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When was the first African American Literature written?
1746
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Who wrote the first known African American literature?
Lucy Terry
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What was the name of the first known African American literature?
Bars Fight
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What event allowed African Americans to write?
The Civil War
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What is another name for Southern Literature?
Antebellum
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When did African American Literature start to become more popular?
The 1920s
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Who was the first published African American author in the U.S.?
Phillis Wheatley
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What was the name of the first African American work of fiction that was published in the U.S.?
Our Nig Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
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What event helped African American literature to flourish?
The Harlem Renaissance
200
How many years did it take for "Bars Fight" to be published?
109 years
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When was Phillis Wheatley's work published?
1773
300
Which author was the first African American to graduate with a PhD.?
W.E.B. Du Bois
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Which book is considered important in Sociology?
"Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B Du Bois
300
When did the Civil Rights movement start?
1954
300
When did Jazz literary influence begin?
After World War II
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What year did the Civil War end?
1856
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Who gave the speech, "Up From Slavery"?
Booker T. Washington
400
What was a popular read during 1852?
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Where did the Harlem Renaissance begin?
New York
400
What famous person brought a huge audience to African American literature?
Oprah
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Why didn't more African Americans write before the Civil War?
It was illegal
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Who was a pioneer in several different genres in African American literature?
William Wells Brown
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What was one of the first published poems titled?
"An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries"
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When did African American literature hit the main stream market?
1970s
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Which two African American authors had extremely different views that opposed each other?
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
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