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Influential People
100
This man was an American jazz and swing music drummer. He was born in Baltimore in 1905.
Who is Chick Webb?
100
To whites Billy Robinson "Bon;Angles" but to blacks he was referred to as this nickname.
Who is Squabbler?
100
This man was born in Topeka, Kansas and is considered to be the "Father of African American Arts".
Who is Aaron Douglas?
100
This woman had many short stories and famous essays and was often called Marita Occommy.
Who is Marita Bonner?
100
This man is known as the the leader of the Harlem Renaissance and wrote about the period when "the negro was in vogue".
Who is Langston Hughes?
200
This American jazz singer, songwriter, actress, was nicknamed "Lady Day". This person pioneered a whole new way of using phrase and tempo.
Who is Billie Holiday?
200
This dance became popular by combining European steps, African movements, and jazz music.
What is the Charleston Dance?
200
This woman painted others and did portraits while teaching.
Who is Lois Mailou Jones?
200
This man's first novel published was Cane.
Who is Jean Tommer?
200
This place was the first of its kind in Harlem for 12 years and 4 years in the Theater District. It was a whites-only establishment while featuring the many of the best black entertainers.
What is the Cotton Club?
300
This song was written by Wallis Willis. It has been sung by many artists such as Bone Thugs N Harmony and Beyonce.
What is "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"?
300
This woman was the first African American Performer to break free of racial offense. She was very popular in France for her dancing.
Who is Josephine Baker?
300
This woman became known by opening up her own studio to allow others to sculpt. She worked for equal rights in African American Arts.
Who is Augusta Savage?
300
This women was a nurse and published the two novels, Quicksand and Passing.
Who is Nella Larsen?
300
This was the act of millions of African Americans moving away from their hometowns to the urban lifestyle. This movement changed the whole demographic of a specific ethnicity in the United States.
What is the Great Migration?
400
This song dates back to the era of slavery in the U.S. The song is an expression of pain and despair as it conveys the hopelessness of a child who has been torn from his or her parents.
What is "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child"?
400
This defined the essence of dance in Harlem.
What is the Savoy Ballroom?
400
This organization was formed in 1909 in the United States, with its main goal to eliminate racial discrimination and hatred along with equality.
What is the NAACP?
400
This man was famous for his novel "The Blacker The Berry". He wrote essays, published newspapers and literary journals.
Who is Wallace Thurman?
400
This person was a leader in the African-American community. He/she was an advisor to presidents and was born in one of the last generations of slavery. His speech made him nationally famous.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
500
This man influenced the development of jazz. He is known as a pioneer of scat singing.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
500
Countee Cullen wrote about the joy of dance in this poem.
What is "She of the Dancing Feet Sings"?
500
This group is a civil rights organization that is based in New York City that focuses on racial discrimination in the United States. It is the largest community-based group of its kind in the United States
What is the Urban League?
500
This women is a novelist mainly known for novel "The Living is Easy". She wrote about the life of a upper-class black family through short stories and essays.
Who is Dorothy West?
500
This man strongly protested about lynching, Jim Crow laws, and discrimination in education and employment. His cause included people of color everywhere, particularly Africans and Asians in their struggles against colonialism and imperialism.
Who is W.E.B Du Bois?
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