Arts & Entertainment
What is the name of the record label started by Berry Gordy, Jr.
Motown
Barbara Jordan became the South's first African American to hold this political position
Congresswoman
Ronald McNair, Charles Bolden, and Fredrick Gregory pursued what career?
Astronaut
Who was the first African American heavyweight boxing champion
Jack Johnson
Harold Washington became what city's first African American mayor?
Chicago
Who authored the book Roots?
Alex Haley
Who coordinated Operation Desert Storm?
Colin Powell
Who prepared the blueprints for Alexander Graham Bell's telephone
Lewis Latimer
Who was the first African American elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Jackie Robinson
In what famous court case did the justices rule that, "Blacks are an inferior class of beings who had no rights which the white man was bound to respect?"
Dred Scott case
Who won a Tony Award for his performance in the Broadway musical Jelly's Last Jam?
Gregory Hines
In 1954, what landmark Supreme Court case did Thurgood Marshall help orchestrate?
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
Who used math to predict the eclipse of the sun in 1789?
Benjamin Banneker
What NFL player, elected to the Hall of Fame, was the first African American to serve on the Minnesota Supreme Court?
Alan Page
Who appointed Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court?
Lyndon B Johnson
Who sold more than 20 million albums and collected more than 700,000 pounds of food for charity during the 1992 "Too Legit To Quit" tour?
M.C. Hammer
Who was the first African American Supreme Court justice?
Thurgood Marshall
Who was the first African American to head the Centers for Disease Control?
David Satcher
Who became the first African American woman to win the prestigious Wimbledon singles title?
Althea Gibson
What African American was instrumental in the development of the city of Chicago?
Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable
What famous musician's trademark was puffing cheeks and a trumpet bell that pointed skyward?
Dizziy Gillespie
Matthew Henson was famous for
reaching the North Pole first
What African American was called to assist a rescue effort for six workers trapped by a gas explosion using his patented smoke mask?
Garrett A Morgan
Who is the NFL's all-time career rushing leader?
Walter Payton
Where did Martin Luther King Jr. utter the immortal words, "I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream?"
The Lincoln Memorial