Shani Davis of Chicago is the 1st Black male athlete to win an individual gold medal in the 1000-meter speed skating competition at these Olympic Games.
What is the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy?
100
The number of demands presented to then NU President Knowels in 1968, by a small number of Black students, for more protection and equal opportunity.
What are 13?
100
In 1955, the Supreme Court ruled in this case that school systems must abolish their racially dual systems, and could do so "with all deliberate speed."
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
She is the 1st African American President of an Ivy league Institution, and is the 1st Woman President of Brown University.
Who is Dr. Ruth J. Simmons?
100
For the 1st time in U.S. history, Blacks are no longer the largest group of color, this group in 2003 surpassed it.
What is the Latino community?
200
Movies with portrayals that brought the first dual African American Oscar winning Best Actor & Actress performances to Halle Berry and Denzel Washington.
What are Monster's Ball and Training Day?
200
Begun in 1972, this student ran newpaper still serves as a voice for Black student engagement at NU.
What is the Onyx?
200
In 2005, over 1700 lives were lost in one of the worst disasters in U.S. History, and majority of the dead were Black brothers & sisters swept away by the relentless Mississippi waters.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
200
Condoleezza Rice is the 1st African American woman, and only the 2nd woman after Madeleine K. Albright, to hold this government position.
What is National Security Advisor?
200
In 2005, over 1700 lives were lost in one of the worst disasters in U.S. History, and majority of the dead were Black brothers & sisters swept away by the relentless Mississippi waters and failed flood levees.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
300
The 1st African American to be elected to Boston's School Committee in 1977.
Who is John Donaldson O'Bryant?
300
These 2 major catalysts, the 1st in February, & the other in April of '68, inspired Black students at NU to present the 13 Demands.
What is the Orangeburg Massacre & the Assasination of Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.?
300
The Supreme Court ordered this university on February 3, 1956, to admit its 1st Black student.
What is the University of Alabama?
300
L. Douglas Wilder was the 1st African American to be elected govenor of a state (VA); this man was second of MA.
Who is Deval Patrick?
300
The birth date of Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
What is January 15, 1929?
400
Tony Dungy is the 1st African American Super Bowl winning head coach in the National Footbal League of this team.
Who are the Indianapolis Colts?
400
This street in Roxbury was dedicated to Civil War hero Dr. Joseph Warren who headed the White Masons in Boston, & denied entry to Prince Hall who then founded Black Masonry in America.
What is Warren St.?
400
In Easley v. Cromartie (2001), the Supreme Court ruled this can be considered in determining congressional redistricting plans as long as it is not the dominant and controlling decision.
What is Race?
400
In 2004, he became the 1st African American to hold a MA House leadership position.
Who is Byron Rushing?
400
The number of miles between Selma and Montgomery Alabama.
What is 54?
500
Phylicia Rashad is the 1st Black woman to win a Tony Award for her portrayal of matriarch Lena Younger in this Lorraine Hansberry 1959 play.
What is a Raisin in the Sun?
500
The original name of the John D. O'Bryant African American Institute.
What is the Afro-American Institute?
500
The Supreme Court trial that caused the Interracial Marriage Ban, enacted in 1664, to finally be over-turned in 1967.
What is the Loving v. Virginia Trial?
500
In late 2004, this city held the Democratic National Convention, where a then Senator Obama gave a speech that catapulted him into the national spotlight.
What is Boston?
500
The year the U.S. Census Bureau projections indicate non-Hispanic whites will be the minority population in the United States of America.