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African American Firsts
Quotes
African Americans in Government
Civil Rights Movement
Famous African Americans
100
Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Charlie Sifford
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 Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks
100
He was a surgeon who pioneered methods of storing blood plasma for transfusion and organized the first large-scale blood bank in the U.S.
Who is Charles Drew
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 W.E.B. Dubois? (and others)
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
200
He is an American record producer, actor, conductor, arranger, composer, musician, television producer, film producer, instrumentalist and humanitarian.His career spans six decades in the entertainment industry, a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, and 28 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award.
Who is Quincy Jones?
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
He was a minister, human rights activist, and prominent black nationalist leader. He encouraged blacks to cast off the shackles of racism "by any means necessary," including violence.
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
The name of the civil rights activists who rode buses into the segregated southern United States. They protested fact that the buses and restaurants were still segregated even though the United States Supreme Court ruled these practices to be illegal.
Freedom Riders
400
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
500
In what year were the first Africans brought to what is now America 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!!!!!
500
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
500
Who made agricultural advancements and inventions using peanuts?
Who is George Washington Carver