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Africa
Arts & Literature
Black History
100
She led so many slaves to freedon that she came to be known as "the Moses of Her People" . What was her name?
Who is Harriet Tubman.
100
The first black woman to obtain a license to fly a plane.
Who is Bessie Coleman?
100
High rugged mountains of northwest Africa.
What is the Atlas Mountains?
100
This person wrote the groundbreaking novel Invisible Man.
Who is Ralph Ellison?
100
This person was President of the U.S. when Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
200
This person taught the principle that "Black is Beautiful"
Who is Malcolm X?
200
This person developed a synthetic form of a hormon called cortisone.
Who is Percy Julian?
200
This line divides the continent of Africa into the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
200
First African American woman to host a nationally syndicated TV talk show.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
200
In the 1960's this form of civil rights protest began with a bus ride through the South.
What is the Freedom Rides?
300
In 1898 she headed a delegation that brought the issue of lynching before President McKinley
Who is Ida B Wells?
300
This person established the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters to fight disciminatory practices of the Pullman Company.
Who is A. Philip Randolph?
300
This desert is the size of the continental United States and the largest desert on the continent of Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
300
Author of A Raisin in the Sun.
Who is Lorraine Hansberry?
300
This person wrote the best-selling novel Disappearing Acts.
Who is Terry McMillan?
400
He succeeded Stokeyl Carmichael as Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordianting Committee.
Who is H. Rap Brown?
400
In 1893, former slave nancy Green became the world'd first "living trademark".
What is Aunt Jemima?
400
This person shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with F.W.deKlerk.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
400
A novel that traced the history of a black American family to its early African origins.
What is "Roots" ?
400
The Queen of Soul.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
500
This person had the greates influence on Martin Luther King, Jr's philosophy of nonvilent protest?
Who is Mahatma Ghandi?
500
He was the first African American to receive an honrary degree from Harvard University in 1896.
Who is Booker T Washington?
500
The Borge in Tanzania where the leakey family found bones of people who lived 1.75 millon years ago.
What is Olduvai Gorge?
500
The first black actor to win an Academy Award for best actor.
Who is Sidney Poitier?
500
This constitutional amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment.
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