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100

This artist's career stretched five decades and they're best known for their performance with the trumpet.


Who is Louie Armstrong?  

100

This painter gained national recognition with their 60-panel Migration Series, specifically The Migration of the Negro.

Who is Jacob Lawerence?

100

Rosa Parks is famous for this one thing.

Is it refusing to sit in the back of the bus during the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

100

This person had a dream that one day little boys and little girls would not be judged by their skin, but the content of their character. 

Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?

 





100

The creator of peanut butter

George Washington Carver

200

Nicknamed the Empress of the Blues, she is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era.


Who is Bessie Smith?  

200

A famous writer during the Harlem Renaissance, they focused on gender identity and women liberation, best told through their book, "Their Eyes Were Watching God"



Who is Zora Neale Hurston?


200

The verdict for the Brown vs Board of Education

Is it that the racial segregation of children in public schools is unconstitutional? 

200

The main leader of the Black Panther Party and creator of the Ten-Point Program.

Who is Huey Newton?

200

The creator of the traffic signal 

Who is Garrett A. Morgan?

300

This musician wrote more than one thousand compositions; their extensive body of work is the largest recorded in Jazz legacy. 

Who is Duke Ellington? 

 

300

This painter offered a political voice in their paintings, and in 1935, created controversy with their painting, The Watermelon Race.

Who is Palmer C. Hayden?

300

This act of terrorism occurred when four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the steps of this church, killing four girls.

 

300

Following the assassination of their predecessor, this person reluctantly signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?

300

The creator of blood banks 

Who is Dr. Charles Richard Drew?


400

From heroin addict to the Prince of Darkness, this musician transformed Jazz through the ideology that one does not fear mistakes, for there are none.

Who is Miles Davis?

400

The first African-American artist to be elected to the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. Later on, launched their own Savage Studio of Arts and Crafts that was opened to anyone who wanted to paint, draw, or sculpt


Who is Augusta Savage?

400

On this day, 600 Voting Rights advocates from Selma were attacked by state troopers equipped with sticks, clubs, whips and tear gas.

What is Bloody Sunday?  

400

As Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, this person ordered police to stay away while the KKK attacked homes and bus stations. He had over a thousand children arrested during a peaceful protest and had another thousand school students get sprayed with fire hoses and attacked by dogs.  

Who is Theophilus Eugene “Bull” Connor?  

400

The creator of the home security system

Who is Marie Van Brittan Brown?

500

Known as the First Lady of Song and the Queen of Jazz. She was able to have a 60-year career due to her purity of tone, goddesses like voice and improvisational ability, specifically her scat singing.



Who is Ella Fitzgerald?  

500

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.

They send me to eat in the kitchen

When company comes,

But I laugh,

And eat well,

And grow strong.

Tomorrow,

I’ll be at the table

When company comes.

Nobody’ll dare

Say to me,

“Eat in the kitchen,”

Then.

Besides,

They’ll see how beautiful I am

And be ashamed—

I, too, am America.

Who is Langston Hughes?

500

This was the largest political rally for human rights ever in the United States. An estimated 200,000 to 300,000 people participated in it. King also delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech during this event.

Is it the (1963) March on Washington?

500

When twenty-one, this person was sentenced to prison for burglary. While there, this person encountered the teachings of Elijah Muhammad. Muhammad preached that the white man is the devil with whom blacks cannot live along with. This turned this person's life around, following the idea that only blacks can cure the ills that afflict them.      

Who is Malcolm X?

500

George Crum is the creator of this delicious snack

What is Potato Chips?