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He was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit
Who is Tiger Woods
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks
This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
He became the first African American president of the United States during the 2008 election?
Who is Barack Obama!!
The name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
A farmer and inventor who was responsible for creating peanut butter.
Who is George Washington Carver
He was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp
Who is Booker T. Washington
Who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
Who is Maya Angelou
This Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
Who was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
Who is Malcolm X
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker
This author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison
She was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
The main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
He was responsible for inventing the air conditioner in 1949.
Who is Frederick Jones
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
This Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott vs. Sandford
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
This man is widely known for the innovations he mad to the refrigerator in 1891, by developing a non-electrical and un-powered design.
Who is John Standard