Performing Arts
All That Jazz!
Important Events
Follow the Leader
Literature
100
An African American musical consisted with music and lyrics by Nobel Sissle and Eubie Blake.
What is Shuffle Along the musical?
100
An African-American pianist, band leader, arranger, and composer. Important to the Big Band Jazz and Swing music.
Who is Fletcher Henderson?
100
Relocated 6 million African Americans out of the Rural South of the United States to the Urban Northeast, Midwest, and West.
What is the Great Migration?
100
An African American who was a member of the socialist party of American and was also a writer and editor.
Who is Chandler Owen?
100
Poet; Later elected president for the NAACP during the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Countee Cullen ?
200
Famous African-American team of dancers. Known for their flash dancing and level of artistry. Considered the most important tap dancers of their time.
Who are the Nicholas Brothers?
200
An American Jazz singer, songwriter, and actress. Nicknamed "Lady Day".
Who is Billie Holiday?
200
Implied a more outspoken advocacy of dignity and a refusal to submit quietly to the practices and laws of Jim Crow Racial Segregation.
What is the Idea of a New Negro?
200
African American Activist and co-founder of the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
200
Contributed to African American art and letters. Included in the Norton Anthology of Literature by Women.
Who is Anne Spencer?
300
Known as the "Queen of Happiness". An African-American Cabaret Singer, dancer, and comedian.
Who is Florence Mills?
300
A Jazz singer and band leader. Strongly associated with the Cotton Club; where he was a regular performer.
Who is Cab Calloway?
300
A federally chartered private co-educational nonsectarian historically black university. Founded in the year 1867.
What is the Howard University?
300
Organized the first predominantly black labor union, The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
Who is A. Philip Randolph?
300
First working as a nurse and a librarian. Author of "Quicks" and "Passing"
Who is Nella Larsen ?
400
French dancer known as the "Black Pearl", "Bronze Venus" and the "Creole Goddess"
Who is Josephine Baker?
400
Nicknamed "Satshmo" and "Pops" an influential figure in Jazz music.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
400
A non bias civil rights organization based in New York City that was against racial discrimination in the United States.
What is the Urban League?
400
Founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, (UNIA-ACL)
Who is Marcus Garvey ?
400
Active participant in the Literary Society. Author of the book, Cane, published in the year 1923.
Who is Jean Toomer?
500
Nicknamed "Empress of the Blues."
Who is Bessie Smith?
500
This famous Jazz performer gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club.
Who is Duke Ellington?
500
Co-founders of this movement were Ida B. Wells and W.E.B DuBois. Created in the year 1909.
What is NAACP?
500
Presidential adviser, orator, author and educator. Known for his vocational lessons.
Who is Booker T. Washington ?
500
Known for his novel The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life published in 1929.
Who is Wallace Thurman ?
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