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The first African American elected president of the United States.
Who is BARACK OBAMA?
The #1 best-selling black female artist of all time (Second only to Madonna).
Who is Beyoncé Knowles?
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?
The location Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have A Dream" speech?
What is The Lincoln Memorial?
Her refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks?
This person was the first black Supreme Court Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall
The richest Rap Artist of all time?
Who is Jay-Z?
The first African American female Olympian?
Who is Alice Marie Coachman Davis?
The day enslaved people in the State of Texas found out they were free- over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Juneteenth?
The first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The "Queen of Soul".
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This person was the first black professional hockey player
Who is Willie O'Ree
This was the first college to admit people of all races in 1843.
What is Oberlin College
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
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?
The Father of Hip Hop
Who is DJ Kool Herc
Who is the first African American Heisman trophy winner?
Who is Ernie Davis?
The amendment that abolished slavery "within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction"?
What is the 13th Amendment?
What group launched the Freedom Rides in 1961?
CORE-Congress of Racial Equality
This woman became the first female African American in the US House of Representatives in 1969 and would also become the first black candidate to run for a major party nomination for the Presidency in 1972.
Who is Shirley Chisolm?
This was the first African American to have a number one song on the Billboard Hot 100
Who is Tommy Edwards (All in the Game, 1958)
The first major league sport to allow an African American players.
What is Baseball?
This is the landmark Supreme Court case that desegregated public schools
What is Brown vs. The Board of Education (1954)
It was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality.
What is the Black Panther Party?