Miscellaneous
Poetry Lines
Leaders
Poetry Lines
Authors
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Who wrote a Dream Deferred?
Langston Hughes
100
I said, Naturally, You pass the buck
Madam and The Rent Man
100
What Kenya President led his East African nation to freed from British colonialism?
What is Jomo Kenyatta
100
And mouth with myriad subtleties
We Wear The Mask
100
Which author received a special Pulitzer prize for his novel “Roots?”
What is Roots
200
What is the name of the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary that opened in 1881 and later changed its name to this?
What is Spelman
200
Why should the world be overwise, In counting all our tears and sighs
We Wear The Mask
200
What is the full name of Howard University’s first African-American president?
What is Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
200
You may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies,
Still I rise- Maya Angelou
200
Who was the first African- American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Toni Morrison
300
What is the theme for The Negro Mother?
Be strong. Don't give up. Work hard. Keep the dream alive.
300
You may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies
Still I Rise-Maya Angelou
300
In 1950, what poetess became the first African- American to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry?
What is Gwendolyn Brooks
300
I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees. Then they swarm around me, A hive of honey bees.
Phenomenal Woman-Maya Angelou
300
Born in 1872, what son of ex-slaves was the first African-American to gain national eminence as a poet?
What is Paul Lawrence Dunbar
400
What is the theme of Cross?
Confusion about being bi-racial. Mixed children inner thoughts. Regret for mistreatment of parents
400
But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong
I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes
400
Who was the first African American president of the United States of America?
What is President Barack Obama
400
I don't pay no REVERSED CHARGES nohow
Madam and the Phone Bill
400
What is the name of the author of the novel, The Color Purple, that was later adapted into a movie directed by Steven Spielberg?
What is Alice Walker
500
What theological seminary in 1867 changed its name and became the first Black school to establish undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools?
Morehouse
500
I said, Naturally, You pass the buck
Madam and The Rent Man
500
What Kenya President led his East African nation to freed from British colonialism?
What is Jomo Kenyatta
500
I wonder were I'm going to die
Cross- Langston Hughes
500
What author received the National Book Award in 1952 for his book entitled Invisible Man?
What is Ralph Ellison