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100
Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods
100
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman
100

Who is the first African-American elected President of the United States?

Who is Barack Hussein Obama?

100
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks
100
This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali
200
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
200
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
200

Which landmark 1857 Supreme Court case held that the U.S. Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship for people of African descent, whether they were enslaved or free. 

What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?

200

What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

What is Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?

200

She has sold over 118 million records as a solo artist, and another 60 million as a member of a group, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time.

Who is Beyoncé Knowles-Carter?

300
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington
300
Who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
Who is Maya Angelou
300
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
300
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?
Who is Malcolm X
300
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker
400
Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison
400
Which famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?
Who is Muhammad Ali
400
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
400

Which 14 year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman in 1955?

Who is Emmet Till?

400

Which African American woman started as a local television news anchor in Nashville, TN, and went on to build a global media empire that includes television, film, and publishing with an estimated personal net worth of $3.5 billion?

Who is Oprah Winfrey?

500

In what year were the first enslaved Africans brought to the European colony of Jamestown, Virginia?

What is 1619?

500
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
500
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
500

Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?

What is the Birmingham Church Bombing (16th Street Baptist Church)?

500
Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
Who is George Washington Carver