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Best known for role in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"
Who is Sidney Poitier?
100
Famous for her rendition of ‘Respect’
Who is Aretha Franklin?
100
Wrote "Just As I Am"
Who is Cicely Tyson?
100
Jailed & fined for not paying full tax on a floor-seat theatre ticket
Who is Viola Desmond?
100
Hosted Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
Who is Neil deGrasse Tyson?
100
Canadian former Major League Baseball pitcher and coach who played for the Chicago Cubs for most of his career
Who is Ferguson Arthur Jenkens, otherwise known as "Fergie"?
200
First African American to win an Oscar
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
200
Considered one of the pioneers of Reggae
Who is Bob Marley?
200
Wrote "The Color Purple"
Who is Alice Walker?
200
First Black member of parliament in Canadian history
Who is Lincoln MacCauley Alexander?
200
Inventor of the oven
Who is William Peyton Hubbard?
200
Regarded as the greatest Canadian sprinter of all time
Who is Donovan Bailey?
300
Only African American woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress
Who is Halle Berry?
300
1st Black Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner in opera
Who is Jessye Norman?
300
Wrote "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
Who is Maya Angelou?
300
Admired as one of the best cowboys in the West
Who is John Ware?
300
First Canadian born Black doctor
Who is Anderson Ruffin Abbott?
300
Only Black man to win 3 grand slam singles title at the Wimbledon US and Australian open
Who is Arthur Robert Ashe Jr.?
400
Won a Golden Globe for Best Actor for his role as "The Hurricane"
Who is Denzel Washington?
400
The ‘First Lady of Song’
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
400
Wrote "The Book of Negroes"
Who is Lawrence Hill?
400
Canada's first Black judge
Who is His Excellency Mr. Maurice Charles?
400
He's the real _____
Who is Elijah McCoy?
400
First Black Hockey Player in the National Hockey League
Who is Willie O'Ree?
500
Played God in "Bruce Almighty"
Who is Morgan Freeman?
500
Cellist at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding
Who is Sheku Kanneh-Mason?
500
Wrote the "Black National Anthem"
Who are the Johnson brothers?
500
First Black female newspaper publisher in Canada
Who is Mary Ann Shadd Cary?
500
Calculated the trajectory for the space flight of the first American in space
Who is Katherine Johnson?
500
Pulled out of Tokyo 2020 Olympics because swimming caps made for Afro hair were banned
Who is Alice Dearing?