He was the first black President of the United States of America.
Who is Barack Obama?
100
Her refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, Alabama buses from 1955-1956.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
She became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
100
The Great Migration increased the black population from under 6,000 to 120,000 in this famous motor city.
What is Detroit?
100
He is the greatest basketball player of all time
Who is Michael Jordan?
200
He was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?
200
He was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
200
In October of 1914 and November of 1923, he created the gas mask and the traffic light.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
200
This city is a major port that was home to a light-skinned group of blacks called Creoles. It was also hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
What is New Orleans?
200
He was the first African-American to win the Master's Tournament in golf.
Who is Tiger Woods?
300
He wanted to become a lawyer, a man of justice, but segregation and discrimination held him down. He powered through and became the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
300
This group of African American students was the first to attend an all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
What is the Little Rock Nine?
300
He discovered hundreds of uses for peanuts, and he was also one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990.
Who is George Washington Carver?
300
This major city, home to the offices and meeting places for the US government, was a major stop for runaway slaves and attracted a large number of blacks after the Civil War.
What is Washington DC?
300
These famous tennis sisters have won 48 Grand Slam titles between the two of them.
Who are Venus and Serena Williams?
400
This politician was the first female African-American secretary of state.
Who is Condoleezza Rice?
400
This civil rights activist was involved in efforts to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi. He was assassinated at age 37 for his activism.
Who is Medgar Evers?
400
Lonnie G Johnson invented this water gun, the #1 selling toy in America in 1991.
What is the Super Soaker?
400
Booker T. Washington gave his most famous speech in this city in Georgia.
What is Atlanta?
400
This man courageously broke baseball's color barrier in 1947 - a time when segregation was the social norm in America.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
500
He was the first African American mayor of Charlotte.
Who is Harvey Gantt?
500
This brave 6-year-old girl was the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
500
This African-American chef accidentally created potato chips when he cut potato slices too thin after a customer sent back his plate of potato slices because they were too thick.
Who is George Crum?
500
In 1963 four young black girls attending Sunday school were killed in a bomb explosion at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in this city in Alabama.
What is Birmingham, Alabama?
500
This young member of the Fab Five USA gymnastics team won gold medals in both the individual all-around and team competitions in the 2012 Olympics.