18th century
A traditional comfort food that was imported from France by James Hemings
What is Mac and Cheese?
Title of Alexandre Dumas' novel with a hero of mixed race
What is Georges?
Nickname for the 369th regiment that fought in France in World War I
Who are the Harlem Hellfighters?
Main character in the 2003 novel titled Rendez-vous 18th.
Who is Ricky Jenks?
The name of our hotel in Paris.
What is the Hotel Cluny Square?
A mixed race man from Martinique who became a famous fencer, violinist and composer in Paris.
Who is Joseph de Bologne (Chevalier de Saint George)?
The island where Thomas Alexandre Dumas was born and raised until age 12.
What is Saint Domingue (now Haiti)?
Author living in Paris who wrote "I Choose Exile" in 1951
Who is Richard Wright?
Tourist neighborhood in the north of Paris where Jake Lamar's novel takes place.
What is Montmartre?
DAILY DOUBLE!
Departure time of our return flight from Bordeaux
What is 6:00 a.m.?
DAILY DOUBLE!
Country in Africa that was Ourika's home until she was two years old.
What is Senegal?
This African American abolitionist said that he wore his hair long in admiration of Alexandre Dumas
Who is Frederick Douglas?
Title of the 1956 novel that James Baldwin wrote about living in Paris.
What is Giovanni's Room?
In 2022, the first Black woman and first American to be enshrined in the Pantheon in Paris.
Who is Josephine Baker?
The name of Alexandre Dumas's castle outside Paris that we will visit.
What is the Chateau de Monte Cristo (Monte Cristo Castle)?
Law passed by the French government in 1794 that changed the lives of millions in the French colonies
What is the abolition of slavery?
Name of the francophone island off the coast of Madagascar where Dumas' 1843 novel takes place.
What is Mauritius Island or Ile de France?
Name of the international event that W.E.B. Du Bois organized in Paris in 1919.
What is the Pan African Congress?
Minneapolis chef and owner since 2017 of Soul Bowl who makes amazing mac and cheese
Who is Gerald Klass?
The name of Josephine Baker's castle that we will visit in the Dordogne valley.
What is Chateau des Milandes (Milandes Castles)?
Names of three of the six children that Sally Hemings had with Thomas Jefferson
Who are Harriet, Beverly, Madison and/or Eston?
The subject and the year that Louis Charles Roudanez received his PhD at the Sorbonne
What is Endocarditis (Heart disease) and 1853?
Psychiatrist from Martinique who wrote Black Skin White Masks in 1952 about the oppression of colonized subjects.
Who is Franz Fanon?
Author of the 2012 book Paris Noir, this African American historian was featured in the film "Myth of a Colorblind France."
Who is Tyler Stovall?
Activist group seeking to decolonize public spaces that will give us a walking tour of Bordeaux.
What is Memories and Sharing (Memoires et partages)?