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Who is the first African American to be president of the United States?
Who is Barack Obama?
100
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman
100
What Supreme Court case decided that blacks and white can go to school together?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
This brave young girl refused to give her seat on an Alabama bus but did not become as famous Rosa Parks.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
100
This man that became famous for his many uses of the peanut.
Who is George Washington Carver?
200
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell?
200
Who said "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that"?
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?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
200
What is the name of the church were four little girls were bombed in Alabama?
What is the 16th Avenue Baptist Church?
200
This woman is the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars.
Who is Beyonce Knowles Carter?
300
Who is the first African American professional golf champion?
Who is Tiger Woods?
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 that decided segregation was legal as long as "separate facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
Martin Luther King, Jr. learned the practice of nonviolence from this person who lived in India.
Who is Gandhi?
300
Who became the first African American female millionaire because of her black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
400
Who became the first African-American woman to be the Secretary of State?
Who is Condoleezza Rice?
400
A victim of police violence, this person's last words were "I can't breathe."
Who is Eric Garner?
400
Who was the first African American woman to run for President of the United States of America?
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
400
This young Baptist pastor became the main leader in the civil rights movement.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
400
This famous Black historian established Negro History Week, which eventually became Black History Month.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
500
Who was the first female astronaut?
Who is Dr. Mae Jemison?
500
Who said, "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history"?
Who is Morgan Freeman
500
This civil rights lawyer eventually became the first African American supreme court judge.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
500
What year was Freedom Summer?
1964
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He invented the traffic signal and also the gas mask used by firemen in the early 1900s.
Who is Garret A. Morgan?