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100
She is the first vice president who identifies as Black and South Asian.
Kamala Harris
100
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, featuring the efforts of Rosa Parks and other civil rights activists, took place in which US state?
Alabama
100
Mansa Musa, a medieval king in Mali, was one of the richest people in history. He gave so much of this yellow, precious metal to people that he caused economic inflation.
Gold
100
In 1958, Ella Fitzgerald became the first African American to win this highest award in music in the USA.
A Grammy
100
George Washington Carver was an agriculturalist who often specialized in this crop. Hint, one of its products pairs well with jelly.
Peanuts
200
He gave the "I Have a Dream Speech" in 1963.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
200
The Million Man March, meant to uplift African Americans and counter stereotypes made against Black people, took place in which US city?
Washington, DC.
200
Nelson Mandela became the first Black president of which African country following the Apartheid?
South Africa
200
This "How to Get Away With Murder" actress became the first African American to win an Emmy, Oscar, and Tony for acting.
Viola Davis
200
Present Barack Obama was born in this US state.
Hawaii
300
The Tuskegee Airmen were a largely African American military unit who served during which US War?
World War II
300
Which Amendment to the Constitution outlawed slavery?
13th
300
The Atlantic Slave trade in which Europeans supplied manufactured goods like guns and rum to Africa, slaves were taken from West Africa to the Americas, and raw materials went to Europe was based on which geometric shape?
Triangle
300
He was the first African American man to play Major League Baseball.
Jackie Robinson
300
This organization and movement, originating in 2013, focuses on bringing awareness and change related to police brutality against African Americans, discrimination, and racism as a whole related to Black people.
Black Lives Matter
400
He was the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Thurgood Marshall
400
The _____________ ______________ Act of 1964 fought against discrimination in the workplace, schools, and voting.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
400
Following a successful slave revolt which ended in 1804, this country became the first independent, predominantly Black country in the Western Hemisphere.
Haiti
400
This 1977 TV show documented the story of a slave named Kunta Kinte (and his descendants) after he was forced into slavery and taken to America. In 2016, the History Channel remade the series.
Roots
400
This Amendment to the US Constitution gave Black men the right to vote (note that Black women did not receive this right for several decades).
15th
500
Harriet Tubman went by which nickname related to a biblical figure?
Moses
500
Name two ways state and local governments and various citizens tried to disenfranchise African Americans (i.e. keep them from voting) after the Civil War through the 1960s.
Grandfather Clause, Poll Tax, Literacy Test, terrorism via groups like the KKK, etc.
500
In the 1800s, the American Colonization Society and the US government encouraged freed former slaves to move to this current country in West Africa?
Liberia
500
In 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Oscar for her role in this film about the Old South which has become controversial in recent years. Note that the awards ceremony took place in a segregated hotel in which McDaniel was made to feel unwelcome.
Gone with the Wind
500
Howard University,Hampton University, Spelman University, and NC A&T are all examples of HBCUs. What does HBCU stand for?
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
