Historical year
First Black Men
Who said.....?
First Black Women
Famous black
100
What year did the United States get its first black president?
2008
100
Who served as the first black president of the United States of America?
Barack Obama
100
Who said, "I have a dream."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
100
In 2021 she was selected as United States' first black woman Vice president. Who is she?
Kamala Harris
100
Morgan Freeman
200
What year was slavery abolished?
1865
200
Who was the first African American astronaut in space?
Guion Bluford
200
"I can't Breathe"
George Floyd
200
She refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Ala.
Rosa Parks
200
Harrett Tubman
300
What year was Dr. King assassinated?
1968
300
He became the first black person to win the Nobel peace prize......
Ralph Bunche
300
“Success isn’t about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.”
Michelle Obama
300
Who became the first African American female to become a billionaire in 2004?
Oprah Winfrey
300
Who is "the Lord" referred to in the title "Lord of the Rings"?
Dark Lord Sauron
400
What year did Harriet Tubman escaped to Philadelphia helping, nearly 300 other enslaved people escaped via the Underground Railroad?
1859
400
Baltimore's newspaper, the Afro American was founded by what former slave?
John H. Murphy
400
“Won’t it be wonderful when black history and Native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book? Just U.S. history.”
Maya Angelou
400
The first African American Woman in Space, October 17, 1956. Who is she?
Mae Jemison
400
Who was the male lead in the 1996 summer blockbuster Independence Day?
Will Smith
500
What year did the freedom rides begin from Washington, D.C?
1961
500
Who was the first black Major League Baseball player?
Jackie Robinson
500
“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
Malcolm X
500
Who was the first black American women's bank president?
Meggie Lenna Walker
500
What is the setting of "Goodfellas"?
New York City