African American Players (Sports)
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African American First
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African American man who won 82 PGA Tour titles.

Who is Tiger Woods

100

Who said, ¨Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.¨

Who is Martin Luther King

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American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement.

Who Is Martin Luther King

100

a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.

What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott

100

First African American President

Who is Barack Obama 

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Man who broke the NBA all time scoring record.

Who is Lebron James

200

Who said, ¨You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.¨

Who is Rosa Parks

200

American abolitionist and social activist. After escaping slavery, This person made 13 missions to rescue 70 enslaved people.

Who is Harriet Tubman

200

the event at which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his most famous speech.

What is March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

200

First African American Supreme Court Judge

Who is Thurgood Marshall

300

African American man who was the Longest-Reigning Heavyweight Boxing Champion.

Who is Joe Louis

300

Who said, ¨To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.¨

Who is Nelson Mandela.

300

American civil rights activist. This person was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana.

Who is Ruby Bridges

300

an American civil rights activist, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m.

What is the Assassination of Martin Luther King

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First African American woman to win a Grammy

Who is Ella Fitzgerald

400

African American man who has the most Touchdowns in the NFL

Who is Jerry Rice

400

Who said, "For no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me."

Who is Harriet Tubman

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American professional baseball player who became the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball.

Who is Jackie Robinson

400

a period of intense public resistance in New Orleans that followed the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.

What is New Orleans school desegregation crisis.

400

First Professional NBA African American Head Coach

Who is Bill Russell

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First African American Formula One racer

Who is Lewis Hamilton 

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Who said, ¨Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time.¨

Who is Barack Obama

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Teenager who was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus, nine months before Rosa Parks.

Who is Claudette Colvin

500

a 14-year-old African American youth, who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman.

What was the murder of Emmett Till

500

First African American astronaut to travel in space

Guion Bluford