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Black History Month
The Black Narrative
Dickinson Black History
Black History at Dickinson (again)
Black Firsts
100
The "father of Black History."
Who is Dr. Carter G. Woodson?
100
In 1773, she became the first known African-American woman to publish a book.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
100
The faculty adviser for the African American Society.
Who is Paula Lima Jones?
100
The chair of the Africana Studies Department.
Who is Lynn Johnson?
100
The first Black person to sit on the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
200
The year Dr. Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week.
What is 1926?
200
This cultural movement, sometimes referred to as "The New Negro Movement," took place in the 1920s and consisted of the thriving and expansion of Black arts.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
200
The first African American female graduate of Dickinson College.
Who is Esther Popel Shaw?
200
Dickinson established Africana Studies as a major in this year.
What is 2008?
200
The first Black astronaut.
Who is Robert H. Lawrence, Jr?
300
The organization, created by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, responsible for helping establish Negro History Week as well as changing it to Black History Month.
The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH)
300
This author traveled to Africa and sailed back to America on a freighter so he could experience the tragedy of his ancestors' being captured and sold as slaves. He turned this experience into a best-selling novel that has been translated into 26 languages and won 271 awards, including the Pullitzer Prize. Name the author and the book.
What is Alex Haley's, Roots?
300
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke at Dickinson in this year.
What is 1961?
300
Dickinson integrated its women's residence halls in this year.
What is 1961?
300
The first Black newspaper.
What is the Freedom's Journal? (1826)
400
The year that Negro History Week became Black History Month.
What is 1976? (Will accept the 1940s and/or the 1930s, unofficially)
400
This person is often referred to as a "storyteller" in West Africa. They perpetuate the oral traditions of a family or village.
What is a griot?
400
The first known African American graduate of Dickinson College.
Who is John Robert Paul Brock?
400
The year Dr. Joseph R. Washington, the first Black Dickinson faculty member, joined the faculty.
What is 1964?
400
The first Black licensed pilot.
Who is Bessie Coleman?
500
One of the reasons Negro History Week was originally in the month of February.
What are the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincolcn.
500
This person wrote "Lift Every Voice and Sing," more commonly known as the Black National Anthem.
Who is James Weldon Johnson?
500
The year the Wheel and Chain inducted its first black member.
What is 1965? (Maureen Newton)
500
One of the women who integrated the women's dorms in 1961.
Who are Judy Rogers and Maureen Newton?
500
First Black United States Senator was this man.
Who is Hiram Revels? (Mississippi, 1870)