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Although she spent part of her childhood unable to walk because of a disease called Rickets, she became the first US woman to win double gold in the 100 and 200 sprints at the Rome Olympics in 1960.
Who is Wilma Rudolf?
100
Name the American music style made popular by African American musicians in the 1920’s and 1930’s.
What is Jazz
100
Founded in 1915 in New Orleans, Louisiana, is the oldest African American College with the distinction of being the only historically Black Roman Catholic institution of higher education.
What is Xavier University
100
As the first person from New York of African American descent to be elected to Congress, He helped desegregate schools, the military, and the state capitol while he served as Harlem Congressman and Civil Rights Activist.
Who is Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
100
This African-American psychiatrist made significant contributions to the study of Alzheimer's disease.
Who is Solomon Carter Fuller
200
She burst onto the figure skating scene in 1986 when she won the National and World Championship Olympic titles during her freshman year at Stanford University
Who is Debbie Thomas
200
America’s most famous jazz trumpeter. He is most remembered today for a song he didn’t want to record “Wonderful World”.
Who is Louis Armstrong
200
Name the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary that opened in 1881 and later changed its name to this?
What is Spelman College.
200
Who was the first Black to hold a Cabinet position at the national level?
Who is Dr. Robert Clifton Weaver
200
Traffic lights were invented by?
Who is Garrett A. Morgan
300
What NFL player, elected to the Hall of Fame, was the first African American to serve on the Minnesota Supreme Court?
Who is Alan Page
300
A rock and roll original this guitar player was no ding-a-ling. He successfully sued the Beach Boys for copying his music... and won!
Who is Chuck Berry
300
In 1882, Booker T. Washington founded this college to train African-Americans in the field of Education Agriculture and Industry?
What is Tuskegee Institute
300
Who was the first Black woman U.S. Sentor serving from 1992 - 1998?
Who is Carol Moseley Braun
300
Who was the first black astronaut to walk in space?
Who is Bernard Harris Jr.
400
Who did Arthur Ashe beat in 1975 to become the first African American to win the Singles title at Wimbledon?
Who is Jimmy Connors
400
Before beginning his solo career, this African American was a member of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack.
Who is Sammie Davis, Jr.
400
Patrick Francis Healy became the President of which university that made him the first Black President of a private predominately White University?
What is Georgetown University
400
In addition to being the first black woman elected to Congress, she became the first black candidate of the Democratic Party for President of the United States in 1972.
Who is Shirley Chisolm
400
This man's research companies Gourdine Laboratories, in Livingston, New Jersey Energy Innovation, in Houston, Texas developed engineering techniques to aid removing smoke from buildings, disperse fog from airport runways, and convert low-grade coal into inexpensive, transportable and high-voltage electrical energy.
Who is Meridith Gourdine
500
Who became the first African American woman to sit on the International Olympic Committee?
Who is Anita DeFrantz
500
Name the Big Band leader of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote "Take the A Train" and "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing).
Who is Duke Ellington
500
What is the name of the first Black newspaper?
What is the Freedom's Journal
500
Who made a speech at the National Negro Convention in 1843 that made people regard him as one of the most militant abolitionist?
Who is Rev. Henry Garnet
500
Her contributions to the nascent field of chemotherapy have led some to call her “the Mother of Chemotherapy.”
Who is Dr. Jane C. Wright