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Who is SIDNEY POITIER?
This is the first Black man nominated for an Academy Award.
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Who is DOUG WILLIAMS?
This is the first Black quarterback to start in a Super Bowl game.
100
Who is CLARENCE THOMAS?
This is the name of the former Chairman of the Equal Opportunity Commission who was later appointed a Supreme Court Justice.
100
Who is JACK JOHNSON?
This is the heavyweight boxing champion with the initials J. J.
100
What is the CHICK WEBB ORCHESTRA?
This is the orchestra of which Ella Fitzgerald sang with and eventually became the leader.
200
What is THE MEDICO-CIRURGICAL SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA?
This is the name of the first Black medical society/
200
Who is MAL JOHNSON?
This is the first Black television reporter to cover the White House.
200
Who is CARTER G. WOODSON?
This is the founder of the quarterly publication Journal of Negro History, and the founder of Negro History Week (now Black History Month) who also established the first historical society devoted exclusively to research on the Black American.
200
What is PUBLIC ENEMY?
This is the hip-hop group that created the theme song "Fight the Power" to Spike Lee's film Do The Right Thing.
200
Who are MILT JACKSON, JOHN LEWIS, PERCY HEATH, and CONNIE KAY?
These are the original members of the Modern Jazz Quartet.
300
Who is DAVIS H. BLACKWELL?
This is the name of the first Black member of the National academy of Sciences in 1965?
300
Who is FREDDIE STOWERS?
This is the first Black person to win the medal of Honor for service in World War I?
300
Who is MAHALIA JACKSON?
This is the gospel singer who performed at John F. Kennedy's 1961 inauguration.
300
What is PAN-AFRICANISM?
This is the movement that encourage Black people to return to the African motherland.
300
Who is ELLA FITZGERALD?
This is the singer who made the song A Tisket, A Tasket famous.
400
Who is MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.?
This is the first Black minister to win the Nobel Peace Prize
400
What is ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, INCORPORATED?
This is the first Black collegiate Greek fraternity.
400
What is BOYZ II MEN?
This is the Grammy award-winning Philadelphia quartet that sold over 4 million copies of their album Cooley High Harmony.
400
Who is RAY CHARLES?
This is the musician who recorded the hit song "Georgia On My Mind" in 1959.
400
Who is LENA HORNE?
This is the singer who will always be remembered for her version of Stormy Weather.
500
Who is ROBERT T. GREENER?
This is the first Black person to graduate from Harvard College.
500
Who is JOSEPH JENKINS ROBERTS?
This is the first president of Liberia.
500
What is THE PLATTERS?
This is the group who performed the 1970s hit Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
500
What is THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE?
This is the novel Gloria Naylor wrote that became a television movie starring Oprah Winfrey.
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Who is ISAAC HAYES?
This is the singer known as "Little Moses."






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