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100
This tennis player set the record for most Grand slam victories and set the record for the most women’s single match victories at majors
Serena Williams
100
Who was the first female Black Supreme Court Justice?
What year was she confirmed?
Ketanji Brown Jackson
2022
100
This individual’s work in agricultural sustainability and preventing of soil depletion, led him to advocate American farmers to replace cotton plants with other crops, like peanuts.
George Washington Carver
100
Who was the first Black president?
BONUS: What year was he elected?
Barack Obama
2008
100
Who authored "If Beale St. Could Talk?"
What prominent Civil Rights leaders did he befriend?
James Baldwin
100
What year and war did the US military have their first African American regiment?
The Civil War; 1863
200
This is the first black player to play in the MLB, his number was retired by all MLB teams. Who was he and what was his number.
Jackie Robinson, #42
200
Who was the first female self-made billionaire?
Madame CJ Walker
200
This astronaut was an accomplished physicist and one of the first three Black astronauts who tragically passed in the challengers crash. What is his name?
Ronald E. McNair
200
What was the name of the Supreme Court case that ruled segregation in schools illegal?
BONUS: How many families were involved?Brown v. the Board of Education
Twelve
200
The Bluest Eye is a tragic story of an eleven year old girl named Pecola Breedlove who wishes to be loved by her family and classmates, but faces ridicule and criticism instead. Who authored this book?
BONUS: What did the author do before writing?
Toni Morison
She was an editor--the first Black woman editor at Random House (publishing).
200
Who led the first African American regiment in the US military?
General Robert Shaw
300
This NBA player won 11 NBA championships in his 13 year career, followed by a coaching gig with the same team
Bill Russell
300
Who was the first Black woman to win Best Supporting Actress Oscar?
Bonus: What movie did she win for?
Hattie McDaniel
Gone with the Wind
300
Lonnie George Johnson is a NASA aerospace engineer, who worked on missions primarily focused on the exploration of other planets, as well as projects with the U.S. Air Force on the stealth bomber project. He is also known for the invention of this popular children’s toy in 1990
Super Soaker
300
What was the name of the first Black schoolchild to attend an all white school in the US?
Ruby Bridges
300
Who is this? Where did she immigrate to?
Josephine Baker; France
300
Who was the first African American Department Of Defense Secretary?
Bonus- When was he appointed and by what president?
General Lloyd Austin
2021; elected by President Joe Biden
400
She was the first black female gymnast to be named to the US olympic team?
Luci Collins
400
Who was the first Black woman to be elected to Congress?
Shirley Chisolm
1968
400
Who invented the color computer monitor, and led a team at IBM to create the first gigahertz microchip?
Mark Dean
400
What court case ended the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
BONUS: What year?
Browder v. Gayle; ended segregation on public transportation
1956
400
What author led the first university course dedicated exclusively to female African American writers?
BONUS: What University?
Alice Walker
Brandeis University.
400
Who was Olivia Hooker?
Hint: This was part of women in the military slides from one of last semester's meetings
The first woman and African American woman to join the Coast Guard
500
This player played 13 seasons in the NHL for the Canadiens, Predators and Devils tallying 115 goals and 352 assists
PK Subban
500
Who was the first Black woman in space?
Mae Jemison; she was an astronaut, engineer, and doctor.
1992
500
Who was the medical researcher who is credited with the invention of the blood bank?
Dr. Charles Drew
500
Who was the first African American Congressman?
Hiram Rhodes Revels; He was elected in Mississippi in 1870
500
This writer was the first in the U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarter’s Program that includes coins featuring prominent women in U.S. history.
What book(s) did she write
Maya Angelo
500
What was the first all-African American tank regiment?
(Their nickname is the name of a popular Marvel Movie)
Bonus- What was the nickname
761st tank battalion
Bonus- The Black Panthers
600
He was an MLB right fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates accumulating 3,000 hits, a .317 batting average and 94.9 WAR, before dying in a plane crash in 1972
Roberto Clemente
600
Who was the first African-American woman to serve as both a U.S. Air Force flight instructor and commercial airline pilot?
What year?
Melissa “M’Lis” Ward
In November 1992, she joined United Airlines in Chicago as a second officer on DC-10s.
600
What are the names of the three mathematicians whose work at NASA in the 1960s, who work was depicted in the 2016 film Hidden Figure
Bonus : What did each of the women do?
Katherine Goble Johnson: manual computer that was responsible for the calculation of launch trajectories and windows, and return windows for programs like the Apollo Lunar Module and the Space Shuttle Program
Dorothy Vaughan: became supervisor at NASA, and led the shift to the use of computers by teaching both the staff and herself, the FORTRAN coding language
Mary Jackson: NASA’s first black female engineer, after petitioning the city of Hampton, Virginia to allow her to take graduate engineering classes held at a segregated high school) that worked on wind tunnel projects to improve aerodynamics of aircrafts
600
What first President officially recognized Black History Month?
Gerard Ford
600
Who would become first American enslaved person, the first person of African descent, and only the third colonial American woman to have her work published?
Phillis Wheatley
600
What was the order of integration of African Americans and white soldiers in the military?
Navy and airforce 1950
The Army 1953
Marines 1960