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At age 15 this late singer sang background on Chaka Kahn’s 1978 hit “I’m Every Woman,” and this late singer went on to remake the song into an even bigger hit in 1992.
Who is Whitney Houston?
100
This former Dean of the Law School was known as “The Man Who Killed Jim Crow.”
Who is Charles Hamilton Houston?
100
This was a free African American astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, almanac author and farmer was born November 9, 1731 and 1791, was a technical assistant in the calculating and first-ever surveying of the Federal District, which is now Washington, D.C.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
100
While not the first to break the color barrier he was the most famous to do so with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Who is Jacke Robinson?
100
This African-American educator and civil rights leader is best known for starting a school for African American students in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
200
This singer whose middle name is Joseph was born August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana.
Who is Michael Jackson?
200
This notable HUSL alumnus was born on July 2, 1908 and was originally rejected from the University of Maryland Law School due to his race before attending HUSL.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
200
This African American physician, surgeon, and medical researcher was the first black surgeon selected to serve as an examiner on the American Board of Surgery.
Who is Dr. Charles Drew?
200
This sports legend, middle name Jeffery was born February 17, 1963 is currently majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats.
Who is Michael Jordan?
200
This escaped slave was a leader of the abolitionist movement stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves did not have the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. In 1872, became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
300
This singer birth named “Jamesetta Hawkins” had her first taste of fame with the song “Roll With Me Henry.”
Who is Etta James?
300
This person was the first female to graduate from HUSL, on February 27, 1872 and the first female black lawyer.
Who is Charlotte E. Ray?
300
This African-American American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist, in 1932 became part of a group of black people who went to the Soviet Union to make a film depicting the plight of African Americans in the United States.
Who is Langston Hughes?
300
This African-American sportsman helped legitimize the American Basketball Association (ABA) as was the best known player in the ABA when the ABA-NBA merger joined it with the National Basketball Association (NBA) after the 1976 season.
Who is Julius Erving?
300
This Civil Rights activist and leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, pacifism and non-violence, and gay rights helped to initiate a 1947 Freedom Ride to challenge with civil disobedience racial segregation on interstate busing. He helped Martin Luther King, Jr.'s to organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and was the chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Who is Bayard Rustin?
400
This activist as awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994, and founded the annual Black Family Reunion.
Who is Dorothy Height?
400
This HUSL alumnus was denied admission to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s law school due to her race before graduating as the only female in her Howard class and was denied the Julius Rosenwald Fellowship for graduate work at Harvard University due to her gender.
Who is Reverend Dr. Anna Pauline (Pauli) Murray?
400
This African-American sculptor made her career in Italy and her signature masterpiece is The Death of Cleopatra, carved in 1876.
Who is Edmonia Lewis?
400
This Track & Field athlete won six medals in the Summer Olympics, including three gold medals and “Sports Illustrated for Woman” voted her the top female athlete of the 20th century.
Who is Jackie Joyner-Kersee?
400
She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives. Upon her death she was survived by her partner Nancy Earl.
Who is Barbara Jordan?
500
This Scholar was the first tenured African-American professor of Law at Harvard University, and largely credited as the originator of Critical Race Theory.
Who is Derrick Bell?
500
This Civil War Era activist born October 9, 1823 in Wilmington, Delaware graduated from HUSL in 1883 was the first black woman to cast a vote in a national election and only the second black woman in the United States to earn a law degree.
Who is Mary Ann Shadd?
500
This African-American investor had only a fifth-grade education and began his career as a sewing-machine mechanic and 1907 he had a patent for an improved sewing machine and began his own sewing machine business.
Who is Garrett Augustus Morgan?
500
This was America’s first professional all black basketball team, and faced the Original Celtics in its first years, the dominant white team of the time, and claim the title of world champions: in their fifth encounter, they did so for the first time, on December 20, 1925.
What is Harlem Rens, New York Renaissance, or Renaissance Big Five?
500
This group of young activists integrated a public facility under the protection of the national guard.
Who is Little Rock Nine?