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400

Key provisions of this federal legislation included: Equal Employment Opportunity, Public Accommodation, Desegregation of Public Facilities, Desegregation of Public Education and Voting Rights?

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

400

She was the first Black American woman chosen as Miss America

Who is Vanessa Williams?

400

Served as a nurse, scout and spy for the Union Army during the Civil War

Who was Harriet Tubman?

400

He holds the record for most points scored in a single basketball game (100)

Who is Wilt Chamberlin?

400

She was the first accredited Black American female dentist

Who is Dr. Ida Gray?

400

Black American who invented the air brake

Who is Granville T. Woods?

800

Enacted in 1865 and 1866 and restricting freed slaves from renting or purchasing property, what laws limited the movement of the freed slaves?

What were the Black Codes?

800

The Guinness Book of Worlds Record lists what Michael Jackson album as the best selling album of all time.

What is Thriller?

800

In 1996, Jesse Jackson, Jr. became a U.S. representative from what state?

What is Illinois?

800

Who was named NBA rookie of the year in 1965, his first year as a center for the New York Knicks?

Who is Willis Reed?

800

What doctor attended President James Garfield after he was shot?

Who was Dr. Charles Purvis?

800

He invented the gas mask

Who is Garrett Morgan?

1200

On January 3, 1964, who did Time Magazine name as the first Black American “Man of the Year”?

Who was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr?

1200

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Face in 1992, who recorded the song, "Twist and Shout"?

Who are The Isley Brothers?

1200

Roscoe Robinson, Jr. served as a Four Star General in what branch of the military?

What is the United States Army?

1200

Who was the first Black American to play in the National Hockey League?

Who was Val James?

1200

On January 28, 1986, what space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after lift-off, killing Dr. Ronald McNair and six of his colleagues?

What was Space Shuttle Challenger?

1200

Inventor of bullet resistant Plexiglass

Who is Emmanuel L. Logan?

1600

Who did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. call “My Spiritual Advisor”?

Who is Benjamin E. Mays?

1600

He published The Escape, the first play written by an African American

Who was William Wells Brown?

1600

Established by Congress in 1866 as the first peacetime all-black regiments in the regular U.S. Army, what soldiers were originally members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas?

Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?

1600

In 1956, Althea Gibson became the first African American woman to win a Grand Slam title in what sport?

What is tennis?

1600

He convinced doctors to use blood plasma for transfusions

Who was Dr. Charles Drew?

1600

He invented portable refrigeration

Who is Frederick McKinley Jones?

2000

Black Revolutionary Crispus Attucks led colonial forces during what conflict in 1770?

What is the Boston Massacre?

2000
This person wrote "The Autobiography of Malcolm X"?

Who was Alex Haley?

2000

Roscoe Robinson, Jr. served as a Four Star General in what branch of the military?

Who was Captain Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.?

2000

Before being christened the Harlem Globetrotters, what was this basketball team‟s name?

What is the Savoy Big Five?

2000

Who predicted the eclipse on the sun in 1789?

Who was Benjamin Banneker?

2000

Inventor of the smallpox vaccine

Who is Dr. Louis Wright?