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

Story written by the first African American President

Dreams of My Father

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 poplar black owned periodicals today, This magazine started by John H Johnson has a title that is typically synonymous with black
What is Ebony
100
This author of Sympathy was born in in Dayton Ohio
Who is Paul Lawrence Dunbar
200
Wrote "The Mother" and "We Real Cool"
Gwendolyn Brooks
200

He cells were used for over 50 years to help with finding cures for diseases like cancer.

Henrietta Laks

200
James Baldwin's most known work about racism in the south. Has strong Biblical undertones
What is "Go Tell it on The Mountain"
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

In this autobiography he burned down his grandparents living room and began drinking a really young age


What is Black Boy by Richard Wright

300
Foreign-born writer of "If We Must Die"
Claude McKay
300

This story is about mass incarceration

The New Jim Crow

300
The title of the novel by Chinua Achebe comes from a line in W. B. Yeats' poem "The Second Coming". Includes the character Ibo
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

A Raisin in the Sun

Who was Lorraine Hansberry


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A Rose that Grew From Concrete

Tupac Shakur

400

This book details the experiences of various Black families that migrated from the South to the North (Harlem) to escape the cruelties of Jim Crow segregation, and to find better schools and employment sources. 

The Warmth of Other Suns

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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 about a woman who, although her name means peace, brings anything but to her hometown in Ohio
Who is Toni Morrison (the Book is Sula)
500

I Too Sing America... 

I am the darker brother

Langston Hughes

500

The misadventures of an awkward black girl.

Issa Rae

500
a historical novel by Charles R. Johnson about the final voyage of an illegal American slave ship. Set in 1830, it presents a personal and historical perspective of the illegal slave trade in the United States. The main character in this book is Rutherfod
What is "Middle Passage"
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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)