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100
Martin Luther King delivered this speech in Washington, D.C.
What is the "I Have a Dream" speech?
100
This person's actions inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
This man was the first black Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
100
How many students integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas?
What is nine?
100
This woman was the first African American woman to make the Best-Seller list with her book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".
Who is Maya Angelou?
200
This church became the first national Black church in the United States.
What is the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church?
200
This abolitionists newspaper "The North Star" was a vital part of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Fredrick Douglas?
200
This person was the first African American to win a major Golf Championship title.
Who is Tiger Woods?
200
This landmark case caused the Supreme Court to declare that segregated schools were not constitutional.
What is Brown vs Board of Education?
200
This group of men became the first African-American pilots in the United States of America.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
300
This man is the author of "Roots" and "Queen".
Who is Alex Haley?
300
Name the group of people that traveled interstate to protest bus segregation.
What are the Freedom Riders?
300
This woman was the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award.
Who is Dorothy Dandridge?
300
This school became the first high school in the United States to desegregate.
What is Oak Ridge High School?
300
This man is the most Grammy-nominated artist in history with 76 nominations.
Who is Quincy Jones?
400
This woman became the first black millionaire after she invented the straightening comb.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
400
Name the young man that was brutally murdered in Money, Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a Caucasian woman in 1955.
Who is Emmett Till?
400
This man was the first African American U.S. presidential candidate.
Who is Rev. Clennon King?
400
This man was the first African American member of the New York City Opera.
Who is Todd Duncan?
400
This man became the first person to successfully separate conjoined twins in the United States.
Who is Dr. Ben Carson?
500
This man became the first African American to be featured on a U.S. Postal Stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
500
Name the church where four little girls were murdered in Birmingham, Alabama.
What is Sixteenth Street Baptist Church?
500
This man was the first African American to vote under the 15th Amendment.
Who is Thomas Mundy Peterson?
500
This man became the first African-American to play in the NFL.
Who is Fritz Pollard?
500
This man became the first modern era senator in the United States of America.
Who is Edward William Brooke, lll?