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Who said "I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."
Harriet Tubman
Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
Who was the first African American Female Millionaire?
Madame C.J. Walker
Who is considered the " Father of Black History "
Dr. Carter G. Woodson
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, Alabama buses from 1955-1956
Rosa Parks
Who said " If there is no struggle, there is no progress "
Frederick Douglass
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Booker T. Washington
An African American Women's rights activist and abolitionist born into slavery but escaped to freedom in 1826
Who is Sojourner Truth
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 said " Bringing the gift that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."
Maya Angelou
Which African American was elected President of the United States in 2008?
BARACK OBAMA
Which author became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: She is well know for her most famous literature piece " The Bluest Eye" )
Toni Morrison
Fourteen year old Black boy who was lynched for whistling at a White woman
Who is Emmet Till
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?
First Lady Michelle Obama
Which Amendment of the constitution protects the rights of African Americans?
What is the 13th Amendment
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Colin Powell
"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
What racially motivated attack caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
Alabama Church Bombing
Who said "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men"
Frederick Douglass
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
Who was the first African American invited to dine at the White House?
Booker T. Washington
Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was the first African American admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
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 Price for leading non-violent civil rights demonstrations?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.