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This day is known as the Black independence Day or Freedom Day.
June 19, 1865 or Juneteenth
"The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
The device known as the cellular phone was invented by which black inventor?
Who is Henry T. Sampson
I was the first African American Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World.
Jack Johnson
First African American woman to win a bronze medal in the winter Olympics for figure skating
Who is Debi Thomas
This act of love was banned in the United States from 1664 and not overturned until 1967.
What is Interracial Marriage
"I never ran my train off the track and never lost a passenger"?
Who is Harriet Tubman
He was a Botanist and an inventor. He researched peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soy beans and made many new products from them.
Who is George W. Carver
I wrote the following poem....
Maya Angelou
He was an American Track and Field Athlete and four time Olympic Gold Medalist
Jesse Owens
January 1 1863 President Abraham Lincoln gave this, which declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free”. It was limited in several ways as it only applied to the states that had seceded from the United States.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And, it doesn't matter which color does the hating. Its just plain wrong"?
Who is Muhammad Ali
In October of 1914 and November of 1923, he created these two things, Gas Mask and the Traffic light.
Who is Garrett Morgan
I am the 44th and first African American to become president of the United States of America.
Barack Obama
He Courageously broke baseball's color barrier in 1947 - a time when segregation was the social norm in America
Who is Jackie Robinson
The first known protest against slavery was by this group of White Christians who were devoted to peaceful principles.
Who is/are Quakers
"Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything"?
Who is Colin Kaepernick
DAILY DOUBLE
Who is Madam C.J. Walker
I was a Former Slave who earned the money to buy the freedom of himself and his brother. I am considered the founder African Methodist Episcopal Church in America which now has a membership of over 2.5 million people. My home and Bethel AME were both stops on the Underground Railroad. In attempts to educate former slaves and freedmen I opened a day school for African American children and a night school for adults.
Who is Richard Allen
He was the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy in 1985 and MVP of baseball in the All-Star Game in 1989
Who is Bo Jackson
By threatening to withhold federal funding from any hospital who practiced racial discrimination, this program that was passed in 1964 forced the desegregation of every hospital in America virtually overnight.
What is Medicare
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed"?
Who is Booker T. Washington
As a nurse, I invented the first Home Security System
Marie Ban Brittan Brown
I was one of Duke’s most revered doctors. I was the second black woman to become a board certified pediatric cardiologist in the United States and one of the first African American students to attend Duke University.
Dr. Brenda Armstrong
She is the 2012 Olympic all around champion and the 2015 World all-around silver medalist.
Who is Gabby Douglas