I was the first Black graduate from Bowdoin College.
Who is John Brown Russwurm?
100
I was the first Black baseball player in the Major League Baseball.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
100
This started in 1926 as a week and then extended to a month because it coincided with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and President Lincoln.
What is Black History Month?
200
I created the web series Awkward Black Girl and will have my own show on HBO.
Who is Issa Rae?
200
I was the first African-American woman elected to the House of Representatives and the first female candidate to run for President of the United States.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
200
It is rumored that a Bowdoin building served as a stop on the Underground Railroad.
What is Russwurm? What is AFAM?
200
She was the first Black woman to travel into space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
200
I was known as the fastest woman of all time and represented the US in the Olympics.
Who is Florence Joyner?
300
I set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time.
Who is Whitney Houston?
300
The this amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
This campus tradition is over 20 years old and is held every February.
What is the Ebony Ball?
300
I was the first female Black air pilot in the world.
Who is Bessie Coleman?
300
I was the first African American female millionaire.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
400
I was the black woman to win an Oscar.
Who Hattie McDaniel?
400
I was the lead organizer of the March on Washington and one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s right hand men. From Marching on Washington, to my work in the Black Power movement, to being imprisoned for being in a relationship with a man and my advocacy for the advancement for LGBTQ people, I was a force to be reckoned with.
Who is Bayard Rustin?
400
These two men were co-founders of the African-American Society.
Who are Virgil Logan '69 and Robert Johnson?
400
I was the first minority to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Who is Ralph Bunche?
400
This colony was the first to abolish slavery.
What is Vermont?
500
I founded the world famous Motown Record Company.
Who is Berry Gordy?
500
This country gained its independence through the only successful slave rebellion in the western hemisphere. It was also the second free nation in the western hemisphere after the United States.
What is Haiti?
500
This organization gave birth to the African-American Society. Their mission was to diversify incoming classes at Bowdoin.
What is the Bowdoin Undergraduate Civil Rights Organization?
500
I am the first African American to be inducted into the Nascar Hall of Fame.
Who is Wendell Scott?
500
Frederick Douglass founded this abolitionist newspaper.