Arts
Who wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God?
Zora Neale Hurston
Who became the first African American billionaire in 2001?
Robert "Bob" Johnson
What television program has received over 25 Emmy awards and has been the highest rated talk show in television history.
The Oprah Winfrey Show
What was the name of the network of hiding places which helped slaves to escape to freedom?
The Underground Railroad
Kunte Kinte was one of the characters in what Alex Haley book?
Roots
Who founded Black Enterprise in 1970?
Earl G. Graves, Sr.
In 2001, for what film did Denzel Washington become the 2nd African American man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor?
Denzel Washington
What did William L. Still organize in 1880 for Black Youth?
YMCA
Who is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Waiting to exhale?
Terry McMillan
What is the name of the Institute that was founded by Booker T. Washington?
Tuskegee Institute
Queen Latifah
What term is used to describe the second leg of the triangular slave trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas between 1520 and 1860?
The "Middle Passage"
Ernest J. Gaines is a short story writer who wrote a 1971 historical novel turned television movie whose main character was a 110-year-old woman who narrated her personal life. What is the name of this book?
The Autobiography of Miss. Jane Pittman
The North Star was a weekly newspaper founded by which abolitionist in 1847?
Frederick Douglass
The birthplace of Billie holiday, Pennsylvania Avenue became the center of black life through the 1930s in what city?
Baltimore
Enacted in 1865 and 1866 and restricting freed slaves from renting or purchasing property, what laws limited the movement of freed slaves?
Black Codes
What famous black author said, "Black writers do more than merely exhibit rage- they must analyze the roots of racial oppression.
James Baldwin
Originally named Ohio African University, Wilberforce University in Ohio was founded 1843 by members of what church?
The Methodist Episcopal church
Eartha Kitt played what role in the Batman Series?
Cat Woman
Who is known as the "The Father of Negro History" documenting African-American achievements and founded black history week- now a month?
Carter G. Woodson