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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
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
100

The march is credited with helping to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

What is the March on Washington

100

This man is the self–proclaimed “greatest 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 Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
200

What was the name of the organization founded in 1909 by Walling, Mary White Ovington, and Henry Moskowitz ?

What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

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Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Who is Beyonce Knowles
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 “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”?

Who is Fredrick Douglas

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

Who famously said  “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” ?

Who is Coretta Scott King?

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Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
400

Who was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations?

Who is Martin Luther King Jr.

400

An abolitionist and women's rights activist, she is best known for her speech on racial inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?" ?

Who is Sojourner Truth?

500
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619
500
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
500

Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?

Who is Barack Obama.

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Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
500

Who founded a weekly newspaper, The Chicago Defender, one of the most important black newspapers in history, in 1905. 

Who is Robert Sengstacke Abbott