beatrice Price?
500
In 1893, this person opened Provident Hospital, the first medical facility to have an interracial staff. He was also the first physician to successfully complete open-heart surgery on a patient.
Who is Daniel Hale Williams?
500
This woman was an American educator and civil rights leader best known for starting a school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida and was an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Who is Mary Jane McLeod Bethune?
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