This U.S. President appointed Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court?
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
100
He was the first man to discover the North Pole?
Who is Matthew Henson?
100
He was born Cassius Clay but changed his name after he joined the Nation of Islam.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
100
This is the number of Black Greek lettered organizations that currently part of the "Century Club." (Organizations that have celebrated 100 years)
What is 5?
200
This is the U.S. Supreme Court decision that declared segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka 1954?
200
He was the first Black American to be a vice presidential candidate at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Who is Julian Bond?
200
The name of the first all Black Medical school?
What is Meharry Medical School?
200
This major recording company was founded by Berry Gordy, Jr., in 1959?
What is Motown Records?
200
This Omega Man was good friends with Thurgood Marshall when they attended Lincoln University and is known as the Leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
300
November 1, 1945 was the date this well known black magazine went on sale.
What is Ebony?
300
In 1983, this minister announced his candidacy for president of the Democratic Party.
Who is Jesse Jackson?
300
This inventor discovered over 300 uses for the peanut.
Who is George Washington Carver?
300
This black actor costarred in the movies Boyz N The Hood as Furious Styles & in The Matrix as Morpheus.
Who is Laurence Fishburne?
300
One of the first acts by this newly established Sorority was to participate in a 1913 Washington, D.C., suffrage march.
What is Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc?
400
These two men's birthdays are the inspiration behind Carter Woodson choosing February as the month to celebrate Negro History Week.
Who are Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln?
400
In 1983, he became the first black mayor of Chicago, Illinois?
Who is Harold Washington, Jr.
400
Benjamin Banneker published this for farmers which became the first scientific book published by a Black American.
What is the Farmers' Almanac?
400
He was the youngest boxer to win the heavyweight title?
Who is Mike Tyson?
400
Sigma Gamma Rho and Zeta Phi Beta Sororities both have these as auxiliary organizations for women who aren't members but who want to help the sororities as friends.
What are Philos and Amicae?
500
This was founded as the nation's first Black-owned and operated newspaper with John Russwurm and the Reverend Samuel Cornish as its editors.
What is The Freedom Journal?
500
This 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation in its “separate but equal” doctrine?
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
500
Dr. Mae Jemison was the first female black astronaut. This is the name of the space shuttle that took her and her crew members into space in 1992.
What is the Endeavor?
500
On October 26, 1951, this boxer was knocked out Rocky Marciano in his final professional boxing fight?
Who is Joe Louis?
500
The late Kappa Whitman Mayo, who was better known to Sanford & Son fans as this character.