Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement
Poetry of the Black Arts Movement
Setting Things "Wright"
100
This collection of 14 essays of his was published in 1903.
What is The Souls of Black Folk?
100
"Well I'm a po'boy, long way from home.
Well I'm a po'boy, long way from home.
No spendin' money in my pocket, no spare ment on my bone."
is an example of this blues technique?
What is Call and Response.
100
He founded the Nation of Islam.
Who is Elijah Muhammed?
100
He said, "The cultural values inherent in western history must either be radicalized or destroyed, and we will probably find that even radicalization is impossible."
Who is Larry Neal?
100
She is one of the most-read African American writers, and female writers, of the 20th Century. Richard Wright was one of her biggest critics.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
200
He shared in the founding of this organization.
What is the NAACP?
200
This genre of African American music originated in the '70s and is still extremely popular throughout the world today.
What is Rap/Hip-Hop.
200
His death was probably the most famous lynching in American history.
Who is Emmett Till?
200
He wrote "A Poem for Black Hearts," "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note," "SOS," and "I don't love you."
Who is Amiri Baraka?
200
He was the only white person Bigger Thomas was ever able to connect with in Wright's Native Son.
Who is Max?
300
Within a year of moving here he had renounced his American Citizenship.
What is Ghana?
300
Ralph Ellison called it "an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness..."
What is the blues?
300
Stokeley Carmichael headed this 1960s activist organization.
What is the SNCC?
300
One characteristic of her poetry was non-uniform placement of words on the page.
Who is Sonia Sanchez?
300
Wright and his wife moved here in 1945, leaving American racism behind.
Where is Paris, France.
400
He died on the eve of this event.
What is the March on Washington?
400
"With his ebony hands on each ivory key
He made that poor piano moan with melody.
O Blues!" is a passage from this Langston Hughes Poem.
What is The Weary Blues
400
These two men founded the Black Panther Party in 1968.
Who are Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
400
Larry Neal and Etheridge Knight were proponents of establishing this technique, often mentioned in discussion of the Black Arts Movement.
What is a "Black aesthetic?"
400
In 1944, Wright wrote an article in Atlantic Monthly about his feelings on this group, which he was formerly a member of.
What is the Communist Party?
500
He received a Ph.D from this university in 1896.
What is Harvard?
500
Originating from a greeting by a music magazine editor, he liked the nickname "Satchmo" so much, he used it to title an album.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
500
He headed the NAACP during the March on Washington.
Who is Roy Wilkins?
500
According to Larry Neal, he "first used [Black Arts] in a positive sense."
Who is LeRoi Jones?
500
This was Wright's first fictional work, published in 1938.