This law or "Act" prohibits discrimination based on race, color, national origin, and religion in the sale, rental,and financing of housing.
What is the Fair Housing Act?
100
"Our moto is when they go low, we go high."
Who is Michelle Obama?
100
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
Her refusal to give up her seat on a public bus earned her the title, The First Lady of Civil Rights.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
She is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 100 million dollars and is also one of the artist for Dan Galloway's ring tone....FLAWLESS?
Who is Beyonce?
200
This historic theatre located at 620 T Street, NW opened its doors in 1910 hosting many great Black musical artists and was restored in 2012.
What is Howard Theatre?
200
"I look to a day where people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
200
The first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?
200
This popular movie portrays the accomplishments of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African American women "computers" who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes.
What is Hidden Figures?
200
This tennis player has a record 39 major titles in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles.
Who is Serena Williams?
300
A former slave turned renowned abolitionist influenced President Lincoln to write the Emancipation Proclamation and whose home is a National Historic site in Anacostia.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
300
"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."
Who is Muhammad Ali?
300
This Washington DC mayor earned the moniker "mayor for life".
Who is Mayor Marion Barry?
300
He 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
She became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
400
This popular NW neighborhood is named after the white colonel of the all-black Massachusetts 54th Regiment as portrayed by actor Matthew Broderick in the 1989 film Glory.
What is Shaw? Named after Col Robert Gould Shaw.
400
"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?
400
She is 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
He was an American poet, novelist, and playwright whose African-American themes made him a primary contributor to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Popular DC restaurant Busboy and Poets is reflective of his early life.
Who is Langston Hughes?
500
This now popular "Corridor" was once known as Washington's "Black Broadway" between the 1920s and the 1950s.
What is U St Corridor?
500
"I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger."
Who is Harriet Tubman?
500
This African American was elected President of the United States in 2008 and 2012.
Who is Barack Obama?
500
This Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
He 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?