the first African American to serve as the US Secretary of State
Who is Collin Powell?
100
"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?
100
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated
What is Brown Vs Board of Education?
100
refused to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
The original name of the Harlem-Renaissance.
What is the New Negroe movement?
200
author became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature
Who is Toni Morrison?
200
"I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
Who is Morgan Freeman ?
200
Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens
What is Dred Scott Vs Sanford?
200
the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is the NAACP?
200
african american cultural movement of the 1920's and 1930's, which brought about some of the most influential African-American artists, musicians, writers, and dancers.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
African American is credited for performing the first open heart surgery
Who is Daniel Williams?
300
"Judge me not by the color of my skin but the content of my character"
Who is Martin Luther king jr.?
300
Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"
What is Plessy Vs Ferguson?
300
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
He was an American composer, pianist, and big-band leader who wrote "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
Who is Duke Ellington?
400
the first African American in space
Who is Leon Bluford Jr.?
400
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
Who is Maya Angelou?
400
the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
400
This boy's murder is noted as one of the leading events that motivated the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
400
He was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist.
Who is Langston Hughes?
500
the first African American woman to win a grammy
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
500
"Give light and people will find the way."
Who is Ella Baker?
500
the first African American to serve as the US Supreme Court Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
500
A landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.
What is the Voting rights Act of 1965?
500
Black Boy and Native Son were two successful works by this writer