African American First
Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Tiger Woods
Who are the creator of the Black Lives Matter movement?
Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
Brown v. Board of Education
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Rosa Parks
Who was the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” and won the world heavyweight boxing championship in 1964?
Muhammad Ali
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Colin Powell
Who said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere?"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
Dred Scott v. Sandford
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Beyonce Knowles
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Booker T. Washington
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."?
Maya Angelou
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
Plessy v. Ferguson
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?
Malcolm X
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Madame CJ Walker
Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature?
Toni Morrison
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."?
Muhammad Ali
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Shirley Chisholm
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?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Which fourteen-year-old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Emmet Till
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
1619
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Morgan Freeman
Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?
BARACK OBAMA!!!!!
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
The Alabama Church Bombing
Who is known as the richest black woman in the World?
Oprah Winfrey