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Who wrote these lyrics: "Brother, brother brother, there's far too many of you dying"?
Marvin Gaye
What US Supreme Court decision declared school segregation unconstitutional?
Brown versus Board of Education
Who is the author of Tar Baby?
Toni Morrison
What organization was founded by Marion Right Edelman?
The "Children's Defense Fund"
Patented in 1834, his invention of the Seed-Planter allowed farmers to plant more corn using less labor in a smaller amount of time
Henry Blair
Thomas A Dorsey has been called the father of gospel music. What is his best known song?
Precious Lord Take My Hand
Give us the name of the Civil Rights activist and author and the year they wrote "Women Culture and Politics"
Angela Davis in 1990
Who co-wrote Malcolm X's autobiography?
Alex Haley
In 1983 Charles Rangell of New York became the first black deputy whip in the House of Representatives. What does the house whip do?
The whip enforces party discipline.
At 18 years old, Albert Bharucha-Reid published a paper on mathematical biology and in later years, was appointed Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at this university.
Wayne State University
Barry Gordy sold Motown Records, the company he had started with an $800.00 loan, to MCA for how much money?
$60 Million
Name the distinguished 20th century statesman who became Under Secretary General of the UN in 1968.
Ralph Bunche
Leroy Eldridge Cleaver was the author of what autobiography?
Soul on Ice
What mayor of Washington DC was the first national chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?
Marion Barry
Unbeknownst to him, this mathematician whose research in fissionable nuclear materials for the Manhattan Project, would be used in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Ernest Wilkins, Jr.
This popular singer was featured on the Motown label's first gold record in 1960. He later became vice president of the company under Berry Gordy, Jr. What was his name?
Smoky Robinson
Which amendment to the US Constitution granted black American citizenship and equal protection under the law?
The 14th amendment passed July 28, 1868
This one-woman show called "Fires in the Mirror" which won the Obie and Drama Desk awards in 1992 was written by this black woman?
Anna DeVeare Smith
What is the name of the first African-American to lecture on a regular basis against slavery in the 19th century?
Charles Lenox Remond
This physicist and inventor holds over 250 foreign and US patents for the production and design of microphones and techniques for creating polymer foil electrets.
James West
Name the entertainment mogul who's "Black Requiem" was performed by the Houston Symphony with Ray Charles as soloist along with an 80 voice choir.
Quincy Jones
After earning a PhD in physics from MIT, Ronald McNair became an astronaut. What was his assignment on the ill-fated 1986 Challenger mission?
Laser physicist
Jupiter Hammond wrote the first poem ever published by an African-American in 1760. What was it's title?
"An Evening Thought, Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries"
What was the name of the first black recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor? He received the medal for bravery in battle during the Civil War.
William H. Kearney
Dorothy Vaughan, a NASA human computer supervisor during the 1960's, prepared for the introduction of machine computers by teaching herself and staff this computer programming language.
FORTRAN