James Weldon Johnson wrote the famous poem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" which is also known as this.
What is the Negro National Anthem?
100
A slave who sued for his freedom in court when he taken to a "free" state (Wisconsin).
Who is Dred Scott?
100
Rosa Parks who was a pivotal figure in the fight for civil rights refused to do this.
What is give up your seat or what is go to the back of the bus?
100
Nelson Mandela served 27 years in a prison located in this place for refusing to compromise his political beliefs.
What (Where) is South Africa's first black president South African prison
100
First person to take a picture of herself in a bathroom mirror.
Who is Marcella Turner?
200
Alice Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel.
What is the Color Purple?
200
A pharaoh who established the belief in one God instead of many gods and goddesses.
Who is Akhenaton?
200
Muhammed Ali won the heavyweight boxing
title three times and refused to fight in this war
What is the Vietnam war?
200
Emmett Ashford was the first black umpire in what major league.
What is baseball.?
200
Marcus “Pinky” Price Currently holds the record ruining 51 of these with his Jheri Curl activator.
What are couches?
300
Alex Haley wrote the book, Roots, which started this movement.
What is looking up your family tree or locating his ancestors?
300
Henry "Box" Brown was a slave who did this by mail.
What is mailed himself to freedom?
300
Isabella Baumfree, (1797?-1883) who was an American preacher who dedicated her life to fighting for civil and human rights. I better known by this name.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
300
She was the first African American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (1955 and the first black artist invited to entertain at the White House.
Who is Marian Anderson?
300
REV. ALBERSTINE LAMBOLT was the first preacher to tell his congregation to do this.
What is turn to the person next to them and say something (i.e. - “Turn to your neighbor and say, ‘Neighbor! The Lord paid my light bill this month!’”)?
400
Recognized as "the father of gospel music."
Who is Thomas A. Dorsey?
400
Imhotep multi-talented Egyptian who designed this part of the Pyramids.
What are Steps?
400
A cigar smoking, gun toting icon woman who earned a place in Montana’s history along side of the other romantic figures of the old West.
Who is Mary Fields?
400
Jesse Brown was the first black aviator in this military branch.
What is the U.S. Navy?
400
First person to ask if he can “put somethin’ on a bill.”
Who is Stanley Myers?
500
Duke Ellington was big band composer and leader of Harlem's famous club during the Harlem Renaissance.
What is the Cotton Club ?
500
Queen Nzingha launched a successful war against and forced them to sign a treaty.
Who are the Portuguese slave traders?
500
He was described as the "president" of the Underground Railroad.
Who is William Still?
500
First black woman in the United States to receive a pilot’s license.
Who is Bessie Coleman?
500
First person to refer to an old, beat-up car as a “hooptie.”