Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Tiger Woods
100
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Harriet Tubman
100
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
Brown v. Board of Education
100
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Rosa Parks
100
Who is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” who was named after his father and the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay?
Muhammad Ali
200
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Colin Powell
200
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
200
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
Dred Scott v. Sandford
200
What was the name of the organization founded by W.E.B. DuBois?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
200
Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Beyonce
300
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
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."?
Maya Angelou
300
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
Plessy v. Ferguson
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
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
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")
Toni Morrison
400
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."?
Muhammad Ali
400
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Shirley Chisholm
400
Who was a major figure within 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?
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
400
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi?
Emmett Till
500
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
1619
500
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Morgan Freeman
500
Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?
BARACK OBAMA
500
What was the name of the organization that MLK served as its first president?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
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?