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100

Helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man

Rosa Parks

100

Rapped the song “Juicy”

The Notorious B.I.G./Biggie

100

First Lady who wrote “Becoming”

Michelle Obama

100

The name of the basketball player who is #23 on the Lakers

Lebron James
100

The first Black justice confirmed to the Supreme Court on August 30, 1967

Thurgood Marshall

200

Was the first Black person to appear on a U.S. postage stamp

Booker T. Washington

200

Music genre that Black folks were most prominent in

Jazz music

200

Name one of the most popular topics within Black literature

(Multiple answers) slave narratives, calls for independence, protests against colonization, African pride

200

Black woman has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles in Tennis

Serena Williams

200

The period in the 1920s that was as an awakening of Black culture

Harlem Renaissance 

300

The first Black student to integrate an elementary school in the South

Rudy Bridges

300

Music Award Show established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Network

BET Awards

300

Country of birth of author Chinua Achebe

Nigeria

300

The first Black baseball player, who debuted under the Brooklyn Dodgers

Jackie Robinson

300

The historic 1960s Woolworth store sit-in occur

Greensboro, North Carolina

400

The first Black female Representative in Congress

Shirley Chisholm

400

The Black artist with the most Grammys

Michael Jackson

400

Created the term “double consciousness” in the “Souls of Black Folk”



W.E.B. Du Bois

400

The first Black athlete to win four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin

Jesse Owens

400

In 1993, became the first Black woman to receive the honor of the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature

Toni Morrison

500

An escaped slave who became an activist, author, and public speaker

Frederick Douglass

500

Music genre that roots back to the days of slavery

Gospel music

500

Black literature tends to be written with dialects and what three colonial languages

French, Portuguese, and English

500

Black woman was named as the “Most Dominant Athlete” of 2018 by ESPN the magazine

Simone Biles

500

The year the was NAACP founded

1909