Historical Authors
This human rights activist is known for having a huge impact on the civil rights movement, including writing one of the most famous speeches in history.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This advertising art director and cartoonist was one of the earliest mainstream comic strips to star an African American in the lead role.
Who is Ted Shearer?
Who was the premier author of the historical romance novel Night Song?
Who is Sandra Kitt?
What book is George M. Johnson best known for writing?
All Boys Aren't Blue
What poem and autobiography writer wrote I know why the caged bird sings?
Who is Maya Angelou?
This writer was heavily criticized for failing to challenge Jim Crow segregation and encouraging Black people of the time to accept the status quo.
Who is Booker T. Washington
This comics artist is known for his work on the Marvel Comics series Luke Cage, Hero for Hire and the Jungle Action feature Black Panther.
Who is Billy Graham?
Who in February 2019 was ranked on The New York Times Best Seller list for paperback trade fiction novel The Proposal?
Who is Jasmine Guillory?
Where was Wanda Sykes first recognized at for her work?
On The Chris Rock Show.
What novelist author wrote the fictional tale Beloved/The Bluest eye detailing the trauma of a former slave?
Who is Toni Morrison?
This African American writer wrote multiple autobiographies after his escape from slavery in 1838, for example, 1855's "My Bondage and My Freedom."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This actor, screenwriter, director and comic book writer is best known for his role as Raze in the Underworld film series, which he co-created, as well as his voicework in the cartoon Young Justice as the villain Black Beetle.
Who is Kevin Grevioux?
Who was the first African-American romance author to appear on the New York Times and USA Today’s bestseller’s lists for series romances, and has earned honors that include a nomination for the NAACP Image Award, a RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award and an RT Magazine Pioneer Award in Writing?
Who is Brenda Jackson?
What were the names of the two magazines Charlene Cothran wrote?
Venus and The Defunct Kitchen Table News.
Who’s greatest work in novelism is widely acclaimed to be The Fire Next Time due to its small but powerful nature?
Who is James Baldwin?
She was the first African American to publish a book of poems, sadly she did not live to see her poems make a consequential impact on slavery.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
This cartoonist is often credited as the person who first introduced the visual approach and concepts of Japanese manga into English-language cartooning.
Who is Vernon Grant?
Who wrote the widely acclaimed romance novel Loyal League Series?
Who is Alyssa Cole?
Who is noted for penning the first book series to feature black gay romance?
Who is E. Lynn Harris?
Whose most famous quote is “I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wistful solutions”?
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
A Jamaican immigrant and central figure in the Harlem Renaissance, they are famous for his novel "Home to Harlem," published in 1928, which won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature.
Who is Claude McKay
This cartoonist is known as the first African-American woman cartoonist and creator of the Torchy Brown comic strip and the Patty-Jo 'n' Ginger panel.
Who is Jackie Ormes?
What is Beverly Jenkins best selling book?
The novel "Bring on the Blessings" published in 2009.
Whose quote is, “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” (published in 1981)?
Who is Audre Lorde?
Whose non-fiction short stories like Black Boy highlighted the blighted life in the south?
Who is Richard Wright?