Harlem Renaissance
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This city was the birthplace of the Harlem Renaissance, which was called a literary and intellectual flowering that fostered a new black cultural identity in the 1920s and 1930s.
What is New York City
100
She was the first African American woman to serve as United States Secretary of State, and the first African American and the first woman to serve as the President’s National Security Advisor.
Who is Condoleezza Rice
100
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman
100
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks
100
Also a social activist and philanthropist, he was the first boxer to win the world heavyweight championship three times.
Who is Muhammad Ali
200
This writer and sociologist was co-founder of the NAACP, and was one of the most famous social activists during the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois
200
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
200
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
200
Nonviolent leader of the Civil Rights Movement; delivered "I have a Dream" speech; Nobel Peace Prize winner
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
200
Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Who is Beyonce Knowles
300
Credited as one of the founding fathers of the Harlem Renaissance, this playwright/poet/novelist became famous for his first published poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”.
Who is Langston Hughes
300
In 1967, he became the first African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall
300
Who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
Who is Maya Angelou
300
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia and Boynton v. Virginia, which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.
Who are Freedom Riders
300
He broke the color barrier in baseball and became the first African American to play in the major leagues.
Who is Jackie Robinson
400
This theatre rose to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance, during which time it was reputed to only hire black entertainers; of these were James Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday.
What is The Apollo Theatre
400
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
400
Which famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?
Who is Muhammad Ali
400
When did the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama take place?
What is 1965. In 1965, white resistance to a black voter registration drive led to a Freedom March, from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to protest discrimination at the polls. Congress soon passed the Voting Rights Act soon after.
400
Founded by Barry Gordy in 1959, this company became one of the most successful black-owned companies in the nation, and cultivated the careers of music greats such as Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.
What is Motown Records
500
This official publication of the National Urban League employed Harlem Renaissance writers and editors, published poems and short stories by African Americans, and promoted African American literature.
What is Opportunity Magazine
500
In what year did Abraham Lincoln issue his Emancipation Proclamation?
What is 1863
500
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
500
Who took steps to petition the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to investigate charges that the United States was violating not just the civil rights, but also the human rights, of African Americans?
Who is Malcolm X
500
In February 2003 she was listed in Forbes' Billionare list, making her the first African American woman to do so.
Who is Oprah Winfrey
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