This man broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
100
If a rectangle has a width of 13 and length of 9, this would be the area of the rectangle.
What is 117? (Length x Width = Area)
100
With what country does the United States share a southern border?
What is Mexico?
100
He organized an industrial school, known as Tuskegee Institute, which emphasized industrial training as a means to self-respect and economic independence for Black people.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
100
He organized an industrial school, known as Tuskegee Institute, which emphasized industrial training as a means to self-respect and economic independence for Black people.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
200
He was one of the greatest boxers of all time who earned the World Heavyweight Championship in 1964.
Who is Muhammed Ali?
200
If the radius of the circle is 3.4, this would be the diameter.
What is 6.8?
200
He co-founded the "Rainbow Coalition" and "Operation Push" to improve the economic opportunities of black and poor people of all races.
Who is Jesse Jackson?
200
He co-founded the "Rainbow Coalition" and "Operation Push" to improve the economic opportunities of black and poor people of all races.
Who is Jesse Jackson?
200
He was a prominent leader in the Nation of Islam before he left that organization to found the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Who is Malcolm X?
300
He began his basketball career in 1979 for the LA Lakers and went on to win 5 championships.
Who is Magic Johnson?
300
She became the wealthiest African American in the 20th century.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
300
He was the Secretary of State for George W. Bush from 2001-2004.
Who is Colin Powell?
300
Known as the “Founder of Chicago”, he was the first non-indigenous person to settle in Chicago
Who is Dusable?
300
James Weldon Johnson wrote this song which became known as the black national anthem and the official anthem of the NAACP.
What is "Lift Every Voice and Sing"?
400
He went to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and won four track-and-field gold medals (100-meter dash, long jump, 200-meter and 4x100 meter relay), a feat that was unequaled until Carl Lewis did it in the same events in the 1984 Games in Los Angeles.
Who is Jesse Owens?
400
She became the first black Congresswoman and in 1972, she became the first black woman to contend for the presidential office
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
400
He was the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
400
James Weldon Johnson wrote this song which became known as the black national anthem and the official anthem of the NAACP.
What is "Lift Every Voice and Sing"?
400
The recently departed Maya Angelou was best known for this memoir that became the first non-fiction best seller by an African American.
What is "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
500
These two sisters have had the honor of being ranked number one in tennis and have earned 101 singles titles between them.
Who are Serena and Venus Williams?
500
Based out of Chicago, she was one of the most influential American writers and poets of the 20th century. Her first book was titled "A Street in Bronzeville".
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
500
This landmark Supreme Court case upheld segregation in schools with the doctrine "separate but equal".
What is Plessy vs. Fergueson?
500
This movement which began in New York in 1920 was a rebirth of African American art, history, and music.
What is The Harlem Renaissance?
500
This person created "Negro History Week" in 1926, which later became Black History Month.