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Big Freedia help to popularize this New Orleans genre of hip hop music ?
What is bounce?
Tulane admitted its first Black students in the fall of ___?
What is 1963?
In August 1831, this man struck fear into the hearts of white Southerners by leading the only effective slave rebellion in U.S. history.
Who is Nat Turner?
Wakanda is located on this continent
What is Africa?
This Compton based rapper performed original songs on the soundtrack to the Black Panther movie.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
In July 2020, in light of anti-Black violence sweeping the country, this Tulane student organization authored and issued a list of demands and expectations of Tulane University.
What is Tulane Black Student Union?
What amendment to the constitution abolished slavery?
What is the 13th Amendment?
They were both created in 1966, but which one came first, the comic book or the political party?
What is the Black Panther, the comic book?
This James Brown song was released in 1968, four months after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., boldly celebrating Black culture.
What is "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud"?
Nicknamed ‘The Peanut Man”, this agricultural scientist and inventor also invented crop rotation
Who is George Washington Carver?
15 Tulane medical students posed for a viral photo in front of slave quarters of this plantation
What is the Whitney plantation?
She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans on November 14, 1960, and the the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
The Black Panther party was founded in 1966 by these two students?
Who is Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
This instrument originated in Africa and up until the 1820’s was considered an instrument only played by Black people.
What is the banjo?
The NOLA engineer, Norbert Rillieux, revolutionized the refining process of this popular perennial grass for sucrose
What is the sugar cane?
In the fall of 1967, she walked into Tulane Law School as one of only four women – and the only African-American woman -- starting courses that year.
Who is Janice Martin Foster.
#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of this man's murderer.
Who is Trayvon Martin?
The film, Black Panther, opens with a scene set in this city, which is also a birthplace of the Black Panther Party.
What is Oakland?
This famous New Orleans restaurant makes an appearance in Ray Charles' 1958 song "Early in the Morning" song
What is Dooky Chase?
These two students sought admission to Tulane's graduate programs in sociology and social work, and became the plaintiffs in the lawsuit to desegregate Tulane University.
Who is Barbara Guillory Thompson and Pearlie Hardin Elloie?
She became the first African-American candidate for a major party's nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
She led and chaired the Black Panther Party from 1974 until 1977 and was the only woman to ever do so.
Who is Elaine Brown?