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She delivered a powerful speech titled “Ain’t I a Woman” in 1851 at the Woman’s Convention in Akron, Ohio
Who is Sojourner Truth
100
Jamie Foxx won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in this 2004 film that focuses on 30 years of the life of an iconic rhythm and blues musician.
What is Ray?
100
This person founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and Negro History Week
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
100
Considered one of the most successful and critically acclaimed bands of the twentieth century with hits like Boogie Wonderland, Shining Star, September and Fantasy, this band has produced songs that spanned the musical genres of R&B, soul, jazz, pop, rock, funk, disco, Latin, African and gospel.
Who is Earth, Wind, and Fire?
100
This 1990 mystery novel by Walter Mosley centers on the main character, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, and his transformation from a day laborer into a detective.
What is A Devil in A Blue Dress?
200
Who is the first Black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress?
Who is Halle Berry
200
This 1972 film, directed by Gordon Parks, Jr. and starring Ron O'Neal, is one of the few films ever to have been out grossed by its soundtrack.
What is Super Fly?
200
This African American gentleman was a founder of Tuskegee Institute, a Black college in Alabama.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
200
In 1981, this hip hop group from Hollis, Queens, New York is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential acts in the history of hip hop culture, becoming the first group in the genre to have a gold album and be nominated for a Grammy Award.
Who is Run DMC?
200
This James Baldwin book is considered one of the most influential books about race relations in the 1960s.
What is the Fire Next Time?
300
She is the first Black female astronaut to travel into space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
300
This 1961 film, starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Louis Gossett, is based on the play by Lorraine Hansberry and follows a black family that wants a better life away from the city.
What is A Raisin in the Sun?
300
This woman founded a Black college in Daytona Beach, Florida and was an advisor to both Eleanor and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
300
Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an “inventive” trumpet and cornet player, this musician nicknamed Satchmo or Pops laid the shifting the focus of the music from collective improvisation to solo performance.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
300
In 1980, this book sought to center African narratives and to reclaim the teaching of African American history from the margins of Europe.
What is Afrocentricity?
400
She was the first and only African American woman elected to the United States Senate.
Who is Carol Moseley Braun?
400
This 1996 film, directed by F. Gary Gray and stars Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox and Kimberly Elise, tells the story of four close friends in Los Angeles who decide to plan and execute a bank robbery.
What is Set It Off?
400
This person was the first African American to earn a doctorate degree from Harvard University.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
400
Inspired by jazz instrumentalists, this singer had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing producing hits like Lady Sings the Blues and Strange Fruit.
Who is Billie Holiday?
400
This 2002 Terri McMillian novel explores the familial relationships between parents, their children, and siblings, dealing with contemporary challenges such as prescription drug addiction, alcoholism, incest, homosexuality, molestation, single parenthood, and divorce.
What is A Day Late and a Dollar Short?
500
This woman compiled a massive document called the Red Record, which chronicled lynchings of Blacks throughout the south.
Who is Ida B. Wells Barnett?
500
This 1943 film starring Lena Horne and Cab Callaway is based on the life and times of dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, a talented dancer who returns home in 1918 after fighting in World War I and tries to pursue a career as a performer.
What is Stormy Weather?
500
In 1862, this person was the first northern African American schoolteacher to go south to teach former slaves.
Who is Charlotte Forten?
500
Nicknamed the Divine One, this jazz singer, recorded After Hours, Dreamy and Hot Jazz.
Who is Sarah Vaughan?
500
In 1773, Phyllis Wheatley became the first published African American woman, receiving fame in England and the American colonies for this book.
What is Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral?