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With a net worth of 3 billion, this entrepreneur has influenced American culture through her Daytime television program, books, magazines, and sponsorship.
Who is Oprah Winfrey.
100
"There is no boy at this age that is cute enough or interesting enough to stop you from getting your education. If I had worried about who like me and who thought I was cute when I was your age, I wouldn't be married to the president of the United States.
Who is Michelle Obama
100
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, she refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was already filled.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
Who was the first black astronaut?
Who is Mae Jemison?
100
The younger sister of actress Phylicia Rashad, this woman is an established African American dancer, choreographer, actress, director, and producer. An alumna of Howard University, she owns a prestigious, self-entitled dance academy in Los Angeles. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Kennedy Center for over 15 years, and has also acted and/or directed in popular television dramas including Grey's Anatomy and How I Met Your Mother.
Who is Debbie Allen?
200
America's first black female millionaire.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
200
"I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired."
Who Fannie Lou Hamer
200
Born into slavery, she escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved families and friends using an underground network of antislavery activists and safe houses.
Who is Harriet Tubman
200
First to win an Olympic medal in 1936.
Who was Jesse Owen?
200
This woman is the first African American to have a solo exhibition in the "Projects" series of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Venice Biennale.
Who is Lorna Simpson?
300
American Jazz artist with a career lasting nearly 30 years.
Who is Billy Holiday?
300
"I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge. Ida B. Wells was a bridge. Madame C.J. Walker was a bridge. Fannie Lou Hamer was a bridge."
Who is Oprah Winfrey
300
Famous for her 1851 speech "Ain't I a Woman?" delivered in Akron, Ohio to exhibit the intersectionality of race and womanhood, she was a strong abolitionist and women's rights advocate.
Who is Sojourner Truth
300
The first African American to win election into public office.
Who is Alexander Lucius Twilight?
300
This female literary artist is best known as the author of the book-turned-film, The Color Purple. Her work generally focuses on struggles of the black community, particularly black women.
Who is Alice Walker?
400
American author, feminist, and social activist, better known by her pen name and author of "Ain't I a Woman" and "Feminism is for Everybody."
Who is Bell Hooks?
400
"Take responsibility for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you. I'm not a victim. I grow from this and I learn.
Who Tyra Banks
400
She was the first African American and black woman's to reach the peak of Mt. Everest.
Who is Sophia Danenbery
400
The first women elected to the Senate
Who is Amelia Boynton?
400
This female poet published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, multiple poetry books, and was involved in a number of plays, movies, and TV shows over the course of 50 years. Her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, was internationally acclaimed. She recited the poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton, which made her the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration.
Who is Maya Angelou?
500
Prominent counterculture figure, radical, free thinker, and involved with the Black Panther Movement.
Who is Angela Davis?
500
"When I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it became less and less important whether I am afraid."
Who is Audre Lorde.
500
In 2009, she became the first African American to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
Who Lisa Perez Jackson?
500
Became the first African American president of an Ivy League College in 2001
Who is Ruth Simmons?
500
This group of African-American quiltmakers originated in southwest Alabama. Beginning as a necessity of making quilts for warmth, it has become a significant art contribution to the black community. An exhibit of 60 quilts made by 42 women (over four generations!) is currently displayed in the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, TX.
Who is Quilts of Gee's Bend?