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Martin Luther King Jr.
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100
Harriet Tubman
What is the name of the women who helped hundreds of other escaped slaves flee to freedom in the North via the Underground Railroad?
100
January
What is the month we celebrate MLK Jr. Day?
100
Jackie Robinson
What is the name of the first African-American to play major league baseball?
100
George Washington Carver
What is the name of the scientist who developed hundreds of products from peanuts, sweet potatoes, pecans, and soybeans, revolutionizing agriculture in the south?
100
1936
What is the year Jesse Owens won 4 gold Medals(in the 100 meter, 200 meter, 400 meter relay and the long jump,) set two Olympic records, and tied another?
200
Rosa Parks
What is the name of the woman who refused to give up her bus seat, prompting a citywide bus boycott?
200
Noble Peace Prize
What is the the prize Martin Luther King Jr. won?
200
Dred Scott
What is the name of the slave who sued for his freedom and lost, in a major Supreme Court case befor the Civil War?
200
Dr. Charles Richard Drew
What is the name of the scientist who developed the idea of the blood bank, saving innumerable human lives?
200
1859
What is the year Harriet Tubman helped John Brown recruit soldiers for his raid on Harpers Ferry?
300
Mae. C. Jemison
What is the name of the first African American woman to go into space?
300
Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott
What is the name of a peaceful Demonstration MLK Jr. participated in?
300
Thurgood Marshall
What is the name of the first African-American who served on the US Supreme Court?
300
The real McCoy?
What is the real name of Elijah McCoy?
300
1905
What is the year Madame Walker started her cosmetics business?
400
Shirley Chisholm
What is the name of the first African American woman to be elected as a U.S. congresswoman?
400
1968
What is the year Martin Luther King was assassinated?
400
Jesse Owens
What is the name of the African-American athlete who won many medals in the1936 Berlin Olympic games?
400
Elijah McCoy
What is the name of the inventor whose high- quality industrial inventions were the basis for the expression "the real McCoy"?
400
1909
What is the year Matthew A. Henson became one of the first people to visit the North Pole?
500
Madame C.J. Walker
What is the name of the African American Woman Known for being an inventor businesswoman and self-made millionare
500
Memphis, Tennessee
What is the name of the city MLK Jr. was assasinated in?
500
Booker T. Washington
What is the name of the ex-slave who founded the tuskegee Institute in Alabama?
500
Straightening Hair
What is the hair care system Madame C.J. Walker invented?
500
1967
What is the year Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the High Court?