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Who was the first African American United States President?
Answer: President Obama
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Who was the first African-American female astronaut. In 1992? Hint: she flew into space aboard the Endeavour, becoming the first African-American woman in space.
Answer: Mae C. Jemison
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Who was the first African American to play major league baseball and break the color barrier in 1947? Hint: He was also the 1947 National League Rookie of the year.
Answer: Jackie Robinson
100
Name the first cartoon with an all-black cast. Hint: 1972 - Hey, Hey, Hey!
Answer: Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
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Who am I:Perhaps the most famous woman of the modern Civil Rights era, possessed a quiet courage that literally re-energized the struggle. Refusing to give up her bus seat on December 1, 1955 to accommodate a white passenger, was arrested and booked.
Answer: Rosa Parks
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Who was the first U.S. Secretary of State? Hint: 2001-2004
Answer: Colin Powell
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Who became the first African American to travel in space in 1983? Hint: He was a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Challenger
Answer: Guion S. Bluford
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Who won gold in the 1936 Olympics long jump, the 100-meter dash, the 200-meter dash & 4x100-meter relay? Also was awarded the Medal of Freedom (the highest award a US citizen can receive). Hint: He became an American hero after an amazing performance at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Germany was ruled by Adolph Hitler.
Answer: Jesse Owens
200
Who is known as the first black supermodel after gracing the cover of Glamour? Hint: 1971
Answer: Beverly Johnson
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Who am I: Despite being born a slave in Virginia and raised in dire poverty, he was a Hampton grad, built Tuskegee into a premier African-American educational institution from 1881 to his death in 1915.
Answer: Booker T Washington
300
Who was the first U.S. Supreme Court Justice?
Answer: Thurgood Marshall
300
Who invented the electronic control devices for guided missiles, IBM computers, and the pacemaker.
Answer: Otis Boykin (1920–1982)
300
Who called himself The Greatest and lived up to that name by being the first boxer to win the heavyweight title three times? Hint: He was stripped of his title in 1967 for refusing to join the US Army because of his religious beliefs. He regained the title in 1974 by defeating George Foreman in Zaire in the famous Rumble in the Jungle.
Answer:Muhammad Ali or Cassius Clay
300
Who became the only black Academy Award winner to win both lead and supporting actor Oscars after wins for Glory and Training Day? Hint: 2001
Answer: Denzel Washington
300
Who am I: Dubbed the Moses of her people, braved bounties on her head to travel from the North back into the danger of the South for over a decade to lead others to freedom.
Answer: Harriet Tubman
400
Who was the first women U.S. Secretary of State? Hint: 2005-2009
Answer: Condoleezza Rice
400
Who revolutionized southern agriculture in the early 1900's? Hint: fame is closely associated with Tuskegee University created more than 300 peanut-based products
Answer: Georgia Washington Carver
400
Who was the former track star turned Olympic bobsledder - She made history at the 2002 Winter Olympics by becoming the first black athlete to win a gold medal at a Winter Olympics?
Answer: Vonetta Flowers
400
Who becomes the first African-American woman to win the Academy Award for best actress for her role in Monster’s Ball? Hint: 2002
Answer: Halle Berry
400
Who am I: A gifted orator, he spoke out against slavery in the United States & abroad. As publisher of several newspapers, including his most well-known, The North Star. Hint: Published in 1845, remains one of the most significant slave narratives ever produced
Answer: Frederick Douglass
500
Who was the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hint: The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the highest-ranking military officer in the United States Armed Forces and is the principal military advisor to the President of the United States.
Answer: Colin Powell
500
Who was the first scientist to invent large-scale Blood Bank? Hint:During WWII
Answer: Charles Drew
500
Who made history when he stepped on the ice to play for the Boston Bruins on January 18, 1958. He was the first African American to play in the National Hockey League.
Answer: Willie O'Ree
500
Who won the first Academy Award as best actor for his performance in Lilies of the Field? Hint: 1967
Answer: Sidney Politier
500
Who was a primary chronicler of the Civil Rights Movement, Ebony and JET featured award-winning images of the 20th century’s most tumultuous social change. Hint: JET’s 1955 images of the brutally murdered Emmett Till are often cited as pictures that spurred many to the civil rights movement.
Answer: John H. Johnson
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