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Famous African Americans
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In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619
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
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
200
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington
200
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
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 was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
200

The Black Panthers, also known as the Black Panther Party, was a political/revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality founded in Oakland, CA in 1966 by *BLANK* and Bobby Seale.

Who is Huey P. Newton

300

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

300
Which famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?
Who is Muhammad Ali
300
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
300

A minister, a leader in the civil rights movement and a supporter of Black nationalism. He urged his fellow Black Americans to protect themselves against white aggression “by any means necessary,”. His charisma and oratory skills helped him achieve national prominence in the Nation of Islam, a belief system that merged Islam with Black nationalism.

Who is Malcolm X

300
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker
400
Who was the first African American to earn a dental degree, graduating from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 1869?


Who is Robert Tanner Freeman

400
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
400
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
400

Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?

What is the Alabama Church Bombing

400

A devoted husband and father, a distinguished World War II veteran, and a pioneering civil rights leader. He served as the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi—organizing protests and voter registration drives, recruiting new workers into the civil rights movement, fought against cruel Jim Crow laws, protested segregation in education, and launched an investigation into the Emmett Till lynching.

Who is Medgar Evers

500

Who was the first Black woman to earn a dental degree, graduating from the University of Michigan College of Dentistry in 1890? She was one of three females in her class.

Who is Ida Gray Nelson Rollins

500

Who is the Pan-Africanist Leader that coined "Black Power" and gave it this definition: 

”It is a call for Black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for Black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.”

Who is Stokely Carmichael

500

A civil rights lawyer who used the courts to fight Jim Crow and dismantle segregation in the U.S.; served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was a towering figure who became the nation's first Black United States Supreme Court Justice.

Who is Thurgood Marshall

500

The 1921 Attack on Greenwood was one of the most significant events in Tulsa, OK history. Following World War I, Tulsa was recognized nationally for its affluent African American community known as the Greenwood District. This thriving business district and surrounding residential area was referred to as *BLANK*. In June 1921, a series of race riots/ massacres against the community nearly destroyed the entire Greenwood area.

What is Black Wall Street

500
Who 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
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