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This athlete was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.
Who is Tiger Woods?
This historical figure said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This Illinois politician was elected president of the United States in 2008.
Who is Barack Obama?
Her refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The first black Mayor of Chicago.
Who is Harold Washington?
This statesman, diplomat, and army officer was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?
This civil rights leader said "The time is always right to do what is right".
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This organization was founded in 1909 by members including Ida B. Wells.
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
This fourteen year old black boy was lynched after being accused of whistling at a white woman.
Who is Emmet Till?
This educator and author was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This poet 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?
This Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
A Nation of Islam minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Who is Malcolm X?
This author wrote "The Color Purple", which explores the lives of Queer, African American women in the rural South, and won a Pulitzer Prize.
Who is Alice Walker?
This 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?
This 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?
This Supreme Court case ruled that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Founded in 1969, this organization created social programs, including the Free Breakfast for Children Programs, education programs, and community health clinics, with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality.
What is the Black Panther Party?
This singer was the first African American woman to perform at The Super Bowl.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
The year chattel slavery first began in the American South.
What is 1619?
This actor said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
Who is Morgan Freeman?
This former Congresswoman was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama.
What is the 16th St Baptist Church Bombing?
She became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?