Arts & Literature
“Go Down, Moses” and “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” are known as what type of songs?
Spirituals
Who is called the “queen of hip-hop soul?”
Mary J. Blige
The historic “March on Washington” occurred in what year?
1963
In 1910 about fifty percent of black labor force was employed in what industry?
Agriculture
George Washington Carver made paint and ink from what common food item?
Peanuts
What was the name of the newspaper started by Malcolm X?
Muhammad Speaks
For what team did Jackie Robinson play in 1947?
The Brooklyn Dodgers
How many slaves were “freed” at the end of the Civil War?
4 million
In 1908, what was the first black sorority founded at Howard University?
Alpha Kappa Alpha
Paul Williams served as co-architect of what major international airport?
Los Angeles
In 1993, she became the first black to be honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature for six novels. She is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved which became a motion picture and in 1993 for Jazz. Name her.
Toni Morrison
Satchel Paige played for 22 years in what baseball league?
Negro League
Enacted in 1865 and 1866 and restricting the formerly enslaved from renting or purchasing property, what laws limited the movement of black people?
Black Codes
Raising $150,000 over seven years, this choir from Nashville traveled around the world singing spirituals and work songs to raise money for their college. What was the name of the choir?
the Fisk Jubilee Singers (from Fisk University)
Apollo 16 used an ultraviolet camera designed by what African American?
George E. Carruthers
Hattie McDaniel was the first black performer to receive an Academy Award. She won for Best Supporting Actress for what 1939 film?
Gone With the Wind
Born in 1968, who directed such films as Boyz N the Hood, Poetic Justice, Higher Learning, Baby Boy, and 2 Fast 2 Furious?
John Singleton
What famous narrative was written by Solomon Northrup, a fugitive slave?
My Bondage & My Freedom
Who performed the world’s first open heart surgery?
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Which of the following inventions was patented by an African American?
Jet propulsion balloon
What Black American took jazz vocals to a new level and was called “The Divine One” because of her range and effortless mastery of the intricacies of music?
Sarah Vaughan
In 1991 there were eight inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame including a husband and wife duo who sang “Proud Mary” in 1969. Who are they?
Ike and Tina Turner
Who became the first Black American awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1940?
Alain Locke
Who is known as the “Father of Negro History” documenting African American stories and achievements through use of innovative research approaches including legal records, diaries and oral histories – methods that have since been widely adopted by historians?
Carter G. Woodson
What African American scientist recently discovered new information on how genes are linked together?
Percy Julian