First African American
African American Quotes
African Americans in Government
Civil Rights Movement
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The first African American golf champion to tour on the PGA.
Who is Tiger Woods?
100
"I never ran my train off the tracks and never lost a passenger."
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
The Supreme Court decision that decreed public schools should be integrated
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
100
The refusal to give up her seat on a bus, sparked a boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
200
The first African American US Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?
200
"The time is always right to do what is right."
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
200
The Supreme Court case that decreed slaves were their master's property.
What is Dred Scott vs. Sandford?
200
Founder of the NAACP.
Who is W. E. B. Du Bois?
300
The first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
"Bringing gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave." "I rise, I rise, and I rise."
Who is Maya Angelou?
300
The case that stated segregation was legal and constitutional as long as the "facilities were equal".
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
300
Broke off from the Islam Nation to form the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Who is Malcolm X?
400
The first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: wrote "Beloved" and "The Bluest Eyes")
Who is Toni Morrison?
400
"If the Negro doesn't succeed in today's America, it is because he has chosen to fail."
Who is Jesse Owens?
400
The first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
400
The leader of the Civil Rights Movement and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
500
The year the first Africans were brought to America as slaves.
What is 1619?
500
"I don't want a Black History Month, Black History is American History."
Who is Morgan Freeman?
500
The African American elected President of the United States in 2008.
Who is Barack Obama?
500
Racially motivated attack on a church that caused the death of four little girls.
What is the Alabama Church Bombing?
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