Entertainers
This actor is the voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars and Mufasa in The Lion King.
A. Sidney Poitier
B. Morgan Freeman
C. James Earl Jones
D. Denzel Washington
Who is James Earl Jones?
This author wrote Beloved and Song of Solomon.
A. Alice Walker
B. Toni Morrison
C. Zora Neale Hurston
D. Maya Angelou
Who is Toni Morrison?
This Nigerian author wrote Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah.
A. Buchi Emecheta
B. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
C. Tsitsi Dangarembga
D. Wole Soyinka
Who is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie?
This poet wrote And Still I Rise and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
A. Gwendolyn Brooks
B. Nikki Giovanni
C. Maya Angelou
D. Sonia Sanchez
Who is Maya Angelou?
First African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
A. Maya Angelou
B. Alice Walker
C. Toni Morrison
D. Zora Neale Hurston
Who is Toni Morrison?
Known as the “Queen of Gospel,” she sang at the March on Washington in 1963.
A. Aretha Franklin
B. Mahalia Jackson
C. Nina Simone
D. Ella Fitzgerald
Who is Mahalia Jackson?
A key Harlem Renaissance figure who wrote The Negro Speaks of Rivers.
A. Langston Hughes
B. Claude McKay
C. Countee Cullen
D. James Baldwin
Who is Langston Hughes?
The first president of Guinea who rejected French colonial control in 1958.
A. Patrice Lumumba
B. Kwame Nkrumah
C. Sékou Touré
D. Julius Nyerere
Who is Sékou Touré?
Founder of the Black Arts Movement and author of Dutchman
A. James Baldwin
B. Amiri Baraka
C. Langston Hughes
D. August Wilson
Who is Amiri Baraka?
The wealthiest person in history and former ruler of the Mali Empire
A. Shaka Zulu
B. Mansa Musa
C. Haile Selassie
D. Sundiata Keita
Who is Mansa Musa?
Host of Finding Your Roots and author of The Signifying Monkey.
A. Cornel West
B. Henry Louis Gates Jr.
C. Ta-Nehisi Coates
D. Michael Eric Dyson
Who is Henry Louis Gates Jr.?
This novelist explored race and sexuality in Notes of a Native Son.
A. Richard Wright
B. Ralph Ellison
C. James Baldwin
D. Amiri Baraka
Who is James Baldwin?
A cultural theorist who helped found cultural studies in the UK.
A. Kwame Appiah
B. Henry Louis Gates Jr.
C. Stuart Hall
D. Paul Gilroy
Who is Stuart Hall?
This scholar wrote Black Feminist Thought.
A. Bell hooks
B. Kimberlé Crenshaw
C. Patricia Hill Collins
D. Audre Lorde
Who is Patricia Hill Collins?
First African Nobel Peace Prize winner for nonviolent resistance to apartheid.
A. Nelson Mandela
B. Desmond Tutu
C. Chief Albert Luthuli
D. Thabo Mbeki
Who is Chief Albert Luthuli?
Mahalia Jackson used her music to support which major movement?
A. Women’s Suffrage
B. Anti-Apartheid Movement
C. Civil Rights Movement
D. Black Arts Movement
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This author wrote Native Son and Black Boy.
A. Ralph Ellison
B. Richard Wright
C. Langston Hughes
D. August Wilson
Who is Richard Wright?
This Senegalese scholar challenged Western narratives of African history.
A. Walter Rodney
B. Cheikh Anta Diop
C. Frantz Fanon
D. Chinua Achebe
Who is Cheikh Anta Diop?
This philosopher wrote Cosmopolitanism and explores global citizenship.
A. Henry Louis Gates Jr.
B. Frantz Fanon
C. Kwame Anthony Appiah
D. Stuart Hall
Who is Kwame Anthony Appiah?
This novel explores invisibility and identity in a segregated America.
A. Native Son
B. Beloved
C. Invisible Man
D. The Color Purple
What is Invisible Man? by Ralph Ellison
This playwright created the ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle.
A. August Wilson
B. Lorraine Hansberry
C. James Baldwin
D. Amiri Baraka
Who is August Wilson?
She wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God and was also an anthropologist.
A. Toni Cade Bambara
B. Zora Neale Hurston
C. Alice Walker
D. Toni Morrison
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
Founder of the Mouride Brotherhood who peacefully resisted French colonialism
A. Ahmadou Bamba
B. Leopold Senghor
C. Cheikh Anta Diop
D. Samori Touré
Who is Ahmadou Bamba?
A psychiatrist who wrote Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth.
A. Aimé Césaire
B. Frantz Fanon
C. Stuart Hall
D. Cheikh Anta Diop
Who is Frantz Fanon?
This movement connected art, politics, and Black liberation in the 1960s.
A. Harlem Renaissance
B. Negritude
C. Black Arts Movement
D. Civil Rights Movement
What is the Black Arts Movement?