In the 1996 Olympic Games, he became the first athlete to win both the 200-and-400 meter races.
Who is Michael Johnson?
100
In 1966 Dr. Maulana Karenga created the first African-American holiday.
What is Kwanzaa?
100
The period of cultural rebirth that took place in Harlem, New York City.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
100
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks
200
First African-American to serve as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
Who is Colin Powell?
200
The first African American to coach a professional sports team.
Who is Bill Russell?
200
This botanist became famous for his agricultural science involving peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soy beans.
Who is George Washington Carver?
200
The first African American vocalist to sing with a white orchestra.
Who is Lena Horne?
200
What year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery?
What is 1865?
300
First all-Black 332d Fighter Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps, which escorted Allied bombers through European airspace on 1,578 missions during World War II?
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
300
The first African American to win baseball's Most Valuable Player award.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
300
She invented hair care products for African American women and traveled the country promoting her brand.
Who is Madame C.J. Walker?
300
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
300
With the 15th Amendment ratification in 1870, what did African Americans gain in the United States?
What is voting rights?
400
First African American to formally practice medicine.
Who is James Derham?
400
The first African American NBA basketball general manager.
Who is Wayne Embry?
400
In 1821 Thomas L. Jenning became the first African American to receive a patent for ______.
What is the dry-cleaning process.
400
First African-American owned-and-operated newspaper founded in New York City.
What is the Freedom's Journal?
400
Whose proposal that Congress consider civil rights legislation culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Who is John F. Kennedy?
500
The first Historically black college and university.
What is Cheyney University of Pennsylvania?
500
The boxer known as the “Brown Bomber?”
Who is Joe Louis?
500
Co-invented a microcomputer system for peripheral processing devices. Allows the use of computer plug-ins like disk drives, speakers, scanners etc
Who is Mark Dean?
500
Writer of the first published play by an African American: The Escape.
Who is William Wells Brown?
500
On May 17, 1954 this case declared that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional.