Black History Month was created in 1926 and began as this.
What is Negro History Week?
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He was the first African American man to serve as senator for the state of Mississippi from February 1870 to March 1871.
Who was Hiram Rhodes Revels?
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America's first African American self-made woman to become a millionaire.
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
100
His speech at the 1963 march on Washington was attended by over a quarter million people.
What is Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech?
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Cheyney University in Pennsylvania was established in 1837, at which African Americans and Jews were united in their common goal of attaining equality in the US.
What is the first of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities?
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Black History Month became a month-long celebration in this year.
What is 1976?
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She is the first African American woman elected to the House of Representatives, elected in 1968 and represented the State of New York.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
200
She became the first African American woman to go into space aboard the space shuttle Endeavor in 1992.
Who is Dr. Mae Jemison?
200
He became the first African American man to hold the World Heavyweight Champion boxing title in 1908.
Who is Jack Johnson?
200
The NAACP was founded in this city in 1908 by a group of African American leaders focused on addressing racial violence.
Where is Springfield Illinois?
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Black History Month was created by this noted African American historian, scholar, educator and publisher.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
300
He was the first African American ever elected to the United States Senate.
Who is Hiram Rhodes Revels?
300
She escorted over 300 slaves to freedom using the antislavery safe houses known as the Underground Railroad over the course of her lifetime.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
300
He was the first black tennis player selected to the United States Davis Cup team, and the only black man to have won the singles title at Wimbledon, the Australian Open and the US Open.
Who is Arthur Ashe?
300
Dr. King's speech at the 1963 March on Washington contributed to the passage of this.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
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The month of February was selected for Black History Month celebrations starting in 1976, and was chosen to coincide with their birthdays.
Who are Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln?
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He was elected to the post of Town Clerk for Brownhelm, Ohio in 1855, and became one of the first African Americans ever elected to public office in American.
Who is John Mercer Langston?
400
She is the first African American woman to become a pilot, and was awarded an international pilot's license by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale in June 1921.
Who is Bessie Coleman?
400
He was the first black man to become a lawyer in Ohio when he passed the Bar in 1854.
Who is John Mercer Langston?
400
This black entrepreneur is the founder of a much-loved "famous" chocolate based treat.
Who is Wally Amos Jr.?
500
The civil rights organization that was formed to address racial violence in the early 20th century.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
500
He was the first African American ever appointed to the United States Supreme Court, and served from 1967 to 1991.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
500
She became the first African American performer to win an Academy Award for her portrayal of a loyal slave governess in Gone With the Wind.
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
500
He was the first black man to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel.
Who is Ralph Bunche?
500
These were outlawed in 1964 and the decision was not overturned until 1967, when a black woman named Mildred Jeter married Richard Loving, a white man in the District of Columbia.