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African Americans in GMI
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Famous African Americans
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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
Covington BCN member who has moved 9 times through their career
Who is Val Mack
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
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
A recently retired Executive Vice President, General Counsel and chief Compliance and Risk Management officer at GMI
Who is Rick Palmer
200
In 1964, this important document banned discrimination in employment and other public places for more than just African Americans.
What is the Civil Rights Act
200
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
The first man ever to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
Who is Usain Bolt
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
First African American female Plant Manager
Who is Aiesha Dempster
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
The first African-American author 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
The first African American Vice President at GMI
Who is Cyrus Johnson
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
This Actress was the first African American to win an Academy Award in 1940
Who is Hattie McDaniel
500
The first African American coach to win the Super Bowl
Who is Tony Dungy
500
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Who is Barack Obama
500
There are currently __ members in the Covington's BCN
What is 12
500
This Oscar-nominated film depicts the events that occurred during the Civil Rights Movement immediately following the Alabama Church Bombing.
Selma
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