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100
The first African American to play in the MLB.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
100
This is what HBCU stands for.
What is "Historically Black College and University?"
100
Booker T. Washington was the founder and president of this educational institution.
What is the Tuskegee Institute?
100
This 6-year-old is responsible for desegregating schools in 1960.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
100
Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat served as the catalyst for the Montgomery Bus Boycott during this year.
What is December 1955?
200
He won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany.
Who is Jesse Owens?
200
The BLM Movement stands for this central belief.
What is Black Lives Matter?
200
This black hair entrepreneur was the first self-made female millionaire in the US.
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
200
The first Black woman to enter space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
200
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream Speech” in this month and year.
What is August 1963?
300
This writer and activist penned the bestselling memoir “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".
Who is Maya Angelou?
300
NAACP stands for this...
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
300
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?
300
The first African American to hold a seat on the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
300
President Abraham Lincoln issued this executive order on January 1, 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
The 1956 autobiography entitled "Lady Sings The Blues", is based on this singer's life.
Who is Billie Holiday?
400
This civil rights organization began in Montgomery and was an offshoot of the Montgomery Improvement Association.
What is the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)?
400
This Constitutional Amendment gave Blacks equal protection under the law....
What is the 14th amendment?
400
The first woman and first Black American to run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
400
This organization formed on Feb. 12, 1909.
What is the NAACP?
500
This composer wrote Lift Every Voice and Sing (The Negro National Anthem).
Who is James Weldon Johnson?
500
This was the first Black-owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
What is BET Black Entertainment Television?
500
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?
500
The first Black writer to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.
Who is Toni Morrison?
500
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was integrated by the Little Rock Nine in this year.
What is September, 1957?