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Bejamin Banneker ws known as a scientist, astronomer, and surveyor, but he, too, was an inventor. What was his major invention that was probably the first of its kind in the United States.
What is wooden clock?
100
What is the word used to describe the "great scattering" of African people from their communities in Africa to other parts of the world.
What is "Diaspora"?
100
On June 13, 1866, the U.S. Congress proposed the ______ Amendment to the Constitution. This amendment defined citizenship to include all those born or naturalized in the United States. This guaranteed citizenship for Blacks and equal protection under the law.
What is the Fourteenth?
100
This choriographer was a pioneer in restoring the African and Caribbean heritage to dance in America. She is still reerred to as the "mother of African American Dance".
Who is Katherine Dunham?
100
In 1868, this African American was elected Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, the highest elective office held by an African American up to that time. Name him.
Who is Oscar Dunn?
200
In 1896, this African American was selected director of agricultural research at Tuskegee Institute. Here, he began to teach and experiment with agricultural production. He was one of the first soil scientist to encourage crop rotation, and he developed several hundred industrial and household uses for peanuts and sweet potatoes. Name him.
Who is George Washington Carver?
200
What major river valley contributed to the social, economic, and political growth of three ancient African Empires--Ghana, Mali and Songhai?
What is Niger River Valley?
200
In 1787, this act passed by Congress determined the number of representatives from each state. Enslaved Blacks had no voice in government but their numbers accounted for each state's seats in the House of Representatives. What act made this possible.
What is the "three-fifths" Compromise?
200
In 1852, a best-selling book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, described the horrible conditions of slavery. The book, published in the National Era, an anti-slavery newspaper, helped gain support for the abolitionists. Today her home is a museum and has a significant research library. Who wrote the famous anti-slavery novel?
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200
One of the most liberal chief justices of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on a number of decisions rlating to school segregation and employment issues. He said, "In the field of public education, the doctrine of separate but equal has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal". Name this Chief Justice.
Who is Earl Warren?
300
This African American scientist and inventor presented his invention at the Second International Exposition of Sanitation and Safety. His breathing helmet and smoke protector (later called a gas mask) won First prize. It proved successful in 1916 when the inventor rescued a number of men trapped in a tunnel filled with poison gases. He also sold a patent for the automatic traffic signal for $40,000 to GE.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
300
Rosamund Johnson, trained at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, and his brother James Weldon Johnson, wrote a song that is often called the "Negro National Anthem." Name it.
What is Lift Every Voice and Sing?
300
On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a presidential order that freed enslaved Black people in the Confederate states. Some believe he did this to weaken the Confederacy as well as to generate favorable world opinion. Name the presidential order.
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
300
This gifted poet, writer, and orator of the anti-slavery movement was called the "Bronze Muse". Growing up in Baltimore, Maryland she devoted her life to ending the enslavement and oppression of African. Some of her works, especially her only novel, Iola Leroy, have been rediscovered. Name the African American poet.
Who is Frances Ellen Watkins Harper?
300
In 1967, this African American became the first Black woman elected to the US Congress. She represented New York's 12th District. She was a champion for children, women and low income people. In 1972, she campaigned for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, becoming the first Black woman to seek the nation's highest political office. Name her.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
400
This African American is credited with many important inventions (more than sixty patents) related to railway systems and electrical industries. His patents were sold to General Electric, Westinghouse, and American Bell Telephone. Thomas Edison offered him a job and he turned him down. The American Catholic Tribune called hime the "greatest electrician in the world" in 1888. Name him.
Who is Granville T. Woods?
400
Between 1915 and 1920, nearly one million African Americans had moved from the agricultural South to the crowded urban cores of the North. What is the name given to this mass movement of people from the South to the North.
What is The Great Migration?
400
Which amendment to the constitution abolished slavery?
What is the Thirteenth?
400
In 2004, the official White House portraits of President William Clinton and First Lady, Hillary Clinton were unveiled. This African American artist from Silver Spring, MD painted both and became the first African American to paint an officail presidential portrait. He became the first artist commissioned to paint an offical portrait of a Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall. Name the artist.
Who is Simmie Knox?
400
In 1996, Maryland made judicial history when Governor Parris Glendening named this African American to become the 23rd chief judge in the 220-year history of the Maryland Court of Appeals. This African American rose from poverty in East Baltimore to attend Harvard Law School. He was appointed to the same court that had earlier overturned his 1964 trespassing conviction for participating in a civil rights sit-in in downtown Baltimore. Name hime.
Who is Robert Bell?
500
In 1882, this scientist received a patent for his invention of the first incandescent electric light bulb with a carbon filament. It was considered an improvement of Thomas Edison’s electric lamp. This scientist/inventor contributed so many inventions to the field of electricity that many of his fellow scientists called him "the black Edison." This scientist was a member of the Edison Pioneers, a group many called the “greatest inventors” of the time. Name him.
Who is Lewis H. Latimer?
500
Employers exploited African American labor by creating new systems to re-enslave African Americans after the Civil War. These systems have been labeled "almost slavery". One of these was the convict labor system. Name another.
What is the sharecropping system?
500
In 1941 this President issued Executive Order 8802 that prohibited employers from discriminating against African Americans in the war industries and in government services because of race, creed, color, or national origin. The Order came in response to threat of a large protest march on Washington, D.C. Name the President who issued the order.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
500
In 1987, this African American poet won the Pulitzer Prize for her collection of poetry titled Thomas and Beulah (1986). Her other writings include Yellow House on the Corner (1980), Fifth Sunday (1985), and Grace Notes (1989). In her works, she explores the nuances of cultural history. In 1993, she was named Poet Laureate of the United States--a position she held to 1995. She has authored six volumes of poetry, a novel, a collection of short stories, and a play. She is now a Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia.Name her.
Who is Rita Dove?
500
This white lawyer was a strong abolitionist and member of the Anti-Slavery Society. He defended so many re-captured enslaved blacks that he became known as "the attorney general for runaway negroes". In 1849, he was elected the the US Senate. In 1855, he was elected the governor of Ohio and as a founding member of the Republican Party. He clashed with Lincoln but was more critical of Andrew Johnson. Name the national leader.
Who is Salmon P. Chase?