What term refers generally to the artistic and socio-cultural awakening among black people in the 1920s and 1930s?
Harlem Renaissance
100
What did George Washington Carver use to develop shaving cream, paper, ink, rubbing oil, synthetic rubber, and instant coffee?
Peanuts
100
What was Chubby Checker's longest running hit song on the Top 40 charts?
The Twist
100
What state was the first to abolish slavery?
Vermont
100
What president initially rejected the service of Black slaves in the Union Army during the Civil War?
President Abraham Lincoln
200
Who wrote the anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
200
What Black American inventor patented the hearing aid?
Harry Hopkins
200
What was Louis Armstrong's nickname?
Satchmo
200
Where did the "sit-in" movement begin?
Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina
200
Who were the first African American women Army officers stationed in Kentucky?
Myrtle Anderson and Margaret Elizabeth Barnes Jones
300
Music historians refer to what type of music as the first Black American music?
Spirituals
300
Who invented the three-way traffic light?
Garrett Morgan
300
In what 1984 movie did artist Prince have a starring role?
Purple Rain
300
What was the name of Father Divine's movement, which emphasized social equality?
Peace Missions
300
In 1991, Sharon Pratt Kelly was the first black woman to become mayor of what major city?
Washington, D.C.
400
What is the name of the Harlem club where many famous Black entertainers began their careers?
What is The Cotton Club?
400
Hyram S. Thomas was a chef who created what popular snack?
Potato chips
400
Birthplace of Billie Holiday, Pennsylvania Avenue became the center of black life through the 1930s in what city?
Baltimore
400
What term describes the turbulent period of time marked by twenty-five race riots that began in the summer of 1919 and lasted until the end of the year?
Red Summer
400
Barack Obama was a keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and later won a seat on the U.S. senate in what state?
Illinois
500
The New Orleans Tribune, the first black daily newspaper, was founded in New Orleans in what year?
1864
500
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, who was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry in the United States?
St. Elmo Brady
500
In what year were artists Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, and the Soul Stirrers inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
1989
500
The 1890s was called the "women's era" in black history because of the rise of the black women's clubs and movement. For what reasons were these clubs and associations formed?
To provide social services and promote racial and gender equality for women in their communities
500
What landmark Supreme Court ruling required all railroad companies to provide equal accommodations for Blacks?