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The first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.
Who is Tiger Woods?
This person said, "I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger".
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This person's refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This 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?
The first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?
This person said "The time is always right to do what is right".
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
This Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
The name of the organization founded with the mission to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons.
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
This person is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars.
Who is Beyonce Knowles?
The first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This person 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?
This Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This person 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?
This person became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
Author who 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?
This 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?
This was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This person was a well-known 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 demonstration.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This fourteen year old black boy was murdered for whistling at a white woman.
Who is Emmet Till?
The first Black American to become Vice President of the United States of America.
Who is Kamala Harris?
This person said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
Who is Morgan Freeman?
This African American was elected president of the United States in 2008.
Who is Barrack Obama?
This racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama.
What is the Alabama Church Bombing?
(Also known as 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing and/or the Birmingham Church Bombing)
This person 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?