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Wrote "Still I Rise," "Phenomenal Woman" and "Touched by An Angel"
Maya Angelou
100

This person wrote Up From Slavery

Booker T. Washington

100

One of Zora Neal Hurston's most known books including characters like Tea Cake and Janie

What is "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

100

One of the most popular black owned periodicals, This magazine started by John H Johnson has a title that is typically synonymous with black

What is Ebony

100

This author of The Rose that Grew from Concrete

Who is Tupac Shakur

200

Wrote "I Too Sing America"

Langston Hughes

200

This person wrote Roots and assisted Malcolm X in writing his autobiography.

Alex Haley

200

James Baldwin's most known work about a young man that is falsely accused of a crime and is put in jail.

What is "If Beale Street Could Talk"

200

This popular magazine was started by Edward Lewis, Clarence O. Smith, Cecil Hollingsworth and Jonathan Blount in 1968 and has a name meaning the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something

What is Essence

200

This author wrote a book with a two word name which includes a gender and a color

What is Black Boy by Richard Wright

300

Jamaican-born writer of "If We Must Die"

Claude McKay

300

This person was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard University and also wrote the Souls of Black Folk.

Dr. W.E.B. Dubois

300

The title of the novel by Chinua Achebe comes from a line in W. B. Yeats' poem "The Second Coming". Includes the character Onkonkwo 

What is "Things Fall Apart"

300
This periodical founded by Earl G Graves is something you might pick up if you're an up and coming entrepreneur.
What is Black Enterprise Magazine
300

This author wrote mainly of female protagonist such as Celia

Who is Alice Walker

400
Author of the poem "The Hill We Climb"

Amanda Gorman

400

This person wrote Between the World and Me dedicated to his young son.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

400
This novel By Octavia Butler is part time-travel tale and part slave narrative, it was first published in 1979 and is still widely popular. Includes Character Dana
What is "Kindred"
400
Founded by Robert S Abbot this newspaper was the nation's most influential black weekly newspaper by the advent of World War I, with more than two thirds of its readership base located outside of Chicago
What is The Chicago Defender
400

The author wrote books Beloved and The Bluest Eye

Who is Toni Morrison 

500
(Two Answers) "This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile" is an excerpt from what poem and by what poet?
"We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
500

An African tribal musician, storyteller, preserver of the genealogies and oral traditions of the tribe. It is said that when this person passes away it is as if a library has been burned. 

A Griot

500

Author of A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

500
While John H Johnson was busy producing Ebony he also produced this African American Magazine famous for its coverage of Emmett Till, however, many people remember it for its beauty of the week section
What is Jet
500
One of this Authors book includes a man who is not named through the entire story
Who is Ralph Ellison. (The Book is "Invisible Man)