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Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
100
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
100
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
100
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
100
Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Who is Beyonce Knowles
200
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington
200
Who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
Who is Maya Angelou
200
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
200
Who was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
Who is Malcolm X
200
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker
300
Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison
300
Which famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?
Who is Muhammad Ali
300
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
300
Who was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
300
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
400
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619
400
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
400
Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?
Who is BARACK OBAMA!!!!!
400
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
400
Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
Who is George Washington Carver
500

She became the first African American woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022.

Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?

500

“I want to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.”

Who is Rosa Parks?

500

Elected in 1983, he became the first Black mayor of Chicago.


Who is Harold Washington?

500

She was a leading activist in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and played a crucial role in organizing the Freedom Rides.


Who is Diane Nash?

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Dubbed the "Queen of Soul," this legendary singer was the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.


Who is Aretha Franklin?