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As a 6-year-old, I entered an all-white school.

Who is Ruby Bridges?

100

This man had a dream that all people will be equal.

Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?

100

This is the team Jackie Robinson played for.

What is the Brooklyn Dodgers?

100

This is the month of Black History Month?

What is February?

100

Who was the first African American president

Barack Obama 

200

This woman refused to give her seat to a white man.

Who is Rosa Parks?

200

He was the first black President.

Who is Barack Obama?

200

This is the first African American in the major Leagues?

Who is Jackie Robinson?

200

This is an annual celebration of the Black heroes in history.

What is Black History Month?

200
  • Believed equality could be achieved by temporarily accepting social segregation (equal rights a little at a time). Who believed this?

Booker T. Washington

300

Who helped 300 slaves escape to freedom?

Harriet Tubman

300

Who is the first African American to play a major sport. When this player joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, baseball was segregated.

who is Jackie Robinson?

300

This is Jackie Robinson's number?

What is 42?

300

These are the colors that represent Black History Month.

What is red, green, black and yellow.

300
  • Believed equality could be gained by fighting for civil rights -- right now.

  • Founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

Who believed this?


W.E.B. DuBois

400

Who is Serena Williams?

African American female tennis player

400

Who is the first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, as well as the country's first black head of state?

Who is Nelson Mandela?

400

This famous African American won 4 medals in the Berlin Olympics?

Who is Jesse Owens?

400

Who started Black History Month in 1976?

Carter G. Woodson

400

laws created a system of legal segregation are called what?

Jim Crow Laws

500

who is She was only 12 when she became the first female African American author published?

who is Phillis Wheatley?

500

Who was Malcolm X?

Malcolm X was an African American leader in the civil rights movement, minister and supporter of Black nationalism.

500

This African American is your favorite basketball player

Any answer is accepted

500

This is your favorite part of Black History Month.

Any Answer is accepted

500

Discrimination against African Americans continued after Reconstruction is called

Segregation

600

When did Loretta Lynch become the first African American women to be a U.S Attorney General?

April 27, 2015

600

What are the names of Barack Obama's two daughters?

Malia and Sasha

600

Which Super Bowl did Mike Carey Referee?

XLII

600

Who was the first African American pilot to fly solo around the world?

Barrington Irving Jr.

600

When did Tyler Perry launch his own television studio?

2006

700

Who was the first African-American president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences?

Cheryl Boone

700

How did Robert Johnson become the first African American Billionaire?

He sold BET to Viacom for 3 billion.

700

Who was the first African-American to win the masters golf tournament?

Tiger Woods

700

Who was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and a great poet, activist, novelist and playwright?

Langston Hughes

700

Who was the First African american woman to win the academy award for best actress

Halle Berry

800

When was Lisa Perez Jackson Born

February 8, 1962

800

Though Thomas Edison is recognized as the inventor of the light bulb, Which African-America inventor played an important role in it's development.

Lewis Howard Latimer

800

Who was the first African-American president of an Ivy League institution?

Dr. Ruth Simmons

800

Who was the first African-American to graduate from Harvard?

Richard Theodore Greener

800

Who was the first African-American U.S. attorney general?

Eric Holder

900

What was one of Dr. Condoleezza Rice's famous quotes?

"We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war."

900

Who developed his stage name as a reference to New York's J/Z Subway which has a stop in Brooklyn?

Jay-Z

900

Who is named the King of Pop?

Michael Jackson

900

Who wrote the poem "Still I Rise"?

Maya Angelou

900

Who Is the first female African-American Billionaire?

Oprah Winfrey

1000

In 1993 this pediatrician became the first woman and the first African American to be named the U.S. Surgeon General.

Dr. Joycelyn Elders

1000

He played for the Los Angeles Lakers for 12 years, until he retired in 1991 due to his HIV diagnosis.

Magic Johnson

1000

What is Rogers Nelson's stage name?

Prince

1000

Who was one of the first African-American women to appear on the cover of Seventeen magazine?

Whitney Houston

1000

Aretha Franklin acted in only one movie, What is the name of that movie?


The Blues Brothers