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Who was the performer that made a political statement speaking up for Black Lives at the 2016 super bowl?
Beyonce
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Who invented the traffic light?
J. P. McKnight
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First woman arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus.
Claudette Colvin
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Who said the famous quote "I am American. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me."
Muhammad Ali
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What was the last state to abolish slavery?
Mississippi in 2013!
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What athlete started the trend of making political statements with his "demonstrations" during the national anthem?
Colin Kaepernick
200
Who is the botanist that created over 100 products with peanuts?
George Washington Carver
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Who was the first black child to radically integrate an all white elementary school in the south?
Ruby Bridges
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Who said the famous quote "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."
Maya Angelou
200
What year was the Civil Rights Act that ended segregation passed?
1964
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The death of which college teacher sparked the hashtag "Say Her Name"? #SayHerName
Sandra Bland
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Who was one of the first Black women to become a billionaire from her many hair product inventions?
Madam C. J. Walker
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Former president of NACW, a high school principal, one of the founding members of the NAACP. Also the daughter of the first black millionaire.
Mary Church Terrell
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Who said the famous quote "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
W.E.B. Du Bois
300
Which Supreme Court case in 1954 kicked off the desegregation of schools?
Brown v. Board
400
What poet recently made the comment “The best thing that could happen to America would be if Trump and Pence were on a plane that crashed and burned.”
Nikki Giovanni
400
Who invented the ironing board?
Sarah Boone
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Who was the first First Lady to hold two degrees from Ivy League colleges?
Michelle Obama
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Who said the famous quote "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
President Barack Obama
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In what year did interracial Marriages become legal as a result of the trial Loving v. Virginia?
1967
500
Name one of the founders of the social justice organization Black Lives Matter.
Alicia Garza Opal Tometi Patrisse Cullers
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Who invented the Pacemaker?
Otis Boykin
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11 year old girl who recently signed a contract with Whole Foods as a result of her lemonade business.
Mikaila Ulmer?
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Who said the famous quote “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
Booker T. Washington
500
Name a country besides the U.S. that celebrates a Black History Month
Canada (celebrated in February) United Kingdom (celebrated in October)
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