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In 1967, he became the first Black justice on the US Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
100
She is the first African American female who hosted a nationally televised program.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
100
Barack Obama was the first Black US President when he was elected in 2008 as this number President?
What is the 44th President?
100
In this year Martin Luther King was assasinated.
What is 1968?
100
In 1963, he gave the most revered speech in American history, which was later titled named after the portion of the speech in which he went off script and started preaching.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
200
In 1967, this person became the first Black person popularly elected to the US Senate.
Who is Edward Brooke?
200
After being a dancing prodigy, she became the first African American woman principal dancer for the American Ballet Theater.
Who is Misty Copeland?
200
In 1968 he became the first Black male to win the US Open in tennis.
Who is Arthur Ashe?
200
In 1965 this black nationalist leader was assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam.
Who is Malcolm X?
200
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to relinquish her bus seat in the colored section to a white person in this small city.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
300
In 1983, he flew onboard Challenger to become the first Black person into space. He went on to serve on 4 missions.
Who is Guy Bluford?
300
In the early 1900s, she became the first Black millionaire and believed to be the first female self-made millionaire by developing and marketing hair and beauty products for Black women.
Who is Sarah Breedlove (Madam CJ Walker)
300
After graduating from Amherst College and Harvard Law School with honors, he became the chief architect of the Civil Right Movement. He started the dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the courts and trained Thurgood Marshall.
Who is Charles Hamilton Houston?
300
After police officers were acquitted from beating Black motorist Rodney King, which was caught on video, riots broke out in this section of Los Angeles.
What is South Central?
300
In 1961, Black and White civil rights activist joined together to challenge interstate travel in Southern states by sitting in integrated buses and challenging white only facilities at rest stops along interstate highways.
What are the Freedom Rides?
400
In 1885, Sarah Goode became the first Black woman to be issued a patent for this product.
What is a bed that folds up into a cabinet.
400
In 1957, she became the first Black tennis player to win a Grand Slam title by winning the French Open. The following year she won Wimbledon and the US Nationals, where she repeated as champion the following year.
Who is Althea Gibson?
400
This co-founder of the NAACP was a Pan-Africanist. He opposed Booker T. Washington's Atlanta compromise and advocated for full civil rights for Blacks. He also actively opposed European Colonization in Africa.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
400
After losing the popular vote, but winning the contentious electoral college vote, this Northerner secured the Presidency by agreeing to remove troops from the South and bringing an end to Reconstruction and start of Jim Crow.
Who is President Rutherford Hayes?
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In 1963 this Black civil rights activist working to desegregate the Univ. of Mississippi was murdered in front of his home. He was shot in the back by a member of the White Citizens's Council. His murder was not convicted until 1994 despite two prior attempts in the 1964.
Who is Medgar Evers?
500
The first African American to win a Nobel Prize for literature.
Who is Toni Morrison.
500
After escaping slavery in 1826, she became a Methodist and received a calling from God to preach about the abolition of slavery. She became an activist abolitionist and gave a famous speech entitled "Ain't I A Woman" in 1851 where she demand human rights for women and Black people.
Who is Souljourner Truth?
500
He was the founder of the Black Star Line.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
500
In 1921 a clash between White and Black residents left as many as 300 people dead, 10,000 Blacks were left homeless and rioters destroyed the wealthiest Black community in America.
What is the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921?
500
In 1966, SNCC and CORE fully embraced this slogan, bringing in a new chapter of the Civil Rights Movement.
What is "Black Power?"