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This notable actress and singer became the first black Miss America in 1983.
Who is Vanessa Williams?
100
Notorious as the Moses of her people, this abolitionist led over 300 slaves in a ten-year span from the South to freedom, making a total of 19 trips. She was also a nurse and a spy during the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
This native New Yorker and Vietnam veteran served as the first black Secretary of State between 2001 and 2004.
Who is Colin Powell?
100
In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued this document declaring that "that all persons held as slaves" within the Confederate states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
This is the actual name of the civil rights organization most commonly referred to as NAACP.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
200
This actress, comedian and talk show co-host is one of very few entertainers who have won an Emmy, Oscar, Grammy, and Tony Award.
Who is Whoopi Goldberg?
200
She is most noted for being the spark that began the Montgomery Bus Boycott through her refusal to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger.
Who is Rosa Parks?
200
This athlete was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball and signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. He was also named Rookie of the Year in 1947, National League MVP in 1949, and a World Series champ in 1955.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
200
On this day inn 1965 a peaceful protest across the Pettus Bridge, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., turned violent when state troopers attacked marchers. It was reenacted in the hit movie Selma.
What is Bloody Sunday?
200
The NAACP was founded during this year.
What is 1909?
300
This Detroit-based record label dominated the Billboard Charts in the 1960s with artists including Marvin Gaye, the Supremes and The Jackson 5.
What is Motown Records?
300
He embraced the Nation of Islam teachings of black empowerment and self-sufficiency at an early age and was known for his famous slogan “By any means necessary”.
Who is Malcolm X?
300
He became the first African American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1963 for his role in Lilies of the Field.
Who is Sidney Poitier?
300
In this year, President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.
What is 1964?
300
This action, performed most commonly by mobs against black men, was practiced in the South from the 18th century until the 1960s. The NAACP was founded to end this specific form of injustice.
What is lynching?
400
This high-profile attorney represented celebrities such as Sean Combs, Michael Jackson, Tupac Shakur, and most notably O.J. Simpson.
Who is Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr.?
400
This civil rights activist and Baptist minister ran for presidency in the 1984 presidential election.
Who is Jesse Jackson?
400
This politician served as the first African American woman elected to Congress as well as the first African American woman to run for president.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
400
In 1923, Garrett Morgan invented this device that is still used to direct motorists and pedestrians today.
What is the traffic light?
400
This sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor is one of the founders of the NAACP. One of his most well known publications is The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches (1903).
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
500
This beloved jazz singer, known as the "First Lady of Song", became the first black woman to win a Grammy Award in 1958.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
500
A woman of many talents, who not only served as a member of President Roosevelt’s ”Black Cabinet”, but also combined education with politics, founded her own school, and led voter registration drives when the voting rights of blacks were limited.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
500
This author, known for writing novels such as the "The Bluest Eye", was the first African American to win a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
Who is Toni Morrison?
500
In 1921, this event destroyed what was known as "Black Wall Street." Historians estimate that this event left over 10,000 African Americans homeless and anywhere between 55 and 300 African Americans deceased.
What is the Tulsa Race Riot.
500
Created by W.E.B. DuBoise, this is the NAACP’s quarterly magazine.
What is The Crisis?