The organization founded by Moorefield Storey, Mary White Ovington, and W.E.B. DuBois in 1909
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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He was elected as the first African American President of the United States in 2008
Who is Barack Obama?
100
She was the first African American woman to be elected to Congress, (1968) and the first on the ballot as a candidate for President of the United States for the Democratic Party (1972)
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
100
He made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990
Who is George Washington Carver?
100
She is ranked as the best-selling African-American female artist with record sales of over 200 million copies
Who is Mariah Carey?
200
He was 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?
200
This author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature with works including "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye"
Who is Toni Morrison?
200
This Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford? (1857)
200
In this year, the first Africans were brought to America to work as slaves
What is 1619?
200
She was the first African-American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in American Ballet Theater's (ABT) 75-year history
Who is Misty Copeland?
300
This racially motivated attach on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama in 1963
What is the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing?
300
She became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
300
This Civil Rights decision by the Supreme Court invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage
What is Loving v Virginia (1967)?
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This fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi in 1955
Who is Emmet Till?
300
Who said, "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise."?
Who is Maya Angelou - Author of the Poem Still I Rise?
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Her refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956
Who is Rosa Parks?
400
He was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State
Who is Colin Powell?
400
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated
What is Brown v Board of Education (1954)?
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Who said, "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
400
He became the first black billionaire in 2001, owner of Black Entertainment Television (BET)?
Who is Robert Johnson?
500
He was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
500
He was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp
Who is Booker T. Washington?
500
This Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"
What is Plessy v Ferguson (1896)?
500
Who said, "I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger"?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
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In 1961, he became the 1st African American player to win a PGA Tour Card. That year, the PGA of America removed its "Caucasian-only" clause.