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100
He was the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball.  
Who is Jackie Robinson?  
100
She made a fortune on her specialized beauty product. 
Who is Madame C.J. Walker?  
100
These three women helped NASA through the Space Race in 1961.  
Who is Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson?  
100
He is a mathematician who was referred to as the "negro genius" upon entering into a university at the age of 13.  
Who is Jesse Ernest Walker Jr.  
100

She was the first African-American woman to go outer space on a flight mission.  

Who is Mae C. Jemison?
200
He was the first African-American to be awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize.  
Who is Ralph Bunche?  
200
He invented the Super Soaker?  
Who is Lonnie Johnson?
200
An award given to outstanding African-American authors and illustrators.  
What is the Coretta Scott King Award? 
200
She was the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D in mathematics.  
Who is Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes?  
200
She was the first African-American to get a Ph.D in natural science.  
Who is Ruth Ella Moore?  
300
The highest-rated TV talk show in history that was hosted by an African-American?  
What is the Oprah Winfrey Show?  
300
He invented the automatic elevator door.
Who is Alexander Miles? 
300
An African-American Surgeon who performed the first successful separation of conjoined twins.  
Who is Ben Carson? 
300
He established the Mathematics Graduate Program at Howard University. 
Who is Dudley Weldon Woodard?  
300
She was the first African-American woman to get a degree from M.I.T.  
Who is Shirley Ann Jackson?  
400
He opened the first interracial hospital. 
Who is Daniel Hale Williams?  
400
He co-invented the personal computer. 
Who is Mark Dean?  
400
A landmark verdict that reversed the "Separate but Equal" verdict that was established by a court after the Plessy vs. Ferguson case.  
What is the Brown vs. Board of Education? 
400
He was a mathematician and the first African-American to attend John Hopkins University.  
Who is Kelly Miller?  
400
She was the first African-American woman to get a doctorate degree in zoology.  
Who is Roger Arliner Young?  
500
He starred on The Today Show and was the first African-American to work on a major network.  
Who is Bryant Gumbel?  
500
She invented the Laserphaco Probe.
Who is Dr. Patricia Bath?  
500
An event that celebrates African-American in arts and African-Americans who used their creative endeavors to speak on social justice issues.  
What is the NAACP Image Awards?  
500
He was the first African-American to teach at a predominantly white college.  
Who is Charles Lewis Reason?  
500
He was the only African-American to be apart of Thomas Edison's engineering laboratory.  
Who is Lewis Howard Latimer?
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