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Dr. William Hinton is credited with developing a test to detect this disease.
What is syphilis?
100
He was the first Black American to hold the rank of Major in the American Civil War.
Who is Martin Delany?
100
He wrote the book Born to Rebel.
Who is Benjamin E. Mays?
100
This successful businessman was also the founder of the Negro Free Masonry.
Who is Prince Hall?
100
This professional baseball player finished his career with 755 home runs, which was at that time the highest total in major league history.
Who is Hank Aaron?
200
She was the first Black American female to enter the medical profession.
Who is Susan McKinney?
200
He was the first African-American to graduate from West Point Military Academy and later became an advisor to the U.S. Government.
Who is Henry Flipper?
200
This Alex Haley novel was made into a television mini-series in 1977 and 1979.
What is Roots?
200
Available since 1884, this is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States.
What is the Philadelphia Tribune?
200
Jackie Robinson broke color lines with this major league baseball team.
Who are the Brooklyn Dodgers?
300
Philadelphia and Massachusetts cobbler Jan E. Maatzeliger invented this.
What is a shoe lasting machine?
300
He was the first African-American four star general in U.S. Military history.
Who is Daniel James, Jr.?
300
He was the first African-American poet to be nationally recognized for his writing.
Who is Paul Lawrence Dunbar?
300
This is the name of the first Black American radio network.
What is the National Negro Network?
300
He was knocked out by Muhammed Ali in 1974 to win the heavyweight title for the second time.
Who is George Foreman?
400
She was the first Black American female to be awarded a medical degree.
Who is Rebecca Lee Crumpler?
400
Colin Powell was appointed to this position, making him the highest ranking military officer.
What is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
400
He was the "Father of Gospel Music" composing over 1,000 songs.
Who is Thomas A. Dorsey?
400
He was the first Black to anchor a national network television news program?
Who is Max Robinson?
400
He was the youngest boxer to win the heavyweight title.
Who is Mike Tyson?
500
He developed the first airborne radar system that was used for locating downed aircraft.
Who is Ozzie Williams?
500
This was the year the U.S. Navy commissioned its first group of African-American officers.
What is 1944?
500
This is the name of the newsletter which was originally edited by W.E.B. DuBois and published by the NAACP in 1910.
What is The Crisis?
500
She was the first Black American woman bank president.
Who is Maggie Lena Walker?
500
This African-American female won three gold medals at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Who is Florence Griffith-Joyner?