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Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods
She was the first African American female millionaire with her own revolutionary black hair products
Who is Madame CJ Walker
He said, "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating."
Who is Muhammad Ali
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks
What does the acronym HBCU stand for?
Historically Black College or University
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She was known as a pioneer in aviation and was the first African American woman to obtain a pilot's license and fly a plane
Who is Bessie Coleman
This famous African American inventor developed peanut better and 400 plant products
She was the first African American woman to win 3 gold medals in track in a single Olympics
Who is Wilma Rudolph
What does the acronym NAACP stand for?
What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
This HBCU was founded in 1867 and named for General Oliver Otis Howard, head of the post-Civil War Freedmen's Bureau in Washington, D.C
What is Howard University
Who was the first African American player to play on a major league baseball team?
Who is Jackie Robinson
This African American woman invented a method of eye surgery that has helped many blind people to see
Who is Dr. Patricia E. Bath
He was a member of the 1992 Olympic Dream Team and the Chicago Bulls basketball team. He is credited with making the NBA internationally known
Who is Michael Jordan
Who said Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today?
Who is Malcolm X
The first Historically Black College & University, Cheyney University, was founded in?
What is 1837
In 1993 this author was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for literature?
Who is Toni Morrison
This famous African American inventor invented the traffic signal
Who is Garrett Morgan
She is notable as being the first African-American woman to win an individual Olympic medal in artistic gymnastics
Who is Dominique Dawes
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 Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
This HBCU is named after John D. Rockefeller's wife?
Spelman College
Who was the first African American chess grandmaster?
Who is Maurice Ashley
Who was the first African American to explore the North Pole in 1909?
Who is Matthew Henson
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He is the first player in NFL history to win both Rookie of the Year and the MVP Award in the same season (1957)
Who is Jim Brown
Founded in 1966 this group advocated for African American Equality and black empowerment?
Who are the Black Panthers
Dr. Martin Luther King graduated from this HBCU at the age of 19 in 1948.
Morehouse College