ARTS
Who wrote "Their Eyes were Watching God"?
Zora Neale Hurston
What colonial era crop had a significant shortage of workers which demanded a large number of Africans to be imported to the Americas?
Tobacco
Classic blues singers, Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, and Alberta Hunter, were women who came out of what performance tradition?
Vaudeville
Where did the "sit-in" movement begin?
Woolworth's store in Greensboro, NC
Who invented the control unit for the artificial heart stimulator?
Otis Boykin
This director, screenwriter and actor was born in Atlanta but relocated to Brooklyn, where he later established a film company. Whether working wit ha low-budget and unknown actors or Hollywood heavyweights, his films continue to be controversial and push racial boundaries. Name him.
Spike Lee
What was Madame C.J. Walker's real name?
Sara Breedlove Walker
What television program has received over 25 Emmy awards and has been the highest-rated talk show in television history?
The Oprah Winfrey Show
Who was the first Black American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor?
William Carney
What breakthrough medical procedure was performed by Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
open heart surgery
Who was the first Black American poet to be nationally recognized for his writing?
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Who founded the National Negro Business League in 1900?
Booker T. Washington
In 1963, who became the first black man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the film, Lilies of the Field?
Sidny Poitier
She helped organize the National Federation of Afro-American Women in 1896 and was known as the lady principal of Tuskegee.
Margaret Murray Washington
Who was the first Black American to pilot a space shuttle mission?
Major Frederick D. Gregory
Who is the controversial poet and author of My House is Divided into Two Sections who emerged from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and became a professor of English?
Nikki Giovanni
What is the name of Oprah Winfrey's TV production company?
Harpo productions
Gordon Parks was the first African American to write, direct and score a major Hollywood film in 1969. What is the name of his work?
The Learning Tree
In the late nineteenth century there was a system of laws that enforced racial discrimination in the United States. What was it called?
Jim Crow
August Jackson created what well-known dessert?
Ice cream
What New York City neighborhood saw a flowering of Black Artists in the 20th century?
Harlem
In the agricultural field some former slaves were sharecroppers. What was meant by this term?
A tenant farmer would give his share of crops he raised to the landlord for rent.
Who was the first African American artist to make a blues record and sell a million copies in less than a year?
Mamie Smith
Who sang spiritual songs to communicate with slaves she intended to take north to freedom on the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
This self-taught engineer is the creator of the video game cartridge.
Gerald Lawson