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
This female singer was accepted in Columbia university on a full time scholarship but instead chose to pursue a music career
Who is Alicia Keys
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 Astronaut
Who is Robert H. Lawrence Jr.
200
Who said "I have a dream that one day little black boys and little black girls......"?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
200
This famous African American woman stopped celebrating her birthday for almost 30 years after the passing of Martin Luther King jr. Every day she would send flowers to Coretta Scott King. She wrote the famous poem "I know why the caged bird sings"
Maya Angelou
200
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
200
This African american is viewed as one of the top 50 greatest basketball players in NBA history. He is a 6 time NBA champion with the Chicago Bulls and dominated the 90's. he was even in the popular movie called Space Jam
Who is Michael Jordan
300
Who was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the 20th Century
Who is Jackie Robinson
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
One of the most famous writers in African american history actually majored in mechanical engineering in college and was forced to by his father. He is best known as the leader of the Harlem renaissance
Langston Hughes
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
He was the First African American Rhodes Scholar
Who is Alain Leroy Locke.
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 athlete said "Float like a butterfly sting like a bee"?
Who is Muhammad Ali
400
This man played high school basketball,and is actually could have played in college. He is famous for being a lot of first but the major one is becoming the first African American president in the United States.
Who is Barack Obama
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
This man is a member of the greek fraternity Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. He also dropped out of high school to join the Navy but only made it into to college on a track scholarship that he earned from temple university. He had his own show called " kids just say the darndest things"
Who is Bill Cosby
500
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown vs. Board of Education
500
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?