This trumpet player from New Orleans, LA is also known as "Satchmo".
Who is Louis Armstrong?
100
This professional baseball player broke the color barrier in 1947 while wearing his famous #42 jersey.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
100
This local university founded in 1882 was originally called Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute.
What is Virginia State University?
100
This lawyer was the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
100
The last surviving member of this Civil War all black regiment did not die until 2005 at the age of 111.
Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?
200
This artist from Houston, TX is the most nominated female artist in Grammy history and has won 22 Grammy awards. (hint:a famous rapper put a ring on it)
Who is Beyonce?
200
This "G.O.A.T." boxer missed 3 years of boxing because he refused to be drafted to fight in Vietnam due to his Muslim faith.
Who is Muhammad Ali/Cassius Clay?
200
This mathematician and scientist helped to design Washington, D.C. and published a famous almanac.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
200
The group of students who rode through the South in 1961 to integrate transportation (were often attacked by white mobs).
Who are the Freedom Riders?
200
Slaves brought this card game with them from Africa and played on the Middle Passage. Slave owners allowed them to play so they could learn how to count cotton bales.
What is Bid Whist?
300
She was the first African American to sing with an all white orchestra.
Who is Lena Horne?
300
He was the first African American to win the Master's Tournament (golf).
Who is Tiger Woods?
300
This former slave from Virginia (and graduate of Hampton Normal Agricultural Institute) founded the Alabama teachers' college Tuskegee Institute in 1881.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
The name of the 14 year old boy killed in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman. His death began the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
300
This holiday is when many slaves would try to escape due to the end of the crop season.
What is Thanksgiving?
400
This person was the first African American to receive an award as country music's entertainer of the year.
Who is Charlie Pride?
400
In 1988, this figure skater became the first African American to earn a medal at the Winter Olympics.
Who is Debi Thomas?
400
One of the cases in this landmark Supreme Court case that desegregated schools is from Prince Edward County, Virginia.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
400
Name the first African American to be invited to the White House.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
400
Pinckney Pinchback was the son of a former slave and served as the first African American governor in this southern state from 1872 to 1873.
What is Louisiana?
500
This opera singer's 1939 Easter Sunday concert at the Lincoln Memorial broke racial barriers and was seen as an important moment in the struggle for civil rights?
Who is Marian Anderson?
500
This track star won 4 gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Germany (causing Adolf Hitler to walk out of the games).
Who is Jesse Owens?
500
The Institute for Colored Youth is the first college for blacks. It was founded in 1837 in this northern state that is named after William Penn.
What is Pennsylvania?
500
This 15 year old refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama 9 months before Rosa Parks.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
500
She is the first and only African American to have received the distinction of being an EGOT winner (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony). She did not get her Oscar for her role in Jumping Jack Flash.