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Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods
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Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman
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What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
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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
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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
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a chef and restaurateur is said to have unintentionally created the potato chip during the summer of 1853. They were made in response to a customer who sent back their fried potatoes after complaining they were too thick.    

George Crum

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Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
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Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
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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)
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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
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Accumulated nearly 60 patents during his lifetime, many of which improved the functioning of railroads. His most notable are the induction telegraph system, which allowed traveling trains to communicate with one another while also allowing dispatchers to locate them, and the first electricity-powered railway.    

Granville  Woods

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Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington
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Who said "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
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Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
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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
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Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker
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the man famous for giving us peanut butter and much more. As an agricultural chemist, in an effort to increase the profitability of sweet potatoes and peanuts, Carver began conducting experiments in 1896 and created 518 new products from the crops. They include ink, dye, soap, cosmetics, flour, vinegar, and synthetic rubber.    

George Washington Carver

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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
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Which famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?
Who is Muhammad Ali
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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
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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.
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Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
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first African American woman to become a self-made millionaire after creating a line of hair products geared toward Black hair.

Madam C.J. Walker

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In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619
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Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
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Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?
Who is BARACK OBAMA!!!!!
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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
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designs have saved thousands of lives since their invention. Take his traffic signal, which he patented in 1922. It was the first to offer a third “caution” signal, which we now know as the yellow light. And in 1912, Morgan received a patent for his “Breathing Device,” which was one of the earliest versions of a gas mask.    

Garrett Morgan

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transformed the way people around the world hear and transmit sound by co-inventing the foil electret microphone in 1962    

James West