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In January 1900, James Weldon Johnson wrote the lyrics and his brother John Rosamond Johnson composed the music for this hymn in their hometown of Jacksonville, Florida in celebration of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. The song was eventually adopted as the Black National Anthem.
What is Lift Every Voice and Sing?
100
The first conference of this ideology, organized by Henry Sylvester Williams, a Trinidad attorney, meets in London in July 1900. It is a movement to unify all peoples of African descent to work together in their common struggles.
What is Pan-Africanism?
100
The first black president of the US-- PSYCHE! 2 Easy lol! A nation since the 2nd Century BCE and the only African country European powers failed at attempts to imperialize or colonize it. She defeated Italy twice!
What is Ethiopia?
100
An African-American historian, author, journalist and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. In 1926, Woodson founded "Negro History Week", for the second week in February, to coincide with marking the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. The Father of Black History
Who is Dr. Carter G. Woodson?
100
On March 5, Crispus Attucks, an escaped slave of African and Native American ancestry, becamethe first Colonial resident to die for American independence when he was killed by the British in the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
200
Created by Chicago-based Johnson Publishing Company, published its first issue on November 1, 1945. This magazine has striven always to address African-American issues, personalities, and interests in a positive and self-affirming manner.
What is Ebony Magazine?
200
In the summer of 1919, 76 blacks were reported lynched and 26 race riots took place. These riots took place through out the northern and southern United States.
What is the Red Summer?
200
First known as the Federal Council of Negro Affairs, an informal group of African-American public policy advisors to United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
What is the Black Cabinet?
200
The first school of higher learning owned and operated by African Americans. It was founded in Ohio by the African Methodist Episcopal Church with Bishop Daniel A. Payne as its first president.
What is Wilberforce University?
200
Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges, an Officer of the Royal Guard of King Louis XVI, was an accomplished composer who in 1779 began performing music with Queen Marie-Antoinette.
What is Joseph de Bologne
300
Nicknamed the "Brown Bomber," on June 22, 1938, in a rematch, he knocked Max Schmeling out and captured the admiration of countless Americans. He gained a moral victory for himself and for his country, and simultaneously struck a damaging blow to Hitler and his pretentious beliefs.
Who is Joe Louis?
300
A union of independent African Nations founded in Addis Abba, Ethiopia, on May 23 by Ethiopia, Ghana and Egypt, succeeded today by the African Union.
What is the Organization for African Unity?
300
On September 27, 2005, she was installed as the 27th Governor General of Canada. As Governor General she was appointed by the Queen of England as Canada's titular Head of State.
Who is Michaëlle Jean?
300
In 2001, became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American Express Company.
Who is Kenneth I. Chenault?
300
A mixed-heritage group of people from present-day Mauritania who ruled the Spanish-Portuguese peninsula from 740 to 1492 CE.
Who were the Moors?
400
A Kingdom used brass for much of their art, especially for royal decorations. During the beginning of colonialism, many were taken by the British to the British Museum in London and the rest scattered throughout the world. Unfortunately, most remain scattered out of Africa, symbolic of the scattering of African people. These are known by this name.
What are the Benin Bronzes?
400
Under Toussaint L'Ouverture’s leadership, enslaved and free Africans overthrew the French government and declared Saint Dominque independent and renamed it this. It became the second independent nation in the western hemisphere (after the United States) on January 1, 1804.
What is Haiti?
400
A former slave who in 1760 was appointed a general in the Russian Army and later became the godson of Peter the Great.
Who is Abram Petrovich Hannibal?
400
Located in Fes, Morroco, it is the oldest continuously operating academic degree-granting university in the world.
What is the University of Al-Karaouine (القرويين‎)?
400
Perhaps the wealthiest ruler of his day, this Emperor of the Malian Empire made his monumental pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324.
Who is Mansa Musa?
500
The African presence in Brazil that expressed itself in the religious traditions, languages, sacred narratives, music, song and dance, especially in Bahia in the nineteenth century. This religion is a syncretism of Yoruban traditions and Roman Catholicism.
What is Candomble?
500
At this meeting in 1884-85, European powers met to take claim to different parts of Africa, formalizing the scramble, partition and colonialism of the continent. Everyone wanted a slice of the “African cake.”
What is the Berlin Conference?
500
Reigned as Queen of both Ndongo and Matamba simultaneously and was victorious in a war with Portugal in 1627. She continued to maintain a free country until her peaceful death at 80 years old in 1663.
Who is Nzinga?
500
The high priest of King Djoser in the 27th century BCE, he was a multi-genius and considered the worlds 1st architect, engineer, physician and much more.
Who is Imhotep?
500
Or the Book of the Glory of Kings, is an account written in Ge'ez of the origins of the Solomonic line of the Emperors of Ethiopia. The text, in its existing form, is at least seven hundred years old, and is considered by many Ethiopian Christians and Rastafarians to be an inspired and a reliable account.
What is the Kebra Negast?