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100

Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?

Who is Tiger Woods

100

This student was the first African-American student to attend ECU

Who is Laura Elliot?

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
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
200

This Black organization has been on ECU's Campus for 20 years

What is Black Student Union?

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
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington
300

In what year did ECU hold it's first "black history week"

when is 1969?

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
Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison
400

This woman was the first black Homecoming Queen in 1975.

Who is Jeri Barnes?

400

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
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619
500

This fraternity was the first Black fraternity on ECU's Campus

What is Alpha Phi Alpha?

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

500
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