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100

She made improvements to the ironing board.

Who is Sarah Boone?

100

The first Black president in the US.

Who was Barack Obama?

100

She wrote the best selling memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."

Who is Maya Angelou?

100

He was the man behind Black History Month.

Who is Carter G. Woodson?

100

He was the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball in this modern era.  

Who is Jackie Robinson?

200

She invented the first home security system.  

Who is Marie Van Britton Brown?

200

The first black (women) to serve on the House of Representatives.

Who is Shirley Chisholm?

200

He wrote the autobiography "Malcolm X."

Who is Alex Haley?

200

This was the war that helped put an end to slavery in the United States of America.

What is the civil war?

200

She is an American Professional Tennis Player that has won 23 Grand Slam Singles titles.  

Who is Serena Williams?

300

He developed hundreds of products using peanuts.

Who is George Washington Carver?

300

The first African-American senator.

Who was Hiram Rhodes?

300

He wrote the novel "The Long Way Down."

Who is Jason Reynolds?

300

This is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States.

What is Juneteenth?

300

He spent his entire 20 year basketball career with the LA Lakers.

Who is Kobe Bryant?

400

He invented the three-position-traffic signal.

Who is Garrett Morgan?

400

The first African-American millionaire.  

Who was Madame CJ Walker?

400
He wrote the novel "Bud, not Buddy."

Who is Christopher Paul Curtis?

400

Africans were packed on ships and were forcibly transported to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. This triangular trade was referred to as... 

What is the Middle Passage?

400
This former NBA star is the principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets.

Who is Michael Jordan?

500

Patricia Bath invented this.

What is a new device and technique for cataract surgery known as laserphaco?

500

The first black lawyer in the United States of America

Who was Macon Bolling Allen (1844)?

500

He wrote the play "Fences."

Who is August Wilson?

500

He wrote the Black (Negro) National Anthem.

Who is James Weldon Johnson?

500

He was an American Professional tennis play that won three Grand Slam singles titles.

Who is Arthur Ashe?

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