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During the Great Migration, a total of six million African-Americans moved from the South to Northern Cities. 


What does Migration mean

Movement from one place to another

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The most widely acclaimed African-American artist of the 20th century. He is best known for his Migration Series.


Who was Jacob Lawrence

100

In 2016 this artist released a visual album and album about making this drink out of lemons

Who is Beyonce and What is Lemonade

100

Who wrote the book "Brown Girl Dreaming"

Who is Jacqueline Woodson

100

Who invented over 300 different uses for peanuts, but he did not invent peanut butter?

Who was George Washington Carver

200

In 1964 this man was famous for his speech that began with "I have a dream"

Who is Martin Luther King Jr. 

200

One of her most famous story quilts is Tar Beach, which depicts a family gathered on their rooftop on a hot summer night.

Who is Faith Ringgold?

200

In the movie Wonder Woman (2017), Wonder Woman comes to Earth to stop Ares, God of War. Which war was she trying to stop

What is World War I?

200
The first published African-American female poet. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America.


Who was Phillis Wheatley, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly.

200

Who invented incandescent light bulb?



Who was Lewis Howard Latimer

300

In this year the 13th amendment granted citizenship and rights to all African-Americans and outlawed slavery. What year was this

1865

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He was a painter, scholar, and teacher, who associated with abstract expressionism, and used representational strategies to focus on black urban life and his community's struggles.


Who was Norman Wilfred Lewis


300

In Avengers: Infinity War, the end of the movie seems pretty grim. Before Nick Fury disappears, he calls a superhero who's movie is coming out.

Who is Captain Marvel

300
He won the Coretta Scott King Award for African-American authors five times.


Who was Walter Dean Myers

300
After suffering from a scalp ailment that resulted in her own hair loss, she invented a line of African-American hair care products in 1905.


Who was Madam CJ Walker

400

From 1867 to 1964 there were laws that limited the rights of African-Americans in the United states. These laws encouraged segregation. 


What is Segregation?


The action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.

400

The first African American to produce and direct major motion pictures—developing films relating the experience of slaves and struggling black Americans, and creating the "blaxploitation" genre


Who was Gordon Parks

400

On Sunday (July 22nd) a trailer will be released for a new DC Universe movie. Portrayed by Jason Mamoa, this superhero was featured in the movie Justice League. Who is it

Who is Aquaman

400
The author of "Song of Solomon" "Beloved," "Jazz" and other lyrically narrated novels of black American life, has won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature


Who is Toni Morrison

400
On April 26, 1892, she obtained United States patent rights for her improvements to the ironing board.


Who was Sarah Boone

500

In 1964, this act was passed in the United States. This act ensured equal treatment of all people regardless of skin color and ended segregation

What is the Civil Rights Act

500
The first African-American painter to gain international acclaim.


Who was Henry Ossawa Tanner

500

This person was famous in the 1920's for her wild dancing. In the 1940's she became a spy for the American Army in France

Who is Josephine Baker

500
The poem "Bars Fight" is the earliest known work of literature by an African American.


Who was Lucy Terry

500

In 1983 this NASA Engineer applied for a patent for the Super Soaker, a popular toy in the 80's and 90's

Who is Lonnie Johnson

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