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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
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman
100

Which president was elected president in 2008?

Who is Barack Obama!!!!!

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 NBA Star was a 5 time NBA champion, a two time scoring leader, and a one-time MVP constantly known for his desire to win.

Who is Kobe Bryant

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

This form of nonviolent protest was used in the Civil Rights Movement where individuals would remain in segregated spaces even after being told to leave.

Sit-In

200

This influential hip hop artist under the Death Row record label “Ain’t Mad at Cha” had seven of his eleven albums go platinum after his untimely death in 1996.

Who is Tupac Shakur

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

“It is just a wrong… to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.” And “Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.” These are two quotes from a civil rights leader that came from a specific written piece after his arrest in 1963. (500 points for leader and 500 points for the written work)

MLK

Letter from Birmingham Jail

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
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
500

What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?

What is Brown vs. the Board of Education

500
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
500

This African American author and sociologist wrote books such as The Souls of Black Folks and The Souls of Black Folks. He also was one of the founders of the NAACP.

W.E.B. Du Bois