The Arts
Which 1975 Broadway production won seven Tony awards, including Best Musical? It featured songs such as Slide Some Oil to Me
The Wiz
The book Between the World and Me is written by which author?
Ta-Nehishi Coates
Who provided the orbital entry and launch window calculations that enabled John Glenn's orbit around the moon as well as calculations that coordinated the Apollo moon landing? Her story was depicted in the movie Hidden Figures and in 2015, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Katherine Johnson
What was accomplished by the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment?
The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery.
Where is Howard University located?
Washington D.C.
Who wrote the play A Raisin in the Sun?
Lorraine Hansberry
This author of 11 novels won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She is the author of works such as Beloved, and The Bluest Eye.
Toni Morrison
Who was a free African American almanac author, surveyor, land owner and farmer?
Which Black officer did President Georgia Bush appoint to the nation's highest military job, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
Colin Powell
Grambling State College is located in what state?
Grambling, Louisiana
What is the name of the dance company know for classic pieces such as Revelations and The River
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
This 1963 non-fiction book by James Baldwin contained two essays, one in which was titled "My Dungeon Shook: A Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation."
The Fire Next Time
Jesse Ernest Wilkins was a world-class American mathematician, mechanical engineer and nuclear scientist. He attended the University of Chicago and became its youngest ever student. At what age did he attend the University of Chicago?
13
What year was the Voting Rights Act (prohibiting racial discrimination in voting) passed?
1965
What does the acronym UNCF stand for?
United Negro College Fund
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom was written by which African American playwright?
August Wilson
The book Up From Slavery is the autobiographical account of whose life?
Booker T. Washington
Name the doctor who discovered an efficient method to use and preserve blood plasma that helped save lives during World War II and later became the model used in blood banks.
Dr. Charles Drew
Who signed the 1964 Civi Rights Act?
President Lyndon Baines Johnson
The first black school of nursing was founded at what famous southern college?
Spelman College
What is the name of the artist who painted the presidential portrait of President Barak Obama?
Kehinde Wiley
What was Maya Angelou's name at birth?
Marguerite Annie Johnson
Who was NASA's first female African American engineer? She was one of the women whose story was depicted in the Hidden Figures movie and at NASA she worked on research related to the Supersonic Pressure Tunnel.
Mary Jackson
Which US President signed the bill that made Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a national holiday?
Ronald Reagan
What is the name of the first all-Black medical school?
Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee