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100
He was an American singer-songwriter, dancer, businessman, and philanthropist. Often referred to by the honorific nickname "King of Pop", his album “Thriller” was one of the best-selling albums of all time.
Who is Michael Jackson?
100
This landmark Supreme Court decision in 1954 that has been described as “the most important American governmental act of any kind since the Emancipation Proclamation.” The Court’s unanimous decision overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine of legally sanctioned discrimination, widely known as Jim Crowe.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
She is an American physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.
Who is Dr. Mae Jemison?
100
He was an American pastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs, and delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech.
Who was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
100
She is an American author and poet. She has published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning more than fifty years, including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Who is Dr. Maya Angelou?
200
He is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer, and much more. He is well known for playing America’s favorite dad, Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable.
Who is Bill Cosby?
200
This 1964 landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
200
He was an American scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor, best known for his research into and promotion of alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes, which also aided nutrition for farm families.He also developed and promoted about 100 products made from peanuts that were useful for the house and farm, including cosmetics, dyes, paints, plastics, gasoline, and nitroglycerin.
Who is Dr. George Washington Carver?
200
He was an African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans.
Who was Malcolm X?
200
He was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor. After graduating from Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
Who was W.E.B DuBois?
300
This was known as a large cultural movement in the 1920s, mostly located in a New York City neighborhood. It can be defined as the evolution of art, music, and literature in the Negro culture.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
In this 1857 landmark Supreme Court case a slave in Missouri, sued for his freedom on the grounds that he had lived for a time in a "free" territory. The Court ruled against him, saying that under the Constitution, he was his master's property.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
300
He was a Jamaican born engineer and headed the team that developed the computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) systems for Boeing, which led the way for airplanes and, eventually, many other products designed entirely through software.
Who is Walt Brathwaite?
300
She was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". Her defiance in standing her ground, when asked to give her seat to a white man, sparked national interest.
Who was Rosa Parks?
300
He was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue" which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue".
Who was Langston Hughes?
400
He was an American baseball player who became the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
400
In 1967 this landmark civil rights Supreme Court decision invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage.
What is Loving v. Virginia?
400
In 1948 he became the first black graduate of the University of California Berkeley College of Engineering. He went on to become the first black engineer for the City of San Francisco, and first black member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Who is Howard P. Grant?
400
She is an American activist known for being the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South. She attended William Frantz Elementary School.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
400
He was an African-American author of sometimes controversial novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially those involving the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. His work helped change race relations in the United States in the mid-20th century. He authored the book, Black Boy.
Who was Richard Wright?
500
It is a music genre that originated at the beginning of the 20th century, arguably earlier, within the African-American communities of the Southern United States. Its African musical basis is evident in its use of blue notes, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation and the swung note.
What is jazz?
500
This is the country’s first and foremost civil and human rights law firm. Founded in 1940 under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall, who subsequently became the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
What is the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund?
500
She’s the first black woman to earn a doctorate in theoretical physics, and the first black woman to head the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. She is a past president (2004) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Currently she is the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She was appointed by President Obama to serve as an advisor of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
Who is Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson?
500
He is an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as a shadow U.S. Senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997.
Who is Reverend Jesse Jackson?
500
She was both the second published African-American poet and first published African-American woman. Born in Senegambia, she was sold into slavery at the age of 7 and transported to North America. She was purchased by the Wheatley family of Boston, who taught her to read and write, and encouraged her poetry when they saw her talent.
Who was Phillis Wheatley?
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