He was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods?
100
This person said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger.'
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
This person was well known for discovering over 100 different uses for the peanut.
Who is George Washington Carver?
100
This person was one of the most influential figures in reggae music.
Who is Bob Marley?
100
This person became the first African American to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
200
He was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell?
200
This person said "The time is always right to do what is right."
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
200
This female ambassador serves as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and is a member of President Obama's Cabinet.
Who is Susan Rice?
200
This show was the first cartoon with an all black cast.
What is Fat Albert?
200
The person was the first African American woman to become the executive producer of three leading television series.
Who is Shonda Rhimes?
300
He was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
She 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
With songs like: "My Girl", "My Baby", and "Get Ready", this male vocal group achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown.
Who are The Temptations?
300
Singer, jazz vocalist. Born Eleanora Fagan on April 7, she was one of the most influential jazz singers of all time.
Who is Billie Holiday?
300
This person, after founding a major television network, became the first African American billionaire.
Who is Robert L. Johnson.
400
She 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
This person was an abolitionist, orator and writer who fought against slavery and for women's rights. He was the first African-American citizen appointed to high ranks in the U.S. government.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
400
This person was the first male African American Grammy winner.
Who is Count Basie?
400
This person became the first African American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.
Who is Mae Jemison?
500
In this year, the first Africans were brought to America 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
This man, after leaving the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), was appointed by Jimmy Carter to direct more than 250,000 volunteers of ACTION, the federal volunteer agency.
Who is John Lewis?
500
An African American operatic and concert singer that was renowned throughout the world for her extraordinary contralto voice. The first African American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera.
Who is Marian Anderson?
500
This man along with Alfred Blalock developed the medical procedure to treat Blue Baby Syndrome at Vanderbilt University. He was also the first African American to perform open heart surgery on a white patient in the US.