Arts and Literature
This person published "The Souls of Black Folks" in 1930.
W.E.B Du Bois
Who is called the “queen of hip-hop soul?”
Mary J. Blige
What Black American triggered the “Montgomery Bus Boycott”?
Rosa Parks
What is the name of the institute that was founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881?
Tuskegee Institute
Paul Williams served as co-architect of what major international airport?
Los Angeles
What city known for jazz music had great influence on Mahalia Jackson?
Earvin “Magic” Johnson played for what college basketball team?
Michigan State Spartans
What law prohibited slavery north and west of the 36-30 parallel within the Louisiana Territory?
Missouri Compromise
Where did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., earn his doctorate?
Boston University
Who invented the pencil sharpener?
L.J. Love
What term refers generally to the artistic and socio-cultural awakening among black people in the 1920s and early 1930s?
Harlem Renaissance
The film Glory was based on America’s first unit of black soldiers in the Civil War. Who won the award for Best Supporting Actor of this 1989 historical film?
Denzel Washington
In 1949, what religious movement did Malcolm X join?
Nation of Islam
In 1908, what was the first black sorority founded at Howard University?
Alpha Kappa Alpha
What system did Robert Shurney develop specifically for use aboard a Skylab space mission?
Waste Management System
Popularized by the 1923 musical Runnin’ Wild , what 1920s dance is believed to have started in a coastal city of South Carolina?
The Charleston
Originally dubbed Tamla Records in 1959, what highly successful record company did Berry Gordy, Jr. incorporate in 1960?
Motown Records
The historic “March on Washington” occurred in what year?
1963
In 1910 about fifty percent of black labor force was employed in what industry?
Agriculture
The ironing board was invented by what African American woman?
Sarah Boone
Hattie McDaniel was the first black performer to receive an Academy Award. She won for Best Supporting Actress for what 1939 film?
Gone With the Wind
In 1991 there were eight inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame including a husband and wife duo who sang “Proud Mary” in 1969. Who are they?
Ike and Tina Turner
What term referred to the large Black population in the Southern cotton growing states?
Black Belt
Rush Medical College in this city was the first to graduate a Black American student in 1847. Name the city
Chicago
Who performed the world's first open-heart surgery?
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams