African American First
American Slavery
African Americans in Government
Civil Rights Movement
Famous African Americans
100
Who was the first African American to win the Masters tournament on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods
100
What formally ended slavery in the United States?
What is the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
100
Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?
Who is Obama?
100
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks
100
This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali
200
Colin Powell became the first African American to serve as what?
Hint: Diplomacy, secretary...
What is the secretary of state?
200
What percentage of southern households owned enslaved people in 1860?
What is 33%?
200
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave, as not was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
200
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?
Who is Malcolm X
200
Who is Beyonce Knowles
300
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington
300
He escaped as a slave and became a prominent activist, author and public speaker. He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
300
The First Rhode Island African American Regiment became known as?
What is the Black Regiment?
300
What does the acronym NAACP stand for?
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
300
He broke the color barrier in baseball and became the first African American to play in the major leagues.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
400
Who was the first African American model to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition?
Hint:American's next top model
Who is Tyra Banks?
400
What was the reason the South seceded from the Union?
What is to preserve slavery?
400
Lillian E. Fishburn became the first African-American woman to hold the rank of what in the Navy?
What is rear admiral?
400
Who 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.
400
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
500
In what year were the first Africans brought to North America to work as slaves?
What is 1619
500
Which colony became the first to legalize slavery, in 1641?
Who is Massachusetts?
500
Who served as a politician and civil rights advocate in the United States House of Representatives for Maryland's 7th congressional district?
Hint: Served from 1996 until his death in October of 2019.
Who is Elijah Cummings?
500
What racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
Hint: What city?
What is the Birmingham Church Bombing or 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
500
Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
Who is George Washington Carver