He was considered the "godfather" of the Chicago Renaissance.
Who is Arna Bontemps?
100
He was considered to be the father of the Harlem Renaissance movement.
Who is Alain Locke?
100
He was the best known leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters?
Who is A. Phillip Randolph?
100
She was one of the most respected figures of FDR's "Black Cabinet."
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
100
He was the plaintiff in the court case that established "separate but equal" as the law of the land.
Who is Homer Plessy?
200
This popular radio show, and later television show, depicted very stereotypical images of African Americans.
What is The Amos 'n' Andy Show?
200
Of the prominent members of the Harlem Renaissance, she was the only one born in the South.
Who was Zora Neale Hurston?
200
FDR signed this executive order in 1941, establishing the Fair Employment Practices Commission.
What is Executive Order 8802?
200
This is the year that A. Phillip Randolph threatened to lead a demonstration in Washington, DC, to force FDR to address rampant employment discrimination in war industries.
What is 1941?
200
During his career, he directed over 40 films about African American life in order to combat the negative stereotypes of blacks in mainstream Hollywood films.
Who is Oscar Micheaux?
300
He was the author of _Black Boy_, considered to be a breakthrough novel on the African American experience.
Who is Richard Wright?
300
She worked as the editor of _The Crisis_ magazine but was also the author of the novel _Plum Bun_ that explored the experience of a black woman "passing" for white.
Who is Jessie Fauset?
300
This African American was awarded the Medal of Honor for his brave actions at Pearl Harbor.
Who is Dorie Miller?
300
This government study misled nearly 600 black men into believing they were being treated for "bad blood" when in reality they were be ravaged by syphilis.
What is the Tuskegee Study?
300
He is the author of the famous poem "We Were the Mask."
Who is Paul Lawrence Dunbar?
400
Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, and Arna Bontemps were members of this group.
What is the Southside Writers' Group?
400
The grandson of P. B. S. Pinchback, he was the author of one of the most important works to come out of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Jean Toomer?
400
With this executive order, President Harry Truman effectively desegregated the U. S. Armed Forces.
What is Executive Order 9981?
400
He served as a member of FDR's "Black Cabinet" but went on to become the first African American to serve as a federal judge.
Who is William H. Hastie?
400
This blockbuster film, directed by D. W. Griffin, perpetuated negative images of African Americans while glorifying the Ku Klux Klan.
What is _The Birth of a Nation_?
500
He became the first African American elected to the U. S. Congress from a northern state.
Who is Oscar DePriest?
500
His work, _The Blacker the Berry_, explored the "pigmentocracy" within the black community.
Who is Wallace Thurman?
500
This date marked America's entry into World War II.
What is December 7, 1941?
500
Name three of the "alphabet soup" agencies created during FDR's administrations.
What is the AAA, CCC, FEPC, NYA, SSA, etc.?
500
This was the motto of African Americans as the United States entered the Second World War.