This trumpet player from New Orleans is also known as "Satchmo."
Who is Louis Armstrong?
100
This professional baseball player broke the color barrier while wearing his #42 jersey?
Who is Jackie Robinson?
100
This local university founded in 1882 was originally named Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute.
What is Virginia State University?
100
This lawyer was the first African American appointed the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
100
A member of this all black Civil War military regiment died in 2005 at the age of 111.
What are the Buffalo Soldiers?
200
This Houston native is the most nominated female in Grammy history and has won 22 grammys. (hint: a famous rapper has put a ring on it).
Who is Beyonce?
200
This "G.O.A.T." was suspended from boxing for 3 years for dodging the draft to Vietnam due to his Muslim faith.
Who is Muhammad Ali/Cassius Clay?
200
This scientist and mathematician helped to design the layout of Washington, D.C. and published an almanac.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
200
These students rode buses to the South in order to desegregate transportation in 1961.
Who were the Freedom Riders?
200
This popular card game was brought to America by slaves. Slaves were allowed to play to teach them counting skills (for counting cotton bales).
What is Bid Whist?
300
This African American performer of "Stormy Weather" was the first to perform with an all white orchestra.
Who is Lena Horne?
300
This African American was the first to win the Master's Tournament (golf).
Who is Tiger Woods?
300
What former slave from Virginia (and graduate of Hampton Normal Agricultural Institute) founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
This 14 year old boy was killed in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. His death began the modern Civil Rights movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
300
This holiday was popular time for slaves to run away because of the end of the crop season.
What is Thanksgiving?
400
This singer was country music's first African American superstar.
Who is Charlie Pride?
400
This African American figure skater was the first black to win a medal in the Winter Olympics (1988).
Who is Debi Thomas?
400
This landmark Supreme Court case desegregated schools and was partially begun by students in Prince Edward County, Virginia.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
400
He was the first African American to be invited to the White House.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
400
Pinckney Pinchback was the first African American governor of what southern state from 1872 to 1873.
What is Louisiana?
500
This opera singer's 1939 Easter performance at the Lincoln Memorial made history as she performed "My Country Tis of Thee" to a crowd of 75,000.
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 was founded in 1837 as the first college for blacks in this state named after William Penn.
What is Pennsylvania?
500
9 months before Rosa Parks, this 15 year old refused to give up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
500
This actress is the first and only African American to be an EGOT winner - Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony. She did not win her Oscar for her role in Jumping Jack Flash.