His Gold Medal win in the 2006 Winter Olympics made him the first African-American to win an individual medal in the history of the Winter Games.
Who is Shani Davis?
100
I won the NBA MVP Award five times as a member of the Chicago Bulls
Who is Michael Jordan?
100
She was the first African-American woman in space.
Who is Mae C. Jamison?
100
This historical event propelled Martin Luther King, Jr. to national prominence as a leader of the civil rights movement.
What is the boycott in 1955-56 by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, against the segregated city bus lines?
100
was the first person to win four gold medals at one Olympic competition
Who is Jesse Owens
200
He invented the steam engine lubricator and the expression “the real McCoy,” meaning the real, authentic, or high-quality thing.
Who was Elijah McCoy?
200
He earned multiple Academy Awards in the “Best Sound” category in 1990 for his work in the film “Glory” and the same award in 1991 for his work on the film, “Dances with Wolves”.
Who is Russell Williams, II?
200
He holds 3 of the 9 IBM patents for the personal computer.
Who is Mark Dean?
200
As a 15 year-old high school student at Booker T. Washington High School in Montgomery, Alabama, I refused to give up my bus seat to a white person 9 months before Rosa Parks
Who is Claudette Colvin.
200
the first African American woman to win Songwriter of the Year and has the record for a song being #1 on Billboard Hot 100 for the longest time.
Who is Beyonce Knowles (Carter)
300
The first African American to sing on stage at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1955.
Who was Marian Anderson?
300
He is the outspoken black athlete who made the following statement:
“It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”
Who is Muhammad Ali?
300
She patented a method to use a laser to remove cataracts from the eye.
Who is Dr. Patricia Bath?
300
She won 3 Gold Medals for Track in the 1960 Olympics, but she’s most proud of successfully fighting for the desegregation of her town’s homecoming parade in the same year.
Who is Wilma Rudolph?
300
won eight Grammy awards in 1984, holds the record for most Top Ten Singles from an album (Thriller), and for most #1 Singles from an album (Bad).
Who is Michael Jackson
400
The first states to legalize and abolish slavery, respectively.
What are Massachusetts and Pennsylvania?
400
Also known as Hitsville, USA, Berry Gordy, Jr founded this company in Detroit in 1959.
What is Motown?
400
The last cases of smallpox on Earth occurred in 1978, due in large part to the efforts of this his leadership with the Smallpox Eradication Program.
Who is Dr. Donald Hopkins
400
The passage of this Act official brought an end to “Jim Crow” laws, which made discrimination against blacks legal.
What is the Fair Housing Act of 1968?
400
was the first to be honored on a USPS stamp.
Who is Booker T Washington
500
The first African-American woman to head an Ivy League institution.
Who is Dr. Ruth Simmons, President, Brown University (2001)
500
He was the writer-director-actor of the movie “Do the Right Thing”.
Who is Spike Lee?
500
Time Magazine, in 2005, described her as “perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science”, and the National Science Board describes her as “a national treasure”.
Who is Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson (President, Rensselaer Univ)
500
Founded by civil rights leader Jesse Jackson in 1971, this organization was formerly known as “Operation Breadbasket”.
Operation P.U.S.H. (People United to Serve Humanity)