Black History Month for Dummies
Who is the founder of Black History Week/Month?
Carter G. Woodson
Who is the Author of "I /Know Why the Caged Bird Sing" and "Still I Rise"
Maya Angelou
What is musicians "Muddy Waters" and "BB" King genre of music?
Blues
Who is the African American film director of "Do the Right Thing", "Malcom X", and "Jungle Fever"
Spike Lee
Gregory Hines was known for what type of dance in the 1980s and 90s?
Tap Dance
What is the oldest Civil Rights Organization called?
NAACP
An American writer who was an important figure in Harlem renaissance and made the African Americans experience the subject in all his writings?
Langston Huges
In 1973, the Bronx DJ Kool Hero and Coke La Rock started a new.. The genre of music which includes DJ-ing, MC-ing, Graffiti, Break Dancing, Beat Boxing, and sampling to make songs about racial violence in the inner city, sexism, money disparities.
Hip Hop
An African American fashion journalist, stylist, and creative director of Vogue Magazine, known as a fashion icon.
Andre' Leon Taley
Misty Copelan is trained in this type of dance?
Ballet
The author of "Lift Every Voice and Sing"
James Weldon Johnson
The author who was considered the first African American author of s published book of poetry?
Phillis Wheatley
The suffering of those in bondage, African Americans' first contributions to music shaped much of this traditional type of music
Negro Spirituals
The most photographed Black American in the 19th Century?
Frederick Douglass
This African American is male, is one of the most important choreographers in the history of modern dance. He founded his own dance theatre.
Alvin Ailey
The wealthiest Black Woman in America
Oprah Winfrey
World-renowned poet of the Black Arts Movement and Black Power Movement in the 1960s, contributed to the Civil Rights Movement through the power of artistic expression
Nikki Giovanni
In 1955, she became the first African American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera in New York
Marian Anderson
He has been called the greatest African American painter to date. His most famous work is "The Banjo Lesson" and "African American Life"
Henry O. Tanner
This international superstar gained her fame through cabaret performances, her iconic dance was commonly called the Banana Dance
Josephine Baker