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100

What type of music with an emphasis on improvisation began in New Orleans around the 1900s?

Jazz


100

How many historically black colleges and universities are there today in the United Sates?

About 105

100

For what team did Jackie Robinson play in 1947?

The Brooklyn Dodgers


100
In what year was Slavery Abolished in the United States?


Bonus 200 Points - What year was Slavery fully abolished in Vermont? 

1865


2022, Slavery was fully abolished in the Vermont Constitution after passing an amendment to the language

100

August Jackson created what well-known desert?

Ice Cream


200

Who directed an award-winning documentary about the government's response to Hurricane Katrina and ways in which the storm's aftermath affected African-Americans?

Spike Lee


200

In what year did the U.S. Supreme Court order school integration?

1955

Brown Vs. Board of Education


200

What famous singer played guitar for Little Richard before starting his solo career?

Jimi Hendrix


200

This amendment to the U.S. Constitution declared "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... shall exist within the United States". After initially being rejected by the House of Representatives, this amendment passed and was ratified in 1865, outlawing slavery. This amendment was

The Thirteenth Amendment

200

Who discovered over 300 uses for the peanut?

George Washington Carver


300

Who is the controversial poet and author of My House is Divided into Two Sections who emerged from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and became a professor of English?

Nikki Giovanni


300

Who became the first African American female billionaire in 2004?

Oprah 


300

The Harlem Globetrotters got their start in what city?

Chicago


300

What was the first war in which blacks served in every branch of the U.S. armed forces?

World War 2


300

What measuring instrument was invented by Frederick Jones?

The Thermostat


400

Zora Neal Hurston became a leading figure in the Black cultural movement known as what?

Harlem Renaissance


400

In 1923, what common roadway feature that we use commonly today was invented by  Garrett Morgan? 

The Three-Light Traffic Signal

With only an elementary school education, Black inventor (and son of an enslaved parent), Garrett Morgan came up with several significant inventions, including an improved sewing machine and the gas mask. However, one of Morgan's most influential inventions was the improved traffic light. Morgan's was one of the first three-light systems that were invented in the 1920s, resulting in widespread adoption of the traffic lights we take for granted today.

400

This trumpet player was also a vocalist and was the first to use a technique known as scat singing. What was his name?

Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong



400

Who served as a nurse, scout and spy for the Union Army? H

Harriet Tubman


400

G.T. Sampson invented what popular home appliance in 1892?

The Clothes Dryer

500

Of what profession were Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Countee Cullen, major contributors to the Harlem Renaissance?

Writers

(Below: Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston)

500

W.E.B. Du Bois was the first Black American to receive a Ph.D. from what prestigious university?

Harvard University 

500

What rapper created a STEM center and co-working space for under privileged youth? 

Nipsey Hussle.  Nipsey actually built a computer on his own at the age of 12; this very computer would be where he began to focus on his own music.


500

Who is often called “The father of the Civil Rights Movement”?

Frederick Douglas

A former slave, Author, Abolitionist, Statesman, and Public Speaker. 


500

A. Miles patented what mechanical device used in many office buildings and skyscrapers?

Elevator