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The Queen of all Queens that sings "Crazy in Love"

Who is Beyonce?

100

The first black MVP in the MLB in 1949, and the first African American Hall of Famer

Who is Jackie Robinson?

100

The first Black President in the United States

Who is President Barack Obama? 

100

In 1964 an Act is signed, prohibiting discrimination of all kinds.

What is the Civil Rights Act?

100

Freed slaves in the South in 1863, it wasn't enforced in many places until after the end of the Civil War two years later

What is the Emancipation Proclamation? 

200

This artist music video for "Billie Jean" was the first music video by a Black artist to appear on MTV

Who is Michael Jackson?
200

She became the first African American woman to win a Grand Slam singles title in the Open Era

Who is Serena Williams?

200

Led a number of peaceful protests as well as the famous March on Washington in 1963

Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?

200

In 1954 a case strikes down segregation as unconstitutional

What was Brown v. Board of Education?

200

The first Black Female pilot

Who was Bessie Coleman?

300

This artist became the first artist ever to have an album at number one on the billboard 200 while serving a prison sentence.

Who is Tupac Shakur?

300

The first man to win the heavyweight title three times

Who is Muhammad Ali?

300

She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad

Who was Harriet Tubman?

300

This Amendment was ratified in 1870 giving African Americans the right to vote

What is the 15th Amendment?

300

The first African American actress to win Oscar

Who was Hattie McDaniel?

400

The Queen of Soul in the mid 1960s

Who is Aretha Franklin? 

400

First Black Gymnast to Win Individual All-Around Champion

Who is Gabby Douglas?

400

A civil rights activist who refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama

Who was Rosa Parks?

400

This group was founded in 1909

What is the NAACP?

400

One of the most prominent black poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Most known for this poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" 

Who was Langston Hughes?

500

The first Black artist to win a Grammy

Who is Ella Fitzgerald?

500

He was the first American track and field athlete to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games

Who was Jesse Owens?

500

The first African American female astronaut. In 1992, she flew into space aboard the Endeavour, becoming the first African American woman in space

Who is Mae C. Jemison?

500

In 1967 he became the first African American to be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice.

Who was Thurgood Marshall?

500

Became the first African American Female Billionaire

Who is Oprah Winfrey?