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100

Co-founders of the Black Panther Party

What is Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale?

100

African American cultural movement that flourished in the 1920s

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

100

Supreme Court case that unanimously ruled separating children on the basis of race was unconstitutional

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

100

The original call to promote the study and celebration of Black people

What is Negro History Week?

100

Three women referred to as NASA’s “human computers”

What is Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson?

200

The slogan of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW)

What is “Lifting as we climb”?

200

An African American dancer, choreographer, and activist who founded their own dance theater and school in New York City

What is Alvin Ailey?

200

Founder of Bethune-Cookman University

What is Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune?

200

March from Selma to Montgomery to demand voting rights

What is Bloody Sunday?

200

African American inventor who patented an improved hairbrush design in 1898

What is Lyda Newman?

300

The first African American woman to refuse to sit at the back of the bus

What is Claudette Colvin?

300

A world-renowned poet and one of the foremost authors of the Black Arts Movement

What is Nikki Giovanni?

300

The first Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in the United States

What is Cheyney University of Pennsylvania?

300

The only all-Black, all-female unit to serve overseas in WWII

What is The Women’s Army Corps (WAC) 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion (The Six Triple Eight)?

300

First African American woman to receive a PhD in chemistry in the United States

What is Dr. Marie M. Daly?

400

Known as the First Lady of the Black Press

What is Ethel Lois Payne?

400

First Black artist to create the official, Smithsonian-commissioned portrait of a former First Lady

What is Amy Sherald?

400

First African American female president of the National Education Association

What is Mary Futrell?

400

A 1960s activism effort to increase Black voter registration in Mississippi

What is Freedom Summer or the Mississippi Summer Project?

400

Creator of the Global Positioning System (GPS)

What is Dr. Gladys West?

500

The first woman to be appointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights

What is Frankie Muse Freeman?

500

First woman to earn a PhD in piano performance and music literature

What is Geneva Southall?

500

Chicago Public Library System’s (CPL) first African American librarian

What is Vivian G. Harsh?

500

This statement was released in 1977 and coined the term “identity politics”

What is The Combahee River Collective Statement?

500

First African American woman appointed to the National Advisory General Medical Services Council

What is Geraldine Pittman Woods?