Harlem Renaissance
A leading light of the Harlem Renaissance, he went on to write countless works of poetry, prose and plays.
Langston Hughes
This Grammy-Award winning quartet from Philadelphia has sold over four million copies of their album “Cooley High Harmony”.
Boys II Men
Who was the African American businesswoman recognized as being the first female self-made millionaire in the United States?
Who is Madam C.J Walker
This chemist gave us peanut butter, and also created 518 new products from agricultural crops, include inks, dye’s, soaps, cosmetics and so much more.
Who is George Washington Carver
This American poet became the youngest inaugural poet in US history in 2021 at only 22 years old.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
This triple threat got her start in the Harlem musical revivals before finding stardom in France with her famous banana costume.
Josephine Baker
Known as the “Queen of Soul”, this singer has earned 5 gold records and placed 9th in Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Artists of All Time”.
Aretha Franklin
The original creator of the famous Jack Daniels Whisky
Who is Nathan “Nearest” Green
Percy Lavon Julian synthesized a drug called physostigmine that helps treat which eye disease
What is Glaucoma
Octavia Butler, famed science fiction author, suffered from this specific learning disability.
What is Dyslexia?
This celebrated Harlem Renaissance artist is known as “the father of Black American Art”.
Aaron Douglas
Lena Horne’s career spanned over seventy years as a performer in film, television, and theatre. Lena won a Tony Award for her work in this Broadway show.
The Lady and Her Music
Following World War I, what city was recognized nationally referred to as “Black Wall Street.” In June 1921, mobs of white residents attacked and murdered Black residents and burned/destroyed homes and businesses businesses; totaling in over 23 million dollars worth of damage.
Where is Tulsa
This Queens, NY native helped make countless neighborhoods safe by patenting the first ever home security system.
Who is Marie Van Brittan Brown
This famous poet and author toured Europe with a production of “Porgy and Bess”, had her own line of Hallmark greeting cards, wrote/produced several movies, and wrote two of her own cook books.
Who is Maya Angelou
This dance was popularized in the ballrooms of 1920’s Harlem, including The Savoy.
The Lindy Hop
Name the entertainer who introduced the dance craze known as the “Twist”.
Chubby Checker
The idea for vaccination was introduced in the 16th century from the African tradition of inoculation by an enslaved person
Who Is Onesimus
Shirley Jackson is the first Black Woman to graduate from MIT. Name 3 of the monumental tech contributions she made.
Touch-tone phones, portable fax capabilities, fiber optic cables, and caller ID.
“Poems on Various Subjects, Religion and Moral” - the first book ever written and published by an African-American - was written by this author, in 1773.
Who is Phillis Wheatley
This famous tap dancer was a favorite dance partner of Shirley Temple.
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
This composer created nearly 200 works including five symphonies, four ballets, nine operas, and was the first African-American to have a symphony performed by a major orchestra.
William Grant Still
Before Central Park was created, the landscape along what is now the Park’s perimeter from West 82nd to West 89th Street was a community of predominantly African-Americans.Free Blacks founded the village in 1825: the first free Black community in New York City. When slavery ended in New York State in 1827, the population grew as people built and rented homes here. The town grew to be a middle-class Black community of almost 5 acres! What was the name of this village?
What is Seneca Village
What was the name of the first novel written by an African-American author, in 1853?
Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter