The first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit
Who is Tiger Woods
100
Jazz trumpeter known by the name "Satchmo"
Who is Louis Armstrong
100
In what city did the National Guard try to prevent nine black students from attending a segregated school in 1957?
What is Little Rock, Arkansas
100
The group of students famous for challenging school segregation in the deep South?
Who are the "Little Rock Nine"
100
This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali
200
The first African-American to appear on a U.S. postage stamp
Who is Booker T. Washington
200
Best known for her autobiographical writings I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969); All God`s Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986).
Who is Maya Angelou
200
On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court in "this case" declares segregation in all public schools in the United States unconstitutional, nullifying the earlier judicial doctrine of separate but equal.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education
200
This person was responsible for launching the Birmingham bus boycott, one of the pivotal events of the civil-rights movement
Who is Rosa Parks
200
This man believed that peanuts could fight polio
Who is George Washington Carver
300
This state was the first to elect a Black governor
What is Virginia (Douglas Wilder)
300
This civil rights activist is the author of the book "Soul on Ice"
Who is Eldridge Cleaver
300
This educator founded what is now known as Bethune-Cookman University in 1904 in Daytona Beach, Florida
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune
300
He was the lawyer who won the Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), which made segregation in public schools illegal
Who is Thurgood Marshall
300
This man founded the New York Division of the Universal Negro Improvement Association with sixteen members in 1916
Who is Marcus Garvey
400
First African American to play Major League Baseball in the 20th century
Who is Jackie Robinson
400
This famous painter first attracted attention for his graffiti under the name "SAMO" in New York City
Who is Jean-Michel Basquiat
400
He became the first African American president of Howard University in September, 1926
Who is Dr. Mordecai Johnson
400
These student groups rode on buses throughout the South in order to integrate interstate transportation.
Who were the Freedom Riders
400
This woman served as the 66th U.S. Secretary of State
Who is Condoleezza Rice
500
The first African American elected to the U.S. Senate
Who is Edward Brooke III
500
The "Queen of Soul" was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Who is Aretha Franklin
500
This university established the nation's first Black Studies Program in September, 1968
What is San Francisco State University
500
What civil rights motto did Lyndon B. Johnson use when introducing new voting legislation to Congress in 1965?