True or False: Before Coretta Scott King married Martin, she was an accomplished singer and violinist.
True
100
Who led the March on Washington in 1963?
Martin Luther King Jr.
100
Who was the first black man to play Major League Baseball?
Jackie Robinson
100
Who was the first black president?
Barack Obama
100
What scientist is best known for his inventions with the main ingredient being peanuts?
George Washington Carver
200
What famous poet rose to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance? He's noted for his famous poems such as, "Let America Be America Again" and "Dreams".
Langston Hughes
200
Who was given the title "Black Moses?" because of her leading slaves from plantations and transporting them to freedom using the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
200
Who was the first and only basketball player to score 100 points in a game?
Wilt Chamberlain
200
Brown v. Board of Education was a major court case that helped to desegregate schools throughout the nation. Who was the lawyer that won this case?
Thurgood Marshall
200
What black woman is famous for her invention of hair care products that made her the first black millionaire ever?
Madam C.J Walker
300
What song first performed by Billie Holiday, stood as a metaphor comparing fruit on a tree to victims of lynching in the south?
Strange Fruit
300
Who coined the term "Black Power"?
Stokely Carmicheal
300
Who started and organized the first black baseball league?
Andrew "Rube" Foster
300
How many assassination attempts did Shirley Chisholm survive during her campaign for the 1972 Democratic nomination for the U. S Presidency?
Three
300
What did Garrett Morgan create that is still being used today?
The traffic signal
400
What famous vocalist was helped by Marilyn Monroe to perform at her first all white club? She was also the first woman to ever win a Grammy.
Ella Fitzgerald
400
Who said, "I am no longer accepting the things I can't change. I am changing the things I can not accept."?
Angela Davis
400
Who was the first black man to win the men's singles at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open?
Arthur Ashe
400
Who was the first black attorney general of the United States?
Eric Holder
400
Who was the first black woman to travel in space?
Mae Jemison
500
What is the name of the play written by Lorraine Hansberry that inspired Nina Simone's song "Young Gifted and Black"?
Young, Gifted, and Black
500
Who were the two founders of The Black Panther Party?
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
500
Super Bowl XLI was a historic game because it was the first Super Bowl to feature two black head coaches. Who were they?
Lovie Smith and Tony Dungy
500
Who is the woman who helped to advise presidents such as Herbert Hoover, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt? She was also a close friend to Eleanor Roosevelt.