African-American Writers
African-American Literature
African-American Women
African-American Artists
African-American Music
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He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry.
Who is Langston Hughes
100
An anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African-American art and literature edited by Alain Locke, who lived in Washington, DC and taught at Howard University.
What is The New Negro
100
Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young and had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing.
Who is Billie Holiday
100
With their highly acrobatic technique ("flash dancing"), high level of artistry and daring innovations, they were considered by many the greatest tap dancers of their day.
Who is Nicholas Brothers
100
An negro spiritual that describes events in the Old Testament of the Bible. A collection of seven related pieces of short fiction by American author William Faulkner.
What is "Go Down, Moses"
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Advocate of the Pan Africanism, an international movement that worked for an independent and united black Africa. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL).
Who is Marcus Garvey
200
The official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and was founded in 1910 by W. E. B. Du Bois (editor)
What is The Crisis
200
The literary editor of the NAACP magazine The Crisis. She also was the editor and co-author for the African-American children's magazine The Brownies' Book.
Who is Jessie Redmon Fauset
200
A jazz singer and bandleader with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City.
Who is Cab Calloway
200
Written by Wallis Willis, a Choctaw freedman in the old Indian Territory. Had lyrics that referred to the Underground Railroad, the freedom movement that helped blacks escape from Southern Slavery to the North and Canada.
What is "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
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One of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. Rose to national prominence as the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks.
Who is W.E.B. De Bois
300
An academic journal published by the National Urban League (NUL). The journal acted as a sociological forum for the emerging topic of African-American studies and was known for fostering the literary culture.
What is Opportunity
300
Nicknamed The Empress of the Blues and the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. She is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era.
Who is Bessie Smith
300
In 1934 she became the first African-American artist to be elected to the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. She then launched the Savage Studio of Arts and Crafts, located in a basement on West 143rd Street in Harlem.
Who is Augusta Savage
300
The song dates back to the era of slavery in the United States when it was common practice to sell children of slaves away from their parents. The song is clearly an expression of pain and despair as it conveys the hopelessness of a child who has been torn from his or her parents.
What is "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child"
400
In 1932, he wrote The Conjure-Man Dies, the first novel with a black detective as well as the first detective novel with only black characters. An active participant in the Harlem Renaissance, primarily as a novelist, but also as a musician.
Who is Rudolph Fisher
400
Written by Zora Neale Hurston in 1937. The novel narrates main character Janie Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny."
What is Their Eyes Were Watching God
400
A folklorist, anthropologist, and author. She is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Wrote the manuscript Every Tongue Got to Confess (2001), a collection of folktales gathered in the 1920s, was published posthumously after being discovered in the Smithsonian archives.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston
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A journalist, teacher, playwright and poet who was one of the first African-American women to have a play publicly performed. Wrote essays, short stories and poems which were published in The Crisis, the newspaper of the NAACP, edited by W.E.B. Du Bois; and Opportunity.
Who is Angelina Weld Grimke
400
An African-American musical revue with music and lyrics by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, and a connecting plot about a mayoral race, written by Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles.
What is Shuffle Along the musical
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He compiled and edited the anthology The Book of American Negro Spirituals, which was published in 1925. He lead the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917. In 1920 he was the first black to be chosen as executive secretary of the organization.
Who is James Weldon Johnson
500
A seminal work in the history of sociology, and a cornerstone of African-American literary history by W. E. B. Du Bois. He drew from his own experiences as an African-American in the American society.
What is The Souls of Black Folk
500
Known as the "Queen of Happiness", was an African-American cabaret singer, dancer, and comedian known for her effervescent stage presence, delicate voice, and winsome, wide-eyed beauty. Became well known as a result of her role in the successful Broadway musical Shuffle Along (1921) at Daly's 63rd Street Theater.
Who is Florence Mills
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The only African-American female painter of the 1930s and 1940s to achieve fame abroad, and the earliest whose subjects extend beyond the realm of portraiture. founded the art department at Palmer Memorial Institute in North Carolina.
Who is Lois Mailou Jones
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Originated in African-American communities of the United States at the late 19th and early 20th century. The genre that includes spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.
What is jazz and blues
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