This legislation made any federal marshal or other official who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave liable to a fine of $1,000
What is Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?
100
In 1770, this man became the first caualty of the American Revolution when he was shot and killed in what became known as the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
100
In 1992, Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois was the first black woman ever elected to ___________.
What is United States Senate?
100
Known as “the Great Dissenter,” the first African American member of the Supreme Court won 29 of the 32 cases that he argued before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
100
This string instrument originated in Africa and up until the 1800s was considered an instrument only played by blacks.
What is the banjo?
200
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry was inspired by this Supreme Court Case, which challenged racist real estate covenants?
What is Hansberry v. Lee?
200
This building in Beacon Hill is now the oldest black church edifice still standing in the United States
What is the African Meeting House?
200
This African American woman, the first to make a bid to be President of the United States when she ran for the Democratic nomination in 1972, was also the first black congresswoman, going on to serve seven terms.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
200
The longest serving African American on the federal bench, his ruling against President Nixon, which was ultimately upheld by the Supreme Court in United States v. U.S. District Court ultimately led to the creation of the “FISA” court.
Who is Damon J. Keith?
200
This educator and author was the first African-American to be honored on a U.S. stamp, in 1940.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
This Act, passed in 1957 was the first major civil rights legislation in more than 75 years.
What is Voting Rights Bill of 1957?
300
W.E.B. Du Bois established the first branch of this black advocacy organization here in Boston in 1912.
What is the NAACP?
300
In 1993 she, became the first black and the first woman United States Surgeon General.
Who is M. Joycelyn Elders?
300
The nation’s first Black federal magistrate, he was appointed in 1937 to the District Court in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Who is William H. Hastie?
300
This early 20th century tap dancer is rumored to be the inventor of the word "copasetic".
Who is Bill "Bojangles" Robinson?
400
This act,the first state legislation prohibiting discrimination in employment on the basis of race, creed, or color, was passed in 1945.
What is The Ives-Quinn Act?
400
He became the first Black American Justice of the Peace after becoming the first licensed Black American attorney admitted to the bar in Boston in 1845.
Who is Macon Bolling Allen?
400
The first African American woman to become a federal judge.
Who is Constance Baker Motley?
400
The first black student editor of the Harvard Law Review, who later went on to head the Brown v. Board of Education Litigation.
Who is Charles Hamilton Houston?
400
This maiden was the first and only known female Buffalo Soldier. Posing as a man, she enlisted in the 38th infantry in 1866, receiving a medical discharge in 1868.
Who is Cathay Williams?
500
This law, the most famous ban on miscegenation anti-miscegenation law in the United States, was overturned by the United States Supreme Court in 1967, in Loving v. Virginia.
What is the Racial Integrity Act of 1924?
500
This Auguste St. Gaudens' brass relief, which stands on the Boston Common, honors the heroic role of black U.S. 54th Regiment during the Civil War.
What is the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial?
500
"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament," wrote this lawyer and activist in her 1971 book "Abortion Rap."
Who is Florynce Kennedy?
500
The winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Peace for his successful negotiation of an Arab-Israeli truce in Palestine the previous year.
Who is Ralph Bunche?
500
The first African American admitted to the Florida Bar, also wrote the lyrics to the Black National Anthem "Lift Every Voice and Sing".