A former Secretary of the NAACP who is credited with initiating the Montgomery bus boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
The first African-American to serve as a United States Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
100
NAACP
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
100
A tall drink of water who signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
Also known as “The Society of Friends,” with a long history of abolition, and connoisseurs of oatmeal, these individuals wrote the initial protest of slavery in the 17th century.
Who are The Quakers?
200
On September 4, 1957 in Little Rock, Arkansas, the National Guard prevented this number of students from entering Central High School, a decision that President Eisenhower would later counter by sending Federal Troops to escort the students into the school.
What is 9?
200
She was the first African American actress to win an Academy Award for her performance in Gone with the Wind.
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
200
UNCF
What is United Negro College Fund?
200
This President proposed to Congress that they consider civil rights legislation which culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
200
It was in this metropolitan city where The Freedom's Journal, the first African-American owned and operated newspaper, was created.
Where is New York?
300
Cited as the "Father of Black History", this scholar is often credited with launching the celebration of Black History Month.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
300
Sarah Goode was the first African American woman to receive a patent for inventing this- which you can find in most hotels.
What is the folding bed?
300
HBCU
What is Historically Black Colleges and Universities?
300
This 14 year-old African-American boy was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 and an all-white jury acquitted two white men of his murder.
Who is Emmett Till?
300
A sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and author who was the only African American among the original NAACP executives.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
400
In Greensboro, North Carolina, this action by four young black men sparked a 1960s movement which attacked segregationist public policy.
What was the Woolworth Store lunch counter sit-in?
400
This politician, minister and college administrator was the first African American to serve as a United States Senator, representing Mississippi from 1870-1871.
Who is Hiram Rhodes Revels?
400
PUSH
What is People United to Save (Serve) Humanity?
400
In 1896, this case which was known for it's Separate but Equal doctrine, issued a verdict that would be used for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for almost 60 years.
What is the Plessy vs. Ferguson case?
400
Despite reservations from his friends, associates and family, this building in Manhattan is where Malcolm X insisted on giving his final speech.
What is the Audubon Ballroom?
500
Two revolutionary socialists who founded The Black Panther Party in October of 1966.
Who are Bobby Seale and Huey Newton?
500
A diplomat who in 1950, was the first African American to receive the Nobel Peace Price due to his late 1940's mediation in Israel.
Who is Ralph Bunche? Born in Detroit
500
CORE
What is the Congress Of Racial Equality?
500
An outspoken congressional representative who said, “I’ve always met more discrimination being a woman than being black. When I ran for the Congress, when I ran for President... men are men.”
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
500
They were originally formed on September 21, 1866 in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, these all-black regiments were given their nickname by the Native American tribes who fought in the Indian Wars.