Art
Scott Joplin played his ragtime music on what instrument?
Piano
What company has has a successful series of television commercials that started in 1974 and features Bill Cosby?
Jell-O
What is the surname of singers LaToya, Janet, and Michael?
Jackson
Who founded the organization of Afro-American Unity?
Malcolm X
August Jackson created what well-known desert?
Ice Cream
Joshua Johnson mad his living in the early 1800s with what profession?
Portrait Painter
Who was the founder and president of the first Black American national labor union in 1869?
Isaac Myers
What famous singer played guitar for Little Richard before starting his solo career?
Jimi Hendrix
What was Malcolm X's given name?
Malcolm Little
Who invented the pencil sharpener?
J.L. Love
What actor appeared in the play "Emperor Jones" in 1925?
Paul Robeson
What 1915 natural disaster ruined crops and homes of many farmers in the Mississippi Valley region?
Flooding
Quincy Jones wrote a full length score for what Hollywood movie?
In Cold Blood
In 1831, the world Anti-Slavery Convention opened in what city?
London
What household item was invented by Sarah Boone?
Ironing board
Where was Ralph Ellison, the famous Black American novelist born?
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
What periodical was the first black newspaper published in the United States?
Freedom's Journal
Keenan Ivory Wayans is the producer of what TV comedy?
In Living Color
What black leader promoted a nationalist movement similar in concept to Paul Cuffe's?
Marcus Garvey
Who invented the lawn mower?
J.A. Burr
In 1905 the first black symphony was founded. What was it called?
Philadelphia Concert Orchestra
The North Star was a weekly newspaper founded by which abolitionist in 1847?
Frederick Douglas
What Black American female comic was known as "Moms"?
Jackie Mabley
What famous march helped influence the Voting Rights Acts passed in August 1965?
March on Selma
Matthew Henson learned the language and skills of what Indian tribe?
Inuit