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100

What term refers to colleges and universities founded to educate Black students?

HBCUs

100

Who was the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court?

Thurgood Marshall

100

Who invented the modern traffic signal?

Garrett Morgan

100

Who is known as the “Queen of Jazz”?

 Ella Fitzgerald

100

Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States?

The 13th Amendment

200

Which Supreme Court case ended school segregation?

Brown v. Board of Education

200

Who was the first African American woman elected to Congress?

Shirley Chisholm

200

Which scientist helped develop modern blood banks?

Dr. Charles Drew

200

What newspaper was founded by Frederick Douglass?

The North Star

200

Who was the first African American woman to travel to space?

Mae Jemison

300

What is the name of the unethical U.S. study that denied treatment to Black men with syphilis for decades?

Tuskegee Syphilis Study?

300

Who was the first African American woman physician in the United States?

Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler

300

Who was the NASA mathematician and inventor who helped calculate flight paths for early space missions?

Katherine Johnson

300

Who is known as the “Godfather of Soul”?

James Brown

300

This organization works to increase the number of Black physicians and improve health in Black communities

Student National Medical Association

400

Who gave the “I Have a Dream” speech?

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

400

What surgeon performed the first successful open-heart surgery?

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

400

Which inventor created many useful products from peanuts and sweet potatoes?

George Washington Carver

400

What music genre did Black artists pioneer in New Orleans?

Jazz

400

Who was the first African American woman billionaire?

Oprah Winfrey

500

Who was the first Black woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice?

Ketanji Brown Jackson

500

Who was the civil rights leader and longtime president of the NAACP?

W.E.B. Du Bois

500

Who invented the carbon filament that improved the electric light bulb?

Lewis Latimer

500

Who was the first African American woman to win an Academy Award?

Hattie McDaniel

500

This ophthalmologist and academic leader became the first Black president of the University of California system.

Dr. Michael Drake