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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
100

True or False... In 1819, at the time of its founding, MC was racially integrated, one of the first of its kind in the state of Tennessee

What is True

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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
100
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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Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
200

In 1880, this graduate became MC's first African American alumnus...

Who is William H Franklin

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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 is the name of the organization founded by W.E.B Dubois & Ida B. Wells?

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

Maryville College resumed its former integration policy when the US Supreme Court declared US School segregation laws unconstitutional in this year...

What is 1954

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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
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

When she received her diploma in 1960, she became the first African American student to graduate from MC since 1898.

Who is Nancy Smith Wright

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

This global network founded in 2013 is a chapter based, member led organization whose mission is to build local power and to intervene in violence afflicted on black communities

What is Black Lives Matter

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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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In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619
500

William H Franklin, the first African American graduate of Maryville College, founded this institute in 1883, which Maryville College partnered with to help educate African Americans when schools in Tennessee became segregated?

What is The Swift Memorial Institute

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Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?
Who is BARACK OBAMA!!!!!
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This organization is comprised of over 1,500 African Americans who identify as thought leaders, influencers, builders, and ambassadors. Collaboratively, these leaders volunteer their time, talents, and treasure to build a just society that works well for everyone.

What is the African American Leadership Forum (AALF)

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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