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100
What act did MLK make Lyndon B Johnson sign? (+100 points)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
100
who broke the color barrier in baseball and became the first African American to play in the major leagues?
Jackie Robinson
100
________ invented the world’s first hair-straightening formula and/or the hot comb.
Madam Walker
100
"i have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character"
Martin Luther king
100
most famous boxers of all time
Muhammad Ali
200
What did the 13th amendment outlaw?
Slavery
200
who is the first African American President, the third African American and the first African American male Democrat to be elected to the U.S. Senate since reconstruction?
Barack Obama,Jr.
200
Name at least two people who contributed to help creating the NAACP?
W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington..
200
“You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.”
Frederick Douglass
200
an African-American author, playwright, poet, dancer, actress, and singer.She is best known, however, for her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969).
Maya Angelou
300
what is the The Missouri Compromise Act
Provision prohibiting the holding and ownership of slaves in the territory of the United States north of the line
300
who is the First Black astronaut to travel in space (1983)?
Guion Bluford
300
who is credited with performing the first open heart surgery on July 9, 1853.
Daniel Williams
300
“I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.”
Oprah Winfrey
300
who advocated for both the establishment of a separate black community by using violence in self defense
Malcolm X
400
Brown v. Board of Education issue was..?
the race-based segregation of children into “separate but equal” public schools violated the 14th amendment
400
who was the first Black teenagers to attend the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas (1957)?
Little Rock Nine
400
in 1872, ________ McCoy developed an automatic lubricator that spread oil evenly over a train's engine while it was still moving
Elijah
400
"you cant win unless you learn how to lose" (150+ points)
Kareem Jabbar
400
____________ responded by crusading for racial equality, refusing to entertain in any club or theater that was not integrated, and thereby breaking the color bar at many establishments. (double jeopardy)
Josephine Baker
500
these laws restricted African American freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt. what were these laws called?
Black codes
500
who was the first African American congresswoman to serve from K. Buffalo Soldiers the Deep South, who participated in the hearings held by the House Judiciary Committee for the impeachment of President Nixon
Barbara Jordan
500
Who revolutionized agriculture in the South, transforming its economy. (+100 points)
George Washington Carver
500
“The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself – the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us – that’s where it’s at." (Double jeopardy)
Jesse Owens
500
______discovered a method of separating and storing blood plasma, allowing for the creation of blood banks to help in emergencies (full name=50+ points)
Dr. Charles Drew