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100
Who was the first African American president of the USA?
Barack Obama
100
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Harriet Tubman
100
What name was given to the period of cultural rebirth that took place in Harlem, New York City?
Harlem Renaissance
100
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
Brown vs. Board
100
Do the Electric Slide
im serious *cue music*
200
Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Tiger Woods
200
"We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."
MLK Jr.
200
What Michael Jackson album won eight Grammy Awards in 1983?
Thriller
200
What is the name given to the sea journey slaves made from West Africa to the Americas called?
The Middle Passage
200
Your mom is not this?
One of your little friends
300
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Booker T. Washington
300
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."?
Muhammad Ali
300
What play was written by Lorraine Hansberry?
Raisin in the Sun
300
In 1960, students in what Southern city launched the sit-in movement, which involved sitting at counters in restaurants where black patrons were not served?
Greensboro, NC
300
They really your childhood bestfriend but when someone ask you what they are you say?
"That's my cousin"
400
Who was the first African American woman millionaire?
Madam C.J. Walker
400
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Morgan Freeman
400
What year was Uncle Tom's Cabin published in?
1852
400
He started the "Back to Africa Movement",and was later deported back to his homeland in Jamaica
Marcus Garvey
500
Who was the first black Miss America?
Vanessa Williams
500
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others... One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warrings ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W.E.B. DuBois
500
Who was the first African American woman to win an Academy Award.
Hattie McDaniel
500
What was Black History Month originally called?
Negro History Week
500
What does being "woke" or "stay woke" mean?
To stay socially and politically conscious of the apparatus of white supremacy.