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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
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” was originally 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 “I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they’ll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.” 

Who is Malcom X

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 was the name of the organization founded by W.E.B. Du Bois?

What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

200

Who was the lead viral immunologist researcher in the creation of the Moderna vaccine?

Who is Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett

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

What group is known for instituting Free Breakfast for Children Programs to address food injustice and free community health clinics for education and treatment of diseases including sickle cell anemia, tuberculosis, and later HIV/AIDS?

What is the Black Panther Party

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 activist said “The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?”

Who is Angela Davis

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 “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim."

Who is Fredrick Douglass

500

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

Who is Barack Obama

500

What is the name given for the event that's national television coverage sparked outrage in which unarmed civil rights protesters marching from Selma to Montgomery were killed, attacked with clubs and tear gas?

What is Bloody Sunday

500

What organization called attention to the lack of intersectionality and mutual respect in the Civil Rights Movement and the White Feminism Movement?

What is the Combahee River Collective