Black History
What was Jim Crow?
An influential and charismatic preacher who established a headquarters in Harlem in 1933
Who was Father Divine?
The years the baby boomer generation was born
What is 1945 - 1965?
A classic 1937 novel written by Zora Neale Hurston that was made into a 2005 movie starring Halle Berry
What is Their Eyes Were Watching God?
Arthur Mitchel and Karel Shook founded this dance company after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What is the Dance Theatre of Harlem?
This event brought many African Americans to the North from the South between 1910 and 1970
What was the Great Migration?
A famous African American hotel known as the Waldorf of Harlem
What was Hotel Theresa?
The generation born between 1965 - 1980
What is Gen X?
First African American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993
Who was Toni Morrison?
Famous comedians like Moms Mabley, Redd Foxx, and Peg Leg Bates appeared at this world-famous theatre on 125th St.
What is the Apollo?
The first African American woman candidate for president
Who was Shirley Chisholm?
This event was set off by the arrest of a Black woman by a White police officer in 1943
What were the Harlem Riots of 1943?
The generation shaped by digital communication
What are millennials?
Born in Pittsburgh, Penn, this African American playwright is known as the theatre's poet of Black America
Who was August Wilson?
A Billy Strayhorn composition, made famous by Duke Ellington, directed listeners to do this for the quickest way to Harlem
What is Take the A Train?
The man responsible for starting Black History Week.
Who was Carter G. Woodson?
A Harlem nightclub located on 7th Ave and 134th St. opened in 1925
What was Smalls Paradise?
They were children of the Great Depression and World War II, also known as the Traditionalist Generation
Who was the Silent Generation?
Written when its author was still a US senator from Massachuset, this 1956 book won a Pulitzer prize
What is Profiles in Courage?
Dubbed "The First Lady of Song," this jazz singer became famous after winning Amateur Night at the Apollo in 1934
Who was Ella Fitzgerald?
The first African Americans to be trained as pilots in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
A popular neighborhood for African Americans to live in during the Harlem Renaissance
What was Sugar Hill?
The 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 - 1933
Who was Herbert Hoover?
Born and raised in Harlem, this prolific author's debate with William Buckley galvanized the civil rights movement
What was James Baldwin?
This tap-dancing duo appeared with Cab Calloway in the 1943 movie Story Weather
Who were the Nicholas Brothers?