Arts and Literature
Claude McKay and James Weldon Johnson were writers of the Harlem Renaissance period. Which one of them was born in Jamaica?
Claude McKay
Q: In 1904 the Daytona Normal and Industrial School in Daytona Beach, Florida was founded by whom?
Mary McLeod Bethune
What term is used to describe the second leg of the triangular slave trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas?
The Middle Passage
In his speech at the Democratic Convention in 1984, Rev. Jesse Jackson’s dramatic call was to do what?
Keep Hope Alive
Governor John Hancock presented a silk flag to this fighting group for its heroic efforts against the British during the American Revolutionary War.
The Bucks of America
What city known for jazz music had a great influence on Mahalia Jackson?
New Orleans
Name 2 of the 4 colleges that make up the Atlanta University Center, the largest contiguous consortium of African-Americans in higher education in the United States.
Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College, Morehouse College, and Morehouse School of Medicine
The historic “March on Washington” occurred in what year?
1963
In May 1954, the United States Supreme Court issued a monumental decision in what famous case?
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
What’s the name of the 13-year-old girl who worked as part of the five-women team making the flag that later inspired the writing of the National Anthem?
Grace Wisher
What medium did Gordon Parks use to describe Black Americans deprivation and racial discrimination?
Photography
Established in 1881, what college holds the distinction of being America's oldest historically black college for women?
Spelman
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
Condoleezza Rice was appointed by President George W. Bush as the first black female Secretary of State in what year?
2005
By posing as a runaway slave, this spy and military leader, was able to get valuable information from the British, which helped George Washington win the Battle of Yorktown resulting in the end of the Revolutionary War.
James Armistead
What was the name of the newspaper started by Malcolm X?
Muhammad Speaks
Who was the first Black American woman bank president?
Maggie Lena Walker
How many Southern states seceded from the Union to form the Confederate States of America in 1861?
11
P.B.S. Pinchback became the first black governor in U.S. history, lieutenant governor and served in the U.S. Senate. What state did he represent?
He was shot and killed by the British during the Boston Massacre. That makes him the very first person to die for the creation of the United States of America.
Crispus Attucks
Published in 1982, Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple became a monumental bestseller and won what coveted awards?
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award
What US federal government agency founded over 1,000 schools, including Howard University?
The Freedmen’s Bureau
During the transatlantic slave trade, the largest numbers of Africans were imported to what country?
Brazil
Black feminist Angela Davis appeared on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List in what year?
1970
This Revolutionary War hero is best remembered for his actions during the battle of Bunker Hill, on Jun 17, 1775. In 1975 a postage stamp was minted in his honor.
Salem Poor