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The first African American to become president in the United States
She is married to an icon rapper and has 3 kids.
Beyonce
Martin Luther King Jr.
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Rosa Parks
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
Brown v. Board of Education
The first African American woman to be Vice President
Kamala Harris
Halle Berry starred in what movie in 2004
Catwoman
" Don't sit down and wait for opportunities to come. Get up and make them."
Madam CJ Walker
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave that was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
Dred Scott v. Sandford
The first African American to invent the potato chips
George Crum
Who voiced Joe Gardner (the main character in Soul)
Jamie Foxx
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then, when you know better, do better."
Maya Angelou
Who was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
Malcolm X
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Shirley Chisholm
The first African American to invent the gas mask
Garret Morgan
The first African American to win a Grammy.
Ella Fitzgerald
"If there is no struggle there is no progress."
Fedrick Douglass
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
The Alabama Church Bombing
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
Plessy v. Ferguson
In what year were the first Africans brought to America to work as slaves?
1619
The first African American actor to appear on the big screen
Bill Foster
"I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."
Harriet Tubman
This act required slaves to be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
The first African American to serve as governor of a U.S.
Pinchback