Championship Round Black History Bowl 25

This African American baseball player was the first to have a picture on the Wheaties box. We have a baseball field named for him.

• Jackie Robinson
• Roy Campanella
• Wardell Leach

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This 1956 Grand Slam Tennis Champion had her picture on the Wheaties cereal box in 2001. Forty-five years later.

• Venus Williams
• Althea Gibson
• CoCo Gauff

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This African American was the first African American astronaut. Check one

• Ron McNair
• Sally Ride
• Allen Sheppard
• Mae Jemison

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This civil rights leader believed in fighting racial inequalities by any means necessary.

• Benjamin Hooks
• Andrew Young
• Malcolm X

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This 1990's R&B singer and actress has roots in Mississippi. You didn't catch her sitting in her room, saying the boy is mine.

• Monica
• Ledsi
• Brandi

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This musical icon was born in the Mississippi Delta and his friend Lucille is still there.

• Robert Johnson
• Aaron Baby Bell
• B.B. King

This Mississippi native was once the queen of daytime television talk shows. She now owns her own television network.

• Robin Roberts
• Jennifer Hudson
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This African American was the youngest to win the U.S. Junior Golf Championship.

• Lee Elder
• Tiger Woods

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This musical sensation got her start on American Idol, has recorded hit albums, performed on Broadway and starred in the movie version of the Color Purple as cealy.

• Whoppi Goldberg
• Jennifer Hudson
• Fantasia Barrino

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This man was the First African American Mayor of Yazoo City, Mississippi.

• Wardell Leach
• David Mel Starling
• Herman Leach

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