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This 6 year old is responsible for desegregating schools in 1960. 
Who is Ruby Bridges?
100
Barack Obama was made President of the United States in this year.
What is 2009?
100
He started a Muslim newspaper with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Muhammad Speaks. Also, well known for the slogan "By Any Means Necessary"...
Who is Malcom X?
100
He was the first African American Major League Baseball player.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
100
Set in Chicago, this show celebrates the African American family dynamic with daily visits from their nerdy neighbor, Steve Urkel.
What is “Family Matters"?
200
This comedian was born in South Carolina, but grew up in Brooklyn, New York.
Who is Chris Rock?
200
Booker T. Washington was the founder and president of this educational institution.
Tuskegee Institute
200
Finish this Muhammad Ali quote "Float Like a butterfly..."
What is "Sting like a bee"?
200
This was the first Black-owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
What is BET Black Entertainment Television?
200
Hip Hop was birthed in this part of New York City.
What is the Bronx?
300
The first Black writer to win a Nobel Prize in Literature
Who is Toni Morrison?
300
This is what HBCU stand for.
What is "Historically Black College and University?"
300
During her run for president, three separate assassination attempts were made this candidate...
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
300
This black hair entrepreneur invented the hot comb.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
300
In this 1988 film, Eddie Murphy plays the son of a King who relocated to Queens, NY.
What is Coming to America?
400
She didn't give up their seat to a white man on a Montgomery Bus in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
400
This Black Greek Male Fraternity, known Kappa Alpha Psi, is located at this college.
Where is Indiana University in Bloomington?
400
He won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany.
Who is Jesse Owens?
400
The first black woman to own a TV studio.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
400
She won an Academy Award in 1939 for best supporting actress for Gone With the Wind.
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
500
This person was born in Massachusetts, was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D from Harvard and wrote 'Souls of Black Folk'.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
500
The Emancipation Proclamation went into effect at the first of this year.
What is 1863?
500
She wrote the bestselling memoir “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”.
Who is Maya Angelou?
500
This is the first Constitutional Amendment that gave African-Americans equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th amendment?
500
This movie told the story of African-American women and their role at NASA as rocket scientist.
What is Hidden Figures?
600
He is the inventor of peanut butter.
Who is George Washington Carver?
600
The Rosa Parks’ bus boycott started on this date.
What is December 1955?
600
She is first African-American women to be Vice-President of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
600
The first Black governor of Virginia.
Who is Douglas Wilder?
600
He plays Nick Fury in the Marvel Movie Series
Who is Samuel L. Jackson?
700
First Black woman to enter space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
700
This organization was formed Feb. 12, 1909 and has five initials.
What is "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"?
or
What is the "NAACP"?
700
He wrote Lift Every Voice and Sing, The Negro National Anthem.
Who is James Weldon Johnson?
700
The name that makes up all of the Black Greek Letter Organizations.
*Hint* There are 9
What is the Divine 9?
700
Started as a stand up comedian on Chicago Subway Trains.
Who is Bernie Mac?
800
This case resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that no black-free or slave could be a US citizen.
What is the Dred Scott case?
800
When did Martin Luther King Jr. give his “I Have A Dream Speech”?
What is Aug. 28, 1963
800
In 1959 he founded the Motown Record corporation, the first recording home of The Temptations, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Smoky Robinson, and Stevie Wonder.
Who is Berry Gordy Jr.?
800
This man discovered the process for separating whole blood to make blood plasma.
Dr. Charles Drew?
800
The first African American actress to win an Academy Award for best actress.
Who is Halle Berry?
900
He started the "Back to Africa Movement" and was later deported back to his homeland in Jamaica.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
900
In 1857, this thriving community of predominantly African-American homeowners were forced to move after the city of New York acquired the land through eminent domain to build what we now know as Central Park.
What is Seneca Village or Seneca Falls Village?
900
Started on Saturday Night Live when he was just 19 years old.
Who is Eddie Murphy?
900
He invented the gas mask and the 1st traffic signal.
Who is Garrett Morgan ?
900
This 1956 autobiography entitled "Lady Sings The Blues", is based on this singer's life
Who is Billie Holiday?
1000
First African American to hold a seat on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
1000
When did the celebration of Black History Month begin?
What is 1926
1000
This African American 16-year old girl led a student strike for equal education at R.R. Moton High School in Farmville, Virginia
What is Barbara Johns?
1000
The first group of students integrated a high school located in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
1000
Known for their Gospel hit with the lyrics "take the shackles off my feet so I can dance".
Who is Mary Mary?