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In 1952 this male became a minister of the Nation of Islam.
Who is Malcolm X?
100
Who is James Meredith?In 1962 he became the first black student to enroll into the University of Mississippi.
Who is James Meredith?
100
In 1972 this African American gospel singer dies.
Who is Mahalia Jackson?
100
In 1983 this book won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
What is the Color Purple?
100
In 1992 she became the first woman to win two Olympic heptathlon.
Who is Jackie Joyner-Kersee?
200
In 1954 this case declared that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
200
In 1963 he was arrested and jailed during an anti-segrefation in Birmingham, Alabama.
Who is Martin Luther king Jr.?
200
In 1978 this was upheld to ensure equal opportunities for minorities.
What is affirmative action?
200
In 1983 she became the first African American winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Who is Toni Morrison?
200
In 1992 she became the first African American woman in space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
300
In 1955 this young boy was brutally murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi.
Who is Emmett Till?
300
In 1964 he signed the Civil Rights Act.
Who is President Lyndon Johnson?
300
In 1975 this woman becomes the first African American woman board chair of the NAACP.
Who is Mary Wilson?
300
In 1984 she became the first African American selected as Miss America.
Who is Vanessa Williams?
300
In 1992 she became the first African American woman to be elected to the US Senate.
Who is Carol Moseley Braun?
400
In 1955 this woman refused to give up her seat at the front of a bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
400
In 1965 this act was passed making it easier for African Americans to register to vote.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
400
In 1976 she gave the keynote addres at a national convention of the Democratic Party.
Who is Barbara Jordan?
400
In 1989 she became the first African American woman to host a nationally-syndicated talk show.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
400
In 2002 she became the first African American to win the Best Actress Oscar.
Who is Halle Berry?
500
In 1955 these nine students were blocked from entering school.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
500
In 1966 this organization was founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
What is the Black Panthers?
500
In 1979 she became the first African American woman appointed as a general.
Who is Hazel Winifred Johnson?
500
In 1988 she becomes the first American woman to win four medals in one Olympics.
Who is Florence Griffith-Joyner?
500
In 2000 she was named as the next Secretary of State.
Who is Condoleezza Rice?