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Who founded the National Negro Business League
Booker T. Washington
Who published Thirty Years of Lynching, 1889–1918, as part of an antilynching campaign
NAACP
Representative Jeannette Rankin (R-MT) became the first woman elected to what position
Congress
The National Urban League founded in what city?
New York City
In 1926 ,Carter G. Woodson inaugurated later what to which extending to Black History Month
“Negro History Week”
Who published The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois
Carter G. Woodson founded what association?
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History
In 1900–1906 organized boycotts in every Southern state to protest what?
segregated streetcars
In 1936, Jesse Owens defied Nazi racist propaganda by winning four gold medals at the Olympic games in which location?
Berlin
African American choreographer and dancer Katherine Dunham formed her own what type of company?
dance company
Who wrote “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing”
James Weldon Johnson and brother J. Rosamond Johnson
Marcus Garvey established what association in Harlem?
The American branch of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
NAACP published an open letter to President Woodrow Wilson protesting segregation in what agencies
federal agencies
Madame C. J. Walker company was based in what state?
Indiana
What year was the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund formed?
1939
Who established the National Training School for Women in Washington, D.C.
Nannie Helen Burroughs
What formed in New York City in response to the Springfield race riot
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
What was know as the intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater and politics centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City?
Harlem Renaissance
In 1908, a Bloody two-day race riot erupted and destroyed the city’s black section. What city and state was this in?
Springfield, Illinois,
What year was the National Council of Negro Women founded?
1935
Who is the first African American woman Billlionaire, american inventory and entrepreneur for hair care?
Madame C. J. Walker
A. Philip Randolph organized a union, what is the name of the union?
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Union
NAACP led what event of 10,000 black New Yorkers down Fifth Avenue to protest the East St. Louis race riot
Where did African American contralto Marian Anderson sing in a concert before an integrated audience of 75,000?
Lincoln Memorial
In 1937, The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters signed a collective bargaining agreement with the creating the first agreement between a black union and a major American company. What is the name of the company?
Pullman Company