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This famous musician was nicknamed, "Satchmo"
Who is Louis Armstrong
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Located in St. Augustine, Florida, this Fort is considered the first free black community in North America
What is Fort Mose
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In what year did Jackie Robins break the color barrier in Major League Baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers?
What is 1947
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Who was the first African American major-party candidate to run for president of the United States of America in 1972
Who is Shirley Chisholm
100
What event spearheaded the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks and/or Public Transit System
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American singer-songwriter, musician and composer who was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He started to lose his sight at the age of five and went completely blind by the age of seven.
Who is Ray Charles
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Although this American folklorist, anthropologist, and author was born in Alabama, she was so proud of her heritage as a black Floridian that in her autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road, she claimed she was born in Eatonville. In the first year or two of her life, her family moved to Eatonville, Florida, a small black community near Orlando. This community shaped her life and her writing.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston
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Satchel Paige was an infamous pitcher in the Negro League Baseball and was the oldest rookie in Major League baseball at the age of 42. Where was his hometown?
Where is Mobile, Alabama
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The first black female Secretary of State
Who is Condoleezza Rice
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On February 1, 1960, a group of African American men walked into a store and sat at the lunch counter but were not served any food. This event was the start of sit-ins opposing segregation in eating establishments
What is the Greensboro Sit-In
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This composer, bandleader and jazz pianist recieved his honorary doctorates from Howard and Yale Universities and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1971. Some of his famous works are "A Drum is a Woman," and "Sophisticated Lady,"
Who is Duke Ellington
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The site in Florida where a horrible massacre occurred in January of 1923. 30 to 40 African Americans were killed after a white woman accused an African American man of attacking her. This incident was also portrayed in a movie directed by John Singleton
What is Rosewood Massacre
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Florida native was considered the "world's fastest human". Also played NFL football
Who is Bob Hayes
300
Name the first African American member of the Supreme Court?
Who is Thurgood Marshall
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In 1957, nine students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower.
What is Little Rock Crisis/ Little Rock Nine
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The first African-American woman composer whose work was performed by a leading US orchestra.
Who is Florence Beatrice Price
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Name the historically black university in Florida that began as the State Normal College for Colored Students
What is Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU)
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Who was the first African American [male] to play in the National Basketball Association ?
Who is Earl Lloyd
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Was born free in North Carolina and became the first African American ever elected to the U.S Senate when he took is oath of office in 1870
Who is Hiram Revels
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On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally for jobs and freedom, this event was known as the
What is March on Washington
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He started out as a pianist and later became known as a vocalist. He recorded as a duet with his daughter in 1991
Who is Nat King Cole
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BONUS JEOPARDY: ANSWER WORTH DOUBLE IF BOTH QUESTIONS ARE ANSWERED. In 1871, this American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist was born in Jacksonville, Florida. He is known for writing the national anthem to millions of black Americans BONUS: What is the name of the National Anthemn
Who is James Weldon Johnson Bonus: Lift Every Voice and Song
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She earned the title as "the fastest woman in the world" after winning three gold medals in the 1960 Rome Olympics
Who is Wilma Rudolph
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She was the first African-American woman to serve in a cabinet post. From 1979 to 1981 she was secretary of health, education, and welfare (health and human services after 1980).
Who is Patricia Roberts Harris
500
On July 27, 1919, an African-American teenager drowned in Lake Michigan after violating the unofficial segregation of Chicago’s beaches and being stoned by a group of white youths. His death, and the police’s refusal to arrest the white man whom eyewitnesses identified, sparked a week of rioting between gangs of black and white Chicagoans. This event was called
What is Chicago Race Riot of 1919