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This African-American social activist and leader in the American civil rights movement, politician, professor, and writer visited the college last fall.
Who is Julian Bond
100
He was the first African-American gold champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association circuit
Who is Tiger Woods.
100
This was an era in the 1920's were black writers and artists in Harlem led a flourishing new movement in literature, theater, and jazz.
What is The Harlem Renaissance.
100
This African-American invented half of what makes PB&J sandwiches even possible
Who is George W. Carver.
100
This Supreme Court decision decreed that schools be integrated.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education.
200
She was the first black woman in space.
Who is Mae Jemison
200
This African American artist is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars
Who is Beyonce Knowles.
200
The author of “The Color Purple”?
Who is Alice Walker.
200
This African-American invented the elevator
Who is Alexander Miles
200
This Civil Rights leader said “THE TIME IS ALWAYS RIGHT TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT”
Who is Martin Luther King.
300
This was the first state to abolish slavery (1977)
What is Vermont
300
This African-American musical form was born out of the blues, ragtime, and marching bands
What is Jazz
300
An American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry.
Who is Langston Hughes
300
She was the first African-American of a major party to run for president of the United States
Who is Shirley Chisholm.
300
This crop still grows wild in Caffa, Ethiopia where it was originally used and gets it name from.
What is coffee.
400
This woman was a preacher, abolitionist, speaker, and women's rights advocate, and was commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp in 1986
Who is Sojourner Truth.
400
He became the first African American to work as a photographer for the Farm Security Administration, where he developed his powerful documentary style depicting slums, poverty, and the marginal existences of African Americans. Eventually he worked for Glamour, Vogue, and other glossy New York magazines in the 1940s.
Who is Gordon Parks.
400
The first African American author to win the Nobel Peace Prize for literature in 1993
Who is Toni Morrison.
400
This African-American founded Black History Month
Who is Dr. Carter G. Woodson.
400
This is the oldest HBCU in the nation
What is Cheyney University of Pennsylvania.
500
The NAACP was founded on February, 12 1909, which is also the centennial anniversary of this president.
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
500
By 1927 she was one of Europe's most famous and highly paid, African American entertainers. She danced and sang and eventually was naturalized as a French citizen in 1937. She worked for the Resistance in World War II and was awarded (1961) the Legion of Honor.
Who is Josephine Baker.
500
The first African-American writer.
Who is Phyllis Wheatley. ("Poems on Various Subjects" in 1773)
500
This African-American invented the refrigerator
Who is J. Standard.
500
The year African-Americans first participated in the Olympics
1904