BLACK HISTORY
African American Firsts
Black Women in History
100
What was the name of the African-American Woman who helped hundreds of slave escape to freedom?
Harriet Tubman
100
Who was the first African-American president?
Barack Obama
100
Starting with $1.50 cash, what college did Mary McCleod Bethune found?
Bethune-Cookman College
200
Who invented the 3-way traffic light?
Garrett A. Morgan
200
Jackie Robison was the first African-American to play major league baseball for what team?
Brooklyn Dodgers
200
What leading crusader against lynching founded the first black women's suffrage organization? 
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
300
Who sparked the Montgomery boycott of 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on the bus?
Rosa Parks
300
Who became the first African-American to win baseball's Most Valuable Player award?
Jackie Robinson
300
Who was the first black woman to own a TV studio?
Oprah Winfrey
400
What amendment to the constitution banned slavery?
13th amendment
400
Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
400
Who was the first African-American chosen as Miss America?
Vanessa Williams
500
What Harlem theatre is a showcase for African- American talent
The Apollo
500
What is the name of the first black Greek fraternity for college students?
Alpha Phi Alpha
500

This woman was a complex, unconventional and largely forgotten heroine of the civil rights movement who led the charge to desegregate the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., in 1957

Who is Daisy Bate