The first African American to play major league baseball
What is Jackie Robinson?
100
The first female self-made millionaire in America
What is Madam C. J. Walker?
100
Has been an actor for over 40 years and had the number one sitcom in America for 5 years straight in the 1980's
What is Bill Cosby?
100
Month Black History Month is in
What is February?
200
The first Black woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives
What is Shirley Chisholm?
200
First African American to win three boxing titles
What is Muhammad Ali?
200
Found over 100 use of the peanut
What is George Washington Carver?
200
The first African American to perform with the New York Metropolitan Opera
What is Marian Anderson?
200
Founder of Black History Month
What is Carter G. Woodson?
300
First African-American U.S. Secretary of State
What is Colin Powell?
300
Nicknamed the World's Fastest Man and, in 1976, he was awarded the Medal of Freedom - the highest award a US citizen can receive.
What is Jesse Owens?
300
The first African-American female astronaut
What is Mae C. Jemison?
300
The most awarded female singer of all time
What is Whitney Houston?
300
It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states that were still in rebellion
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
The first female African-American secretary of state
What is Condoleezza Rice?
400
The first basketball player to score 100 points in a single game
What is Wilt Chamberlain?
400
Developer of blood bank
What is Charles R. Drew?
400
The first black person to win an Oscar
What is Sydney Poitier?
400
Court verdict declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
500
The first African-American to be elected to public office
What is Alexander Twilight?
500
The first black athlete to win a gold medal at a Winter Olympics
What is Vonetta Flowers?
500
Inventor of the Super Soaker
What is Lonnie Johnson?
500
The first published African-American poet
What is Phillis Wheatly?
500
The amendment that prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"