Sunflower
From what college did Martin Luther King, Jr. graduate?
Morehouse College
Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker were innovators of what type of music in the early 1940s?
Bebop
Who wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave in 1845?
Frederick Douglass
In what state is Tuskegee University located?
Alabama
In 1925, what was the first black Catholic college opened in New Orleans, Louisiana called?
Xavier University
Who is a dancer-choreographer, a director and producer; and was involved with the television show Fame?
Debbie Allen
What state has the highest number of black institutions of higher learning?
Georgia
In 1953, Ralph Ellison received the National Book Award for what book?
Invisible Man
In 1865, Fisk University was founded in what city?
Nashville, Tennessee
What type of music with an emphasis on improvisation began in New Orleans around the 1900s?
Jazz
What real life person did Halle Berry portray in the TV miniseries Queen?
Alex Haley’s paternal grandmother
What was the focus of Alice Walker’s Novel Meridian?
Civil Rights Movement
Who was known as the “queen of gospel music.” Her first recording “Move on Up a Little Higher” sold over a million copies in 1945?
Mahalia Jackson
Who was the principal at Tuskegee Institute who recruited and hired George Washington Carver?
Booker T. Washington
Who was the dancer-choreographer founded his own dance company in 1957 and developed Revelations, one of the best known, most often seen modern dance performances?
Alvin Ailey
What was the name of the 1861 work by Harriet A. Jacobs, which was considered the first work authored by a black female former slave called?
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Which famous Black author said, “Black writers do more than merely exhibit rage – they must analyze the roots of racial oppression”?
James Baldwin
In 1908, what was the first black sorority founded at Howard University?
Alpha Kappa Alpha
In 1988 Black American author Toni Morrison was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for what novel?
Beloved
Who played the role of Celie in the movie version of Alice Walker’s best-selling book, The Color Purple?
Whoopi Goldberg
Starting with $1.50 in cash, what college did Mary McLeod Bethune found?
Bethune-Cookman College
Who played the lead role in Miss Jane Pittman the movie?
Cicely Tyson
What is the full title of the essay “for colored girls” that made its dramatic debut in 1974 and was written by Ntozake Shange (pronounced En-toe-ZAHK-kay SHONG-gay)?
For Colored Girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Whose screenplay, Georgia, Georgia, was the first original script by a Black woman to be produced?
Maya Angelou
In what state was Langston Hughes born?
Missouri