Music
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Art
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Medicine
100
This musician was an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist ever since he was 11, and been blind since after birth.
Who is, Stevland Hardaway Morris or Stevie Wonder?
100
This Maxine Snowden invented a very useful hat to help repel rain without holding an umbrella.
What is, the rain hat?
100
This African American sculptor worked for most of her career in Rome. She is the first woman of African-American heritage and Native American heritage to achieve international fame and recognition as a sculptor in the fine arts world.
Who is, Edmonia Lewis?
100
This African American scientist was a biologist, academic and science writer. He advocated the study of whole cells under normal conditions, rather than simply breaking them apart in a laboratory setting.
Who is, Ernest Everest Just?
100
This African American biologist was a cancer researcher, and academic administrator.
Who is, Jewel Cobb?
200
An American composer, pianist and bandleader of jazz orchestras. This musician led his orchestra from 1923 until his death, his career spanning over 50 years.
Who is, Duke Ellington?
200
Without G.T. Sampson, people would have a hard time drying their clothes, and laundromats would never exist.
What is, the clothes dryer?
200
This African American artist's style evolved from realism to expressionism to a powerful folk style for which he is best known
Who is, William Johnson?
200
This African American scientist was a computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist. She worked for the Lewis Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Who is, Annie Easley?
200
This African American is an associate professor of neurobiology at Duke University Medical Center. He leads a team of researchers who study the neurobiology of vocal learning.
Who is, Erich Jarvis?
300
This musician is singer, dancer, actress, and author, whose career has spanned more than half a century, earning her widespread recognition and numerous awards. Born and raised in the Southeastern United States, she is now a Swiss citizen
Who is, Anna Mae Bullock, or, her stage name Tina Turner?
300
Robert Fleming invented a very popular invention musical invention which is used in almost every single song.
What is, the guitar?
300
This African American artist was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. And was not Frederick Douglass.
Who is, Aaron Douglas?
300
This African American scientist is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. He also had his own show on science channel, and founded the Department of Astrophysics in the American Museum of Natural History.
Who is Neil Degrasse Tyson?
300
This person was an American physician, surgeon, and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II. This allowed medics to save thousands of lives of the Allied forces.
Who is, Dr. Charles Drew?
400
This African American musician was very popular in the 1920s to 1960s for his jazz songs, featuring himself as the trumpeter.
Who is, Louis Armstrong?
400
Without Charles Brooks, our streets would never be clean.
What is, the street sweeper?
400
This African-American painter known for his portrayal of African-American life. He referred to his style as "dynamic cubism,".
Who is, Jacob Lawrence?
400
This African American scientist is an African-American inventor, physicist, and space scientist. He has lived most of his life in Washington, DC.
Who is, George Robert Carruthers?
400
This woman was the first African American dentist.
Who is Dr. Ida Gray?
500
This African American musician was an American blues singer. Nicknamed The Empress of the Blues, and was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. This musician is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era.
Who is Bessie Smith?
500
L.C Bailey inventor was an invertor and business man, a solider himself, he invented something which could be used for tents and camps.
What is, the folding bed?
500
This self-taught African-American painter painted on the injustice of slavery and American segregation figure in many of his paintings.
Who is, Horace Pippin?
500
This African American was a nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician, who gained first fame on entering the University of Chicago at age 13, becoming its youngest ever student. His intelligence led to him being referred to as a "negro genius" in the media.
Who is, J. Ernest Wilkins Jr.?
500
This African American doctor performed the second documented successful pericardium surgery to repair a wound and created a non segregated hospital.
Who is, Daniel Williams?
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