He was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.
Who is Tiger Woods?
100
She said, 'I can say what most conductors can't say - I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger'.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
This 1954, 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 sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
An American born performer known for her barely-there dresses and no-holds-barred dance routines, earned her the nickname "Black Pearl". Despite being a major celebrity in Europe, she was reject in the United States due to racism, and was refused service at New York's popular Stork Club in 1951.
Who is Josephine Baker?
200
He was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?
200
He said "The time is always right to do what is right".
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
200
This 1857 Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
200
This civil rights organization for ethnic minorities was founded in 1909, by W.E.B. Du Bois.
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
200
She is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars.
Who is Beyonce Knowles?
300
He was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
She 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
This 1896 Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
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 female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
400
In 1936, she served on the first Federal Council of Negro Affairs, created by President F.D. Roosevelt, as the only woman on the 45 member council. Her prime goal was the betterment of African American lives through education.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
400
This famous athlete boxer said "Hating people because of their color is wrong, and it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."
Who is Muhammad Ali?
400
She was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
400
On April 15, 1947, Brooklyn Dodger player #42 made history as the first African American Major League Baseball. His jersey number is the only MLB-wide retired number.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
400
In 1955, this fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman.
Who is Emmett Till?
500
In this year, the first Africans were brought to America to work as slaves.
What is 1619?
500
This 19th century African American abolitionist, lecturer, writer and publisher, escaped slavery at the age of 20 after teaching himself to read, and said "Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
500
In 2008, he became the first African American to be elected as president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
500
This event was a racially motivated attack on a church, which caused the death of four girls in Alabama.
What is the Alabama Church Bombing?
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.