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First African American Major League Baseball player who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This group gives scholarships to minority students and financial support to 37 historically black colleges and universities
What is the United Negro College Fund (UNCF)?
This is the name of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning novel
What is the Color Purple?
She was arrested after refusing to move to the back of the bus which triggered a boycott
Who is Rosa Parks?
President Barack Obama was born in this US state
First African American NFL coach to win the Super Bowl
Who is Tony Dungy?
What is Morehouse College?
The first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre
Who is Misty Copeland?
This teen's body was found mutilated after being lynched in Mississippi in 1955 helping spur the civil rights movement
Who is Emmitt Till?
President Obama's Secret Service Code name
What is Renegade?
A former Harlem Globetrotter who played for the PHL Warriors where he scored 100 points in a single basketball game
Who is Wilt Chamberlain?
The US Supreme Court's 1896 decision established a "separate but equal" doctrine in public education
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
He performed in theatre, television and in movies, where he won Oscars for both Best Supporting and Best Actor
Who is Denzel Washington?
Civil Rights Movement began in what year?
What is 1955?
The political office President Obama held before becoming president
What is US senator?
This tennis player has won the second most singles titles in a women's Grand Slam tournament
Who is Serena Williams?
Established in 1837 in Philadelphia, PA as a teacher training college, The Institute for Colored Youth became the first college/university for African Americans
What is Cheyney Univerisity?
In 1956 her autobiography Lady Sings the Blues was published
The first African American to be put on a US postage stamp
Who is Booker T Washington?
While in school, President Obama held the highest student position as the first president of
What is the Harvard Review?
First African American to win the Heisman Trophy
Who is Ernie Davis?
In 1957 Ernest Green integrated Central HS in Little Rock, Arkansas as part of:
Who is the Little Rock Nine?
He was an American poet, social activist, playwright and novelist who's life and work were enormously influential during the Harlem Renaissance of 1920s
Who is Langston Hughes?
In 1990, this South African president and political activist was released from prison after 27 years
Who is Nelson Mandela?
President Barack Obama is a graduate of these two Ivy League universities
What is Columbia and Harvard University?