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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

100

 Who was the first African American District Attorney for Dallas County? 

Who is Craig Watkins 

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 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

 A network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as

 What is the Underground Railroad

200

Born into slavery, she escaped and subsequently made more than thirteen missions to rescue more than 70 slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. 

Who is Harriet Tubman

300

Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?

Who is Booker T. Washington

300

 What two HBCUs play in the annual State Fair of   Texas Football Classic? 

Who is  Prairie View A&M University and Grambling State University 

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 became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?

Who is Madame CJ Walker

400

Was an American born United States Air Force general and commander of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen.  He was the first African American general in the U.S. Air Force.

Who is Benjamin Davis

400

 Texas is bounded by what U.S. states? 

What is  Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico

400

During the Civil War he became a consultant to President Abraham Lincoln; he also began the North Star Newspaper.

Who is  Frederick Douglass 

400

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 Martin Luther King Jr.

400

Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?

Who is Emmet Till

500

In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?

What is 1619

500

Who was released from the Robben Island Prison on February 11, 1990, after serving 27 years in prison?

Who is Nelson Mandela

500

Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?

Who is BARACK OBAMA!!!!!

500

 In what year did Martin Luther King Jr. give his "I Have a Dream” speech

What is  1963

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 This Civil Rights activist (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was the first field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi. 

Who is Medgar Evers 

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