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The first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.

Who is Tiger Woods?

100

She once said, ' I can say what most conductors can't say - I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger'.

Who is Harriet Tubman?

100
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
100
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks
100
This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali
200

The first Black woman to headline Coachella.

Who is Beyonce'?

200

He once said 'You only live once: that's the motto'.

Who is Aubrey 'Drake' Graham?

200
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
200
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
200
Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Who is Beyonce Knowles
300

The first African American to serve as a United States Secretary of State.

Who is Colin Powell?

300

She once wrote, "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise."

Who is Maya Angelou?

300
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
300
Who was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
Who is Malcolm X
300
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker
400

This author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "Beloved".)

Who is Toni Morrison?

400

He once said, " I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal".

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
400
Who was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
400
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
500

The year in which the first Africans were brought to America to work as slaves.

What is 1619?

500

She once said, "When they go low, we go high".

Who is Michelle Obama?

500
Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?
Who is BARACK OBAMA!!!!!
500
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
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Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
Who is George Washington Carver