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Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods
The light bulb itself was perfected by Thomas Edison, but the innovation used to create longer-lasting light bulbs with a carbon filament came from this African American inventor.
Who is Lewis Latimer
What 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
This man is famous for giving us peanut butter, but he is also responsible for much more. As an agricultural chemist, in an effort to increase the profitability of sweet potatoes and peanuts he began conducting experiments in 1896 and created 518 new products from the crops.
Who is George Washington Carver
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Who is Beyonce Knowles
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington
In 1912, he received a patent for his “Breathing Device,” which was one of the earliest versions of a gas mask. And this person also developed a traffic signal, which he patented in 1922. It was the first to offer a third “caution” signal, which we now know as the yellow light.
Who is Garrett Morgan
Which 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
Which 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
This person filed a patent in 1966 for the first-ever home security system after wanting to increase her own house’s security in her Queens, New York, neighborhood. Her original design contained a camera, a two-way microphone, peepholes, and monitors, all serving as the foundations for today’s modern systems.
Who is Marie Van Brittan Brown
Which U.S. Supreme Court case ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
What is Loving v. Virginia
Who was 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
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619
This person was closely involved with the 1995 creation of Shockwave as a software engineer, the technology that helped to develop web animation. She also helped launch Hulu and served on the senior management team.
Who is Lisa Gelobter
What supreme court decision upheld affirmative action's constitutionality in education, as long it employed a "highly individualized, holistic review of each applicant's file" and did not consider race as a factor in a "mechanical way"?
What is Grutter v. Bollinger
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
This person said "Black history is American history".
Who is Morgan Freeman