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NSBE Facts
100
Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods
100
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman
100
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
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
When and where was NSBE founded?
What is Purdue University & 1975
200
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
200
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
200
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
200
What civil rights organization was created to advance justice for African Americans in 1909?
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
200
Who Founded NSBE?
Who are the Chicago Six?
300
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington
300
Who 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
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
300
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
300
Who was the first woman to serve as the national chairperson?
Who is Virginia Booth
400
Which author 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
Who said it: "In your struggle for freedom, justice and equality I am with you. I came to Louisville because I could not remain silent while my own people, many I grew up with, many I went to school with, many my blood relatives, were being beaten, stomped and kicked in the streets simply because they want freedom, and justice and equality in housing.”
Who is Muhammad Ali
400
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
400
Who was the leader of the first majority-black labor union called the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters?
Who is A. Philip Randolph
400
What is the mission of NSBE?
"To increase the number of culturally responsible Black Engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally and positively impact the community."
500
Who was the 44th President of the U.S ?
What is Barack Obama
500
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
500
Who was the first female African-American Secretary of State
Who is Condoleeza Rice ?
500
What is the name of the group of nine students threatened with violence upon integration of Central High School in Arkansas in 1957?
What is the Little Rock Nine
500
Where is this year's national convention?
What is Pittsburgh Pa
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