Donald Trump
Stunt Double
Kit Kat
Jazz is not dead
Skate or Die
100
Who founded the NAACP?
W.E.B Du Bois
100
A well-known novelist and anthropologist from the Harlem Renaissance?
Zora Neale Hurston
100
Name a famous writer and poet from the Harlem Renaissance?
Langston Hughes
100
Did Frederick Douglas believe that white people are led to believe that African Americans are dangerous to society?
True
100
Was Frederick Douglas formerly enslaved?
True
200
Who was the first black man to earn a PHD from Harvard, that also studied black communities?
W.E.B. Dubois
200
Why did Newark, New Jersey, become an important place for migration for black Americans?
An increase in the number of factories resulted in more job opportunities
200
If you were born during World War One, what year could you have been born in?
1914 - 18
200
A major "push factor" for the Great Migration, which helped fuel the Harlem Renaissance, was:
a) New economic opportunities in the South
b) The end of racial discrimination in northern cities
c) Jim Crow laws and racial violence in the South
d) The decline of jazz music
c) Jim Crow laws and racial violence in the South
200
- Which Reconstruction Amendment abolished slavery?
- A) 11th Amendment
- B) 14th Amendment
- C) 13th Amendment
- D) 15th Amendment
C) 13th Amendment
300
What was Marcus Garvey's primary goal for Black people?
a) Integration into white society
b) Pan-Africanism and building a strong, independent Black nation
c) Political revolution in the United States
d) Cultural assimilation with European traditions
B) Pan-Africanism and building a strong, independent Black nation
300
What does it mean to be an abolitionist?
A person who advocates for the end (abolition) of slavery or any similar practice like forced labor, believing it to be a moral wrong and a violation of human rights, often working through political, social, or literary means to make it illegal and obsolete
300
What made the Harlem Renaissance important for African American history?
A literary, artistic, musical, and cultural movement
300
NBA young Boy or Lil Durk
Lil Durkistan
300
Air Heads or Hershey Kiss?
400
What are the three monotheistic religions?
Christianity - Islam - Judaism
400
Finish the lyric: "I'm messed up homie, you messed up ............."
but if God got us then we gonna be alright!!
400
Which Borough is Harlem a part of?
Northern Manhattan
400
What was the Great Migration?
Many African Americans migrated South to the North to escape dehumanizing treatment and seek better job opportunities
400
A Literary magazine editor famous throughout the Harlem Renaissance
Alain Locke
500
Could you explain the theory of double consciousness?
Double consciousness, coined by W.E.B. Du Bois, describes the internal conflict and broken identity experienced by African Americans, seeing themselves through their own eyes and simultaneously through the lens of a racist, dominant white society, leading to a feeling of "two-ness" or "two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings."
500
It was after the end of what period in American history that there was an increase in lynching and racial terror?
Reconstruction
500
What historical figure from the Harlem Renaissance would think this quote ?
"Whites and African Americans are both susceptible to the belief that African Americans are inferior."
W.E.B. Dubois
500
What was the contradiction that African American soldiers felt while fighting in World War I?
Fighting to save democracy in Europe while being denied full democracy in America
500
Who became one of America's first black female entrepreneur millionaires by developing and marketing a successful line of hair care products for Black women?
Madam CJ Walker