Who is the novelist, poet, and civil rights activist best known for her autobiographical work "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
Maya Angelou
100
Who was the first black woman Secretary of State?
Condoleeza Rice
100
Who is the abolitionist that grew up in slavery and married John Tubman in 1844?
Harriet Tubman
200
Who is the only player in NBA history to score 100 points in a single game?
Wilt Chamberlain
200
Who is the R&B and soul singer/songwriter renowned for her passionate stage performances including her distinctive high-octave vocal range?
Patti LaBelle
200
Who is the first African-American poet to win the Pulitzer Prize?
Gwendolyn Brooks
200
Who is the first African-American President of the U.S.?
Barack Obama
200
Who is the Baptist minister and civil rights leader that was assassinated in 1968?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
300
Who was the first African American to play in baseball's major leagues?
Jackie Robinson
300
Who is the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist that sings "Superstition"?
Stevie Wonder
300
Who is the writer, educator, and civil rights leader that shared in the creation of the NAACP?
W.E.B. Du Bois
300
Who was the first African-American to win an Academy Award for Best Actress (in 2001 for Monster's Ball)?
Halle Berry
300
Who is the individual whose refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus helped launch nation-wide efforts to end segregation of public facilities?
Rosa Parks
400
Who holds the records in the 100-meter and 200-meter races, and as an Olympian, won 3 gold medals and 2 silvers?
Florence "Flo-Jo" Griffith-Joyner
400
Who was the first woman, and first hip-hop artist to win 5 Grammy Awards?
Lauryn Hill
400
Who is the novelist that received the National Book Critics Circle Award for "A Lesson Before Dying"?
Ernest Gaines
400
Who was the first African-American appointed to the Supreme Court (1963)?
Thurgood Marshall
400
Who is the leader of black nationalism in the United States (1960s) and originator of its rallying slogan "black power"?
Stokely Carmichael
500
Who was the first female member of the Harlem Globetrotters?
Lynette Woodard
500
Who is the singer/songwriter famous for wearing a white glove?
Michael Jackson
500
Who is the novelist and civil rights activist most famous for the critically acclaimed novel "The Color Purple"?
Alice Walker
500
Who was the first black appointed to the rank of general (1940)?
Hint: His son, Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr., was the first black general in the Air Force.
Benjamin Oliver Davis
500
Who is the boy brutally murdered at age 14 for allegedly flirting with a white woman?