African American First
Quotes
African Americans in Government
Civil Rights Movement
Famous African Americans
100

The first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.

Who is Tiger Woods

100

 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger.

Who is Harriet Tubman

100

Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?

What is Brown v. Board of Education

100

Refused to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?

Who is Rosa Parks?

100

She was president of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years

Who is Dorothy Height

200

The first woman to serve as the United States Secretary of State.

Who is Condoleeza Rice?

200

This person said, "Do not call for Black power or Green power, call for Brain Power."

Who is Barbara Jordon?

200

Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?

What is Dred Scott v. Sandford

200

The organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

200

She is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?

Who is Beyonce Knowles?

300

The first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.

Who is Booker T. Washington

300

This person said, "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?

Who is Maya Angelou

300

Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?

What is Plessy v. Ferguson

300

Was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?

Who is Malcolm X

300

Became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products.

Who is Madame CJ Walker?

400

This author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")

Who is Toni Morrison

400

This famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?

Who is Muhammad Ali

400

The first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?

Who is Shirley Chisholm

400

The phrase "Black Power" originated in 1966, during the James Meredith peace march in this state.

What is Mississippi?

400

The first training school for black nurses was incorporated in this city in 1891.

What is Chicago, IL?

500

The year the first Africans were brought to American to work as slaves.

What is 1619

500

This person said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?

Who is Morgan Freeman

500

African American member of the U.S. House of Representatives who led the Bloody Sunday March across the Edmond Pettus Bridge.

Who was John Lewis?

500

The oldest public black college in the nation.

What is Cheney State College in Cheney, PA?

500

African American inventor who invented ice cream.

Who is Augustus Jackson?


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