Civil Rights Movement
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Inventions & Innovation
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History & Firsts
100

Who was the leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Who is Martin Luter King Jr.

100

Who was the founder of the Tuskegee Institute?

Who is Booker T. Washington

100

Who invented the traffic signal and the gas mask?

Who is Garrett Morgan

100

Who was known as the “Queen of Soul”

Who is Aretha Franklin

100

What year did slavery officially end in the United States?

What is 1865

200

Which Supreme Court case ended school segregation?

What is Brown v. Board of Education

200

Who was the co-founder of the NAACP?

Who is W.E.B. Du Bois

200

Who developed over 300 uses for peanuts?

Who is George Washington Carver

200

Who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball?

Who is Jackie Robinson


200

Who was the first Black president of the United States?

Who is Barack Obama

300

What organization did Martin Luther King Jr. help lead?

What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

300

Who was the first Black president of South Africa?

Who is Nelson Mandela

300

Who invented the automatic elevator doors?

Who is Alexander Miles

300

Who was a famous Harlem Renaissance poet?

Who is Langston Hughes

300

Who was the first Black woman astronaut?

Who is Mae Jemison

400

What act outlawed discrimination in public places in 1964?

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964

400

Who was the first Black woman elected to U.S. Congress?

Who is Shirley Chisholm

400

Who invented the home security system?

Who is Marie Van Brittan Brown

400

Who was the first Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal?

Who is Alice Coachman

400

What historically Black college did Martin Luther King Jr. attend?

What is Morehouse College

500

Who was the first Black Supreme Court Justice?

Who is Thurgood Marshall

500

Who founded the Black Panther Party?

Who are Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale

500

Who invented the electric microphone?

Who is James Edward West

500

Who is a famous jazz trumpeter nicknamed “Satchmo”?

Who is Louis Armstrong

500

Who was the first Black woman Supreme Court Justice?

Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson