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?