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Who wrote the Auto-biography of Malcolm X?
Benjamin Banneker convinced what US President that African Americans were intelligent and deserved to be free?
Thomas Jefferson
What is the name of the first Black Greek Fraternity for college students?
Alpha Phi Alpha
Who performed the world's first open-heart surgery?
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
What professional baseball player finished his career with 755 home runs?
Henry "Hank" Aaron
Who is known as the "Queen of Soul?"
Aretha Franklin
Starting with $1.50 in cash, what college did Mary McLeod Bethune found?e
Bethune-Cookman College
What did Madame CJ Walker invent in 1905 that was sold door-to-door?
Hair care preparations for African Americans
What African American astronaut died in the 1986 space shuttle disaster/explosion?
Ronald McNair
What African American woman has won the most medals in gymnastics?
Simone Biles
Who was the first African American woman to win an Academy Award?
Hattie McDaniel
What did many associate with the term "Jim Crow"?
Racial segregation
Who was the first African American woman chosen as "Miss America?"
Venessa Williams
Apollo 16 used an ultraviolet camera designed by what African American?
George E. Carruthers
What basketball superstar became the first African American to manage a major league sports team?
Bill Russell
Who wrote the famous song, "Say it Loud. I'm Black and I'm Proud!"
James Brown
CORE, SCLC, and the NAACP share what common goal?
Equal rights for African Americans
Who was the first African American to win a medal in the Winter Olympics?
Debi Thomas
Who was the first man to discover the North Pole and to plant the American Flag there?
Matthew Henson
What female track star set world records in the 100 meter and the 200 meter dashes?
Florence Griffith-Joyner aka Flo-Jo
B. B. King is noted for what type of music?
The Blues
Who sparked the Montgomery Boycott of 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on the bus?
Rosa Parks
Dorothy Heights was the president of what organization?
National Council of Negro Women
Who invented the three-way traffic light?
Garrett A. Morgan
Who are the only two brothers to ever hold the heavyweight boxing titles?
Michael Spinks and Leon Spinks