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What makes up 13.5 percent of the U.S population?
African Americans
100
Who was the first Black mayor of a major American city?
Carl Stokes (Cleveland)
100
Who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger and was arrested?
Rosa Parks
100
Who was the first African American to winn Wimbledon?
Arthur Ashe
200
What is the number of Black physcian and surgeons in the U.S.?
Approximately 49,730
200
Who was the first Black to hold a Cabinet position at the national level?
Dr. Robert Clifton Weaver
200
Who was a great civil-rights leader and leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott who advocated peace?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
200
Who is the first Black person to win the U.S. Singles Figure-Skating Championship?
Debbie Thomas
300
What is Rosa Parks Birthday?
February 4th 1913
300
Who was the first Black woman U.S. sentor serving from 1992 - 1998?
Carol Moseley Braun
300
Who was the first Black U.S. Supremen Court judge and a civil-rights lawyer who helped to win the Brownh vs. Board of Education case?
Thurgood Marshall
300
Who was the first Black person to win an Academy Award?
Hattie McDaniel
400
Who started Black History Month?
Carter G. Woodson
400
Who was the first Black U. S. Secretary of State?
General Colin Powell
400
What were the first Blacks to attend an all-white high school in Little Rock, AR?
The Little Rock Nine
400
Who was the first black male Grammy award winner?
Count Basie in 1958 for Best Jazz Performance
500
Who was one of the planners of what is now Washington, D. C
Benjamin Banneker
500
Who was the first Black person to be nominated as a major party nominee for president?
Senator Barack Obama - President Obama Now
500
What year to the U.S. Postal Service issue a stamp of Sojourner Truth?
1996
500
Hank Aaron was know for what sport?
Baseball