Firsts
Quotes
Government, etc.
Civil Rights Movement
Fame
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
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
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

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

200

Who was the first black athlete to play for a major baseball league?


Who is Jackie Robinson?

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

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.


200

Who became the first female African American to win a Career Grand Slam in tennis in 2005?

Who is Serena Williams

300

This runner won the world record for the long jump plus 4 more gold medals at the 1936 Olympic games.

Who is Jesse Owens?

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 Amendment in the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery?


13th

300

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


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

300

Who were the first Black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps (pre Air Force) who flew during World War II?


Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?


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." 

and 

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"

Who is Muhammad Ali

400

Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?


What is Plessy v. Ferguson?


400

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

400

What African American musical form was born from blues, ragtime, and marching band?


What is jazz?

500

Who was the first Black individual to win an Oscar for best actor?

Who is Sidney Poitier?

500
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
500

Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?

Who is Colin Powell?

500

What is the name of the fourteen year old boy who was lynched for whistling at a white woman?

Who is Emmett Till?

500

Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?


Who is Madame CJ Walker