During the slave era this common household object was jumped over in order to signify the unity of a couple, since slaves were denied the legal right to marry. Some couples still continue this tradition today.
What is a Broomstick?
100
He is the first African American to be honored with a federally-funded statue and is remembered as the "peanut scientist".
Who is George Washington Carver?
100
Hattie McDaniel was the first black performer to receive an Academy Award. She won for Best Supporting Actress for this 1939 film
What is Gone With The Wind?
100
This is Tiger Woods' given name?
What is Eldrick Tony Woods
100
In this year was the historic march on Washington?
What is 1963?
200
This Harlem theater is the showcase of African American talent
What is the Apollo Theater?
200
He was the first African American astronaut to journey into space
Who is Dr. Guion Stewart "Guy" Bluford, Jr.
200
This dancer-choreographer founded his own dance company in 1957 and developed Revelations one of the best known, most often seen modern dance performances.
Who is Alvin Ailey?
200
He won four Gold Medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
Who is Jesse Owens?
200
This transportation changing event lasted 1 year and 19 days - December 1st 1955 to December 20, 1956
What was the Montgomery bus boycott?
300
Known for his social and political views, he published The Souls of Black Folks in 1903
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
300
The 99th Pursuit Squadron was know by this more descriptive name
What is The Tuskegee Airmen?
300
She was the first Black American singer to be admitted to the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York
Who is Marian Anderson?
300
She overcame crippling polio to be the first American woman to win three gold medal in the 1960 summer Olympic games?
Who is Wilma Rudolph?
300
This movement first started in Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina
What were the 'sit-ins'?
400
He is the creator of the African-American holiday, Kwanzaa.
Who is Dr. Maulana Karenga ?
400
The first black female aviator received her pilot license in France because she was refused entry in to aeronautics schools.
Who was Bessie Coleman?
400
He was first black ballet dancer with the New York City Ballet also founded the Dance Theatre of Harlem in 1970.
Who is Arthur Mitchell?
400
This was the only father-son duo to win All Star MVP Awards in baseball?
Who are Bobby and Barry Bonds?
400
He worked for the NAACP and became the first field secretary in Jackson, Mississippi. He was shot in June 1963.
Who was Medgar Evers?
500
He was the first black Rhodes Scholar and is known as the "father" of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Alain Locke?
500
He was the first African American to head the National Science Foundation?
Who was John Brooks Slaughter?
500
He was the first Black American poet to be nationally recognized for his writing
Who was Paul Lawrence Dunbar?
500
This African American basketball star was the first woman to dunk during a professional basketball game.
Who is Lisa Leslie?
500
The 1876 ending of Black reconstruction resulted in a mass movement in 1879-1880 of hundreds of thousands of Southerners who went to Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois.
What was "The Exodus of 1879", or the "Exodusters"?