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100

Who broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947 by starting at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers?

Who is Jackie Robinson

100
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and 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” and 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
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 organization was founded in 1909 and is known for its efforts to end segregation and fight for equal rights?

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

300

Who was the first African American woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court?

Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson

300
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
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 the Nation of Islam's most effective minister, known for his advocacy for black empowerment and his famous phrase, "By any means necessary"?

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
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
400
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
400

Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?

Who is Emmett Till

400

Which six-year-old girl became the first African American student to integrate an all-white elementary school in the South in 1960.

Who is Ruby Bridges

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

500

Who said "I’m very proud to be Black, but Black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am, nor is it the basis from which I answer every question."?

Who is Denzel Washington

500

Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?

Who is Barack Obama

500

Where was the racially motivated attack on the 16th Street Baptist Church which caused the death of four girls?

Where is Birmingham, Alabama 

500

Which artist performed in the 2025 Superbowl Halftime Show?

Who is Kendrick Lamar