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

Who is BARACK OBAMA!!!!!

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An educator and activist, serving as president of the National Association of Colored Women and founding the National Council of Negro Women.  Founder of the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute in 1904, which later became Bethune-Cookman College.

Who is Mary McLeod Bethune

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In 2018 He became the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film " Dear Basketball".

Who is Kobe Byrant

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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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A charter member of the NAACP and an early advocate for civil rights and the suffrage movement. She became the first African-American woman ever appointed to a school board and then served on a committee that investigated alleged police mistreatment of African-Americans.

Who is Mary Church Terrell

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First Artist To Hit No. 1 In Four Separate Decades. thanks to 1994 Christmas classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”

Who is Mariah Carey 

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

What is Brown v. Board of Education

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The founding CEO of Technology Development Corporation, a computer software and technical services company. Greene was the recipient of the Purdue University Outstanding Electrical Engineer Award in 1999; was inducted into the Silicon Valley Hall of Fame in 2001;-

Who is Frank S. Greene Jr

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Which Black comedian holds the record for the longest run on Saturday Night Live? 

Who is Keenan Thompson

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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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Key figure in the development of Silicon Valley; Led the team that engineered HP's entrance into the computer market with the development of the 2116A computer in 1966

Who is Roy Clay Sr

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The first Black man to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony, collectively known as an EGOT. he performed the Academy Award–winning song “Glory” at the 2015 Oscars, which he co-wrote for the film “Selma?

Who is John Legend

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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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CEO of McAfee; he joined Intel, and later led the initiative to spin out McAfee, one of the largest, pure-play cybersecurity brands in the world.-

Who is Chris Young

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the first African American Female Principal Dancer with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre

Who is Misty Copeland