African American First
Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Charlie Sifford
Who said, ”I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger”?
Harriet Tubman
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
Brown v. Board of Education
The civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 We’re called what?
Freedom Riders
What African american singer headlined the Super Bowl halftime show in 2024?
Usher
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Colin Powell
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
What was the name of the law that were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in that enforced racial segregation?
Jim Crow Laws
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What state was Barack Obama senator of before his presidency?
Illinois
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Booker T.Washington
Who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
Maya Angelou
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Who 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?
Malcolm X
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Madam C. J. Walker
Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature?
Toni Morrison
Which 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."?
Muhammad Ali
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Shirley Chisholm
What was the name of the group of students who were known to be the first African American students to enter Little Rock's Central High School?
Little Rock Nine
Who was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis?
Althea Gibson
Who was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball?
Jackie Robinson
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Morgan Freeman
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
the Alabama Church Bombing
Who was a civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer that played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957?
Daisy Bates