INVENTORS/FAMOUS FIRSTS

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His Gold Medal win in the 2006 Winter Olympics made him the first African-American to win an individual medal in the history of the Winter Games.
ANSWER:  Who is Shani Davis?

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He invented the steam engine lubricator and the expression “the real McCoy,” meaning the real, authentic, or high-quality thing.   
ANSWER:  Who was Elijah McCoy?

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The first African American to sing on stage at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1955. 
ANSWER: Who was Marian Anderson?

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The first states to legalize and abolish slavery, respectively.
ANSWER:  What are Massachusetts and Pennsylvania?

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The first African-American woman to head an Ivy League institution.
ANSWER:  Who is Dr. Ruth Simmons, President, Brown University (2001)

SPORTS/ENTERTAINMENT/ARTS

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I won the NBA MVP Award five times as a member of the Chicago Bulls
ANSWER:  Who is Michael Jordan?

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He earned multiple Academy Awards in the “Best Sound” category in 1990 for his work in the film “Glory” and the same award in 1991 for his work on the film, “Dances with Wolves”.
ANSWER:  Who is Russell Williams, II?

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He is the outspoken black athlete who made the following statement:
 “It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”
ANSWER:  Who is Muhammad Ali?

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Also known as Hitsville, USA, Berry Gordy, Jr founded this company in Detroit in 1959.
ANSWER:  What is Motown?

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He was the writer-director-actor of the movie “Do the Right Thing”.
ANSWER:  Who is Spike Lee?

SCIENCE

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She was the first African-American woman in space.
ANSWER:  Who is Mae C. Jamison?

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He holds 3 of the 9 IBM patents for the personal computer.
ANSWER:  Who is Mark Dean?

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She patented a method to use a laser to remove cataracts from the eye.
ANSWER:  Who is Dr. Patricia Bath?

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The last cases of smallpox on Earth occurred in 1978, due in large part to the efforts of this his leadership with the Smallpox Eradication Program.
ANSWER:  Who is Dr. Donald Hopkins

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Time Magazine, in 2005, described her as “perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science”, and the National Science Board describes her  as “a national treasure”.
ANSWER:  Who is Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson (President, Rensselaer Univ)

CIVIL RIGHTS

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This historical event propelled Martin Luther King, Jr. to national prominence as a leader of the civil rights movement.
ANSWER: What is the boycott in 1955-56 by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, against the segregated city bus lines?

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As a 15 year-old high school student at Booker T. Washington High School in Montgomery, Alabama, I refused to give up my bus seat to a white person 9 months before Rosa Parks
ANSWER:  Who is Claudette Colvin.  

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She won 3 Gold Medals for Track in the 1960 Olympics, but she’s most proud of successfully fighting for the desegregation of her town’s homecoming parade in the same year.
ANSWER:  Who is Wilma Rudolph?

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The passage of this Act official brought an end to “Jim Crow” laws, which made discrimination against blacks legal.
ANSWER: What is the Fair Housing Act of 1968?

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Founded by civil rights leader Jesse Jackson in 1971, this organization was formerly known as “Operation Breadbasket”.
ANSWER:  Operation P.U.S.H. (People United to Serve Humanity)

POTPOURRI

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He accompanied the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) to the Pacific Ocean and was the first African-American to travel across the North American continent.
ANSWER: Who is York?

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The average price of a healthy male slave at the start of the slave trade?
ANSWER: What is $60.00?

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He is widely considered the father of Black History Month
ANSWER:  Who is Dr. Carter G. Woodson?

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The author of this New York Times Best Seller recently made history by becoming the first African-American to become President of the United States.
ANSWER:  What is “The Audacity of Hope”?

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Born “Clive Campbell” in Kingston, Jamaica, this Hip-Hop DJ would later be be known as the “Father of Hip-Hop Culture”.
ANSWER:  DJ Kool Herc

FINAL JEOPARDY

Category: “Baby Mama Drama”

Which founding “father” of the United States is alleged to be connected to the following people:
•    The retired Chairman of the Board of DuPont Chemical Corporation,
•    The first black assemblyman in the history of the State of California,
•    One of the co-founders of the NAACP,
•    The first black tenured faculty member of any college in America,
•    The first black woman ever to graduate from Vassar College,

ANSWER:  Who is Thomas Jefferson?
They are the alleged direct descendants of the slave children of Thomas Jefferson