What is the date of Martin Luther King's Assassination?
What is April 4, 1968?
100
Won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in the film, "Gone With The Wind"
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
100
Educator and founder of Tuskegee University. Middle name was Taliaferro. He is buried on the grounds of the university.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
100
An educator, who also found many uses for the peanut and the sweet potato. Is also buried on the grounds of Tuskegee University.
Who is George Washington Carver?
200
What is the baseball team that Jackie Robinson played for?
Who are the Brooklyn Dodgers?
200
What is the location of where Martin Luther King fell after being struck down by an assassin's fatal bullet?
What is the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on the balcony, outside of room 306?
200
A New York City-based Artist most known for his paintings of colorful emotional intensity, who also lived in a cardboard box and was homeless for a period of time.
Who is Jean-Michel Basquait
200
Senator from Illinois, who went to the highest office in 2008.
Who is President Barack Obama?
200
Inventor of the dry cleaning process.
Who is Thomas L. Jennings?
300
The first African American Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World?
Who is Jack Johnson?
300
What is where and when the case of Brown vs. The Board of Education took place and was decided.
What is Topeka, Kansas 1954?
300
The poet most famous for her autobiography, "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings", as well as poems, "Life Doesn't Frighten Me", and "Still I Rise"?
Who is Maya Angelou?
300
Believed in the strength of the African American family and the power of education, saying, "Education is our passport to the future; for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."
Who is Malcolm X?
300
Invented the blood bank
Who is Dr. Charles Drew?
400
Who is the first African American to win a Grand Slam title and compete at Wimbledon?
Who is Althea Gibson?
400
When and where did the Bus Boycott take place?
What is from 1955-1956, Montgomery, Alabama.
400
The author of "Roots" as well as "The Autobiography of Malcolm X"?
Who is Alex Haley?
400
First African American Supreme Court Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
400
A groundbreaking leader in various outlets of media (television, magazines,etc) also one of the richest and most influential people in the world. Began career as a talk show host.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
500
What school did Ernie Davis, 1st African American Heisman Trophy-winner attend?
What is Syracuse University?
500
1896, New Orleans, Louisiana, established separate but equal conditions between blacks and whites.
What is the case of Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
Who is the Nachitoches, Louisiana artist most famous for her paintings portraying plantation life of the early 20th Century?
Who is Clementine Hunter?
500
Following the methods of India's Gandhi, this prominent civil rights leader also believed in protesting in masses and using non-violent methods at all costs.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King?
500
Patented an improved a rotary blade lawnmower with traction wheels which made it possible to mow closer to buildings and wall edges.