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Azusa Street
100
This is the title of one of Maya Angelou’s most famous books which was published in 1969 and which became the first of seven of her autobiographies.
What is "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"
100
Willie O'Rhee was the first Black player in the National Hockey League. He played for this New England based team whose home base is also known as "Beantown".
Who are the Boston Bruins
100
There have been two African American Governors in the United States. One was L. Douglas Wilder, who served as governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994. The other is the name of the last governor of Massachusetts who served from 2007 to 2015.
Who is Deval Patrick
100
Thomas J. Martin is someone who you can thank for helping prevent the spread of your kitchen fire if you ever experience such a thing as he patented this wonderful fire fighting device to keep in homes in 1872.
What is the fire extinguisher
100
The Azusa Street Revival was a glorious outpouring of the Holy Ghost that took place in this city.
What is Los Angeles
200
This nobel prize and pulitzer prize winning author is considered the voice of African American women. Two of her notable works are “Sula” and “Beloved”.
Who is Toni Morrison
200
In 1992, Dominique Dawes and Elizabeth Okino became the first Black athletes to compete in what Olympic sport?
What is gymnastics
200
On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of this famous memorial in Washington D.C named after a former U. S. president.
What is the Lincoln Memorial
200
The earliest form of this which we use after washing clothes was invented in 1892 by George Sampson by using heat from a stove.
What is a clothes dryer
200
This is the year that the Azusa Street Revival began
What is 1906
300
This author who was born in Mississippi in 1908 found out later in life he had nothing "wrong" with is last name as he became famous for penning “Native Son” and “Black Boy” which mirrored his own struggle with poverty and coming of age journey.
Who is Richard Wright
300
She was the first African American woman to play in Wimbledon and US national tennis championship and win twice (1957 and 1958). She won 56 tournaments, including 5 grand slam single events.
Who is Althea Gibson
300
This type of marriage was banned in 1664. It wasn't legalized until 1967.
What is Interracial Marriage
300
David Crosthwait, Jr. received 40 U.S patents for his work relating to these types of systems that we use often today to help keep us warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
What is HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning)
300
This holiness preacher, who shares the same name as one of our deacons, was banned from preaching in churches due to his Pentecostal Message and references to glossolalia.
Who is William Seymour
400
Zora Neale Hurston writings focused on the culture and traditions of African Americans through the poetry of the speech. Perhaps the most famous of her writings is this book that bears God in the title.
What is "This Eyes Were Watching God"
400
Jackie Robinson broke Major League baseball's color barrier when he was signed to this New York baseball team in 1946. This team later moved to Los Angeles in 1957.
Who are the Brooklyn Dodgers
400
The name of this group of integrated student volunteers in 1961 began taking bus trips seeking through the South to protest laws that segregated interstate travel facilities, which included bus and railway stations.
What is the Freedom Riders
400
The next time we are looking in our closet to find the perfect pair to go with our outfit, we can thank Jan Ernst Matzeliger for inventing this machine in 1883 allowing them to be massed produced thus affordable to the public.
What is a shoemaking machine
400
He was the founder of the Apostolic (Pentecostal) Faith Movement which he began after his students received the Holy Ghost evidenced by speaking in tongues at a bible school in Topeka, Kansas.
Who is Charles Parham
500
This author’s writings inspired nationwide interest in genealogy and popularized black history through some of his works such as “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” and “Roots”.
Who is Alex Haley
500
Add two to this number often used to signify God's completeness and you will get the number of Gold Medals that track and field athlete Carl Lewis won in his career.
What is nine
500
On February 1, 1960 a lunch counter sit-in by four college students takes place at a Woolworth's in this city, where we will be having our Holy Convocation this year, and spreads through the South sparking the formation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in April.
What is Greensboro (North Carolina)
500
Lonnie G. Johnson was an engineer and inventor for NASA who holds 90 patents but Johnson may be most famous for inventing this water gun that was a top seller in the 1990's and brought a settlement of $73 million dollars to Johnson in 2013.
What is the Super Soaker
500
The name of this newspaper that was published about the happenings at Azusa street in an effort to spread the Pentecostal message bears the same name of our faith.
What is "The Apostolic Faith"
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