Statistics for African-American Historical Figures

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Clue	Person	% Correct
First black President	Barack Obama	100%
He had a dream	Martin Luther King, Jr.	99%
She refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama	Rosa Parks	91%
TV hostess and billionaire	Oprah Winfrey	78%
Black Muslim who said "It's got to be the ballot or the bullet"	Malcolm X	74%
Olympian who stuck it to Hitler by winning 4 gold medals	Jesse Owens	63%
Broke baseball's color barrier	Jackie Robinson	61%
Escaped slave who returned 13 times to free 70 more people	Harriet Tubman	51%
First African-American to win an Oscar for Best Actress (2002)	Halle Berry	50%
Botanist who studied peanuts	George Washington Carver	43%
First black Secretary of State	Colin Powell	40%
Abolitionist orator who said "What to the slave is the 4th of July?"	Frederick Douglass	37%
First African-American to win an Oscar for Best Actor (1964)	Sidney Poitier	37%
First black Supreme Court justice	Thurgood Marshall	34%
First President of Tuskegee University	Booker T. Washington	32%
Author of "Roots"	Alex Haley	28%
Jazz singer who sang "Strange Fruit", an anti-lynching protest song	Billie Holiday	20%
Cotton Club band leader, called the greatest jazz composer of all-time	Duke Ellington	18%
NAACP co-founder and first African-American to earn a PhD from Harvard	W.E.B. Du Bois	18%
First person killed in the Boston Massacre	Crispus Attucks	17%
Abolitionist and gender-equality activist who said "Ain't I a Woman"	Sojourner Truth	17%
Author of "Invisible Man"	Ralph Ellison	14%