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Who was the first African American golf champion on the Professional Golf Association circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods
100
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman
100
Who refused to give up her seat on a public bus and sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks
100
Who are the two people who started ATAP Foundation AND in what year?
Who are Dr. Carlos Worthy and Dr. Tiffani Worthy, 2007
100
In a poem, who wrote "I rise. I rise. I rise."?
Who is Maya Angelou
200
Who was the first African American woman astronaut?
Who is Mae Jamison.
200
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right" and "I have a dream"?
Who is Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
200
What was the name of the organization founded by W.E.B. DuBois and other leaders on February 12, 1909 to advance the rights of "colored people"?
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
200
Who wrote the Black National Anthem “Lift Every Voice” in 1900 and is also a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.?
Who is James Weldon Johnson
200
What organization was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C., on January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male students: Honorable A. Langston Taylor, Honorable Leonard F. Morse, and Honorable Charles I. Brown to truly exemplify the ideals of brotherhood, scholarship, and service.?
What is Phi Beta Sigama Fraternity Incorporated.
300
Who was the first African American graduate of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.
Who is Henry Ossian Flipper in 1877.
300
Who said "By any means necessary"?
Who is Malcolm X
300
Who connected with Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of the National Council for Negro Women (NCNW), was her mentee, a prominent organizer for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963, and was and a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority?
Who is Dorothy Irene Height
300
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madam CJ Walker
300
Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
Who is Judge Thurgood Marshall
400
Who was the first African American to open Provident Hospital, a Black-owned hospital, AND be the pioneer for heart surgery?
Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
400
she co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), which challenged the local Democratic Party’s efforts to block Black participation; helped organize Freedom Summer, which brought hundreds of college students, Black and white, to help with African American voter registration in the segregated South; began a “pig bank” to provide free pigs for Black farmers to breed, raise, and slaughter; famous quote on December 20, 1964 is "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired."
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer
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She is an American political activist, professor, and author who was an active member in the Communist Party and the Black Panther Party. She is most famous for her involvement with the Soledad brothers, who were accused of killing a prison guard.
Who is Angela Davis?
400
Who invented the traffic light?
Who is Garret Morgan
400
This person spearheaded the development of the first satellite to send images from space. The technology developed is used by NASA to this day.
Who is Valerie Thomas?
500
Who was the first black Rhodes Scholar and member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. earning this distinction in 1907?
Who is Alain LeRoy Locke
500
Who is the first Youth National Poet Laureate and recited her poem, The Hill We Climb, at the inauguration for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris? A famous line from her poem is: “There is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it.”
Who is Amanda Gorman?
500
This member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. was a civil rights activist and United States Congressman, who led the first of three Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge?
Who is John Lewis.
500
This San Francisco 49er wide receiver is in the NFL Hall of Fame and is also a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.. He is regarded as the greatest wide receiver of all time.
Who is Jerry Rice.
500
An African-American scientist and inventor who developed hundreds of products using peanuts and is a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.? And, was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame?
Who is George Washington Carver