| Clue | Person | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| First black President | Barack Obama | 100%
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| He had a dream | Martin Luther King, Jr. | 99%
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| She refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama | Rosa Parks | 91%
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| TV hostess and billionaire | Oprah Winfrey | 78%
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| Black Muslim who said "It's got to be the ballot or the bullet" | Malcolm X | 74%
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| Olympian who stuck it to Hitler by winning 4 gold medals | Jesse Owens | 62%
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| Broke baseball's color barrier | Jackie Robinson | 60%
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| Escaped slave who returned 13 times to free 70 more people | Harriet Tubman | 51%
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| First African-American to win an Oscar for Best Actress (2002) | Halle Berry | 49%
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| Botanist who studied peanuts | George Washington Carver | 43%
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| First black Secretary of State | Colin Powell | 39%
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| Abolitionist orator who said "What to the slave is the 4th of July?" | Frederick Douglass | 37%
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| First African-American to win an Oscar for Best Actor (1964) | Sidney Poitier | 36%
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| First black Supreme Court justice | Thurgood Marshall | 34%
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| First President of Tuskegee University | Booker T. Washington | 31%
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| Author of "Roots" | Alex Haley | 27%
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| Jazz singer who sang "Strange Fruit", an anti-lynching protest song | Billie Holiday | 20%
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| NAACP co-founder and first African-American to earn a PhD from Harvard | W.E.B. Du Bois | 18%
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| Cotton Club band leader, called the greatest jazz composer of all-time | Duke Ellington | 17%
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| First person killed in the Boston Massacre | Crispus Attucks | 16%
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| Abolitionist and gender-equality activist who said "Ain't I a Woman" | Sojourner Truth | 16%
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| Author of "Invisible Man" | Ralph Ellison | 14%
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