Name the first African American woman to develop hair care products in the early 1900s and amassed a great fortune doing so.
Madame C.J. Walker
100
Name the street that has come to mean the heart of Harlem.
125th Street
100
A cabaret jazz club, one of the "big three" along with The Cotton Club and Minton's Playhouse.
Small's
100
Who spoke the famous "I have a Dream..." speech?
Dr. Martin Luther King
100
Novelist who published an unflinching condemnation of racism in his book entitled, Native Son.
Richard Wright
200
In 1840 he developed a steam engine for a war ship.
Benjamin Bradley
200
He is Harlem's best known poet/writer. His first book of poetry, A Weary Blues, was published in 1926.
Langston Hughes
200
A theatre in Harlem known for its high profile acts as well as its amateur nights from which the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and others arose.
The Apollo
200
Name the militant leader who promoted Black Nationalism and was shot to death by three Black Muslims.
Malcolm X
200
She is perhaps considered America's most popular and wealthiest African American woman today. Well known television figure, actress, producer and director but also well known for promoting literature and reading.
Oprah Winfrey
300
He invented an electric lamp and a carbon filament for light bulbs.
Lewis Howard Latimer
300
What does the word Renaissance mean?
Rebirth
300
During the era of the slave trade, men, women and children were brought from these West African countries to North America.
Ghana/Senegal/Mali
300
Name the important civil rights leader and co-founder of the NAACP.
W.E.B. DuBois
300
Grammy Award-winning poet, writer, composer and actress who has appeared in several Off-Broadway productions, including Jean Genet's The Blacks (1960). She wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970). She read her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at President Clinton's 1993 inauguration.
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Maya Angelou
400
He invented the first automatic refrigeration system for long-haul trucks in 1935.
Frederick McKinley Jones
400
An important church for black participation since the early 19th century. It moved to 138th Street in 1923 and was brought to even greater prominence by Adam Clayton Powell.
Abyssinian Baptist
400
The main thoroughfare (street) through the heart of Harlem is also known as Malcolm X Boulevard. It's on this street that one finds Harlem Hospital and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Lenox Avenue
400
Name the fiery orator who preached self-help and organized the 'Back to Africa' movement.
Marcus Garvey
400
She was a significant figure in the Harlem Renaissance who authored four novels including Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934) and the influential Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937). Her plays include the comedy Mule Bone (1931), written in collaboration with her friend Langston Hughes
Zora Neal Hurston
500
He invented a gas mask that was used to protect soldiers from chlorine fumes during World War I.
Garrett Augustus Morgan
500
She became known as 'Lady Day' and considered the greatest jazz singer America has known.
Billy Holiday (1915-1959)
500
Name the city where in 1963, during the civil rights movement, four young black girls attending Sunday school were killed when a bomb exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
Birmingham
500
He wrote what we now know as the 'anthem for African Americans, 'Lift Every Voice and Sing'
James Weldon Johnson
500
Pulitzer Prize-winning author best known for Roots (1976), his ancestral saga encompassing the entire African-American experience.