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This person was the first African American to be appointed to the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman
This person served two terms as president from 2008-2016.
Who is Barack Obama?
This movement was created by Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza, and Patrisse Cullors in response to the killing of unarmed black men.
What is Black Lives Matter?
This rapper is from Fayetteville, NC and went platinum without any features?
Who is J.Cole?
This person was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State
Who is Colin Powell
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
This person was the first African American to be elected governor of Virginia.
Who is L. Douglas Wilder?
This 5-day 54 mile march was conducted in Alabama to protest against unfair voter registration practices.
What is the Selma-to-Montgomery March?
This person 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
This person was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp
Who is Booker T. Washington
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
This woman served as the senior advisor to President Barack Obama
Who is Valerie Jarrett?
This campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi, which had historically excluded most blacks from voting.
What is Mississippi Summer?
This person became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
This 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
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
This person was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
These riots took place after the officers who beat Rodney King were acquitted.
What is the LA Riots?
This fourteen year old black boy was lynched for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
Who is Emmet Till?
This person was the first African American to receive an Oscar.
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
This person was the first African American to be elected to the United States Senate.
Who is Hiram Revels?
This movement was founded by Max Sanford and was dedicated to destruction of capitalism and racism.
What is the Revolutionary Action Movement?
This person 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