Questions
Author of A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
This author won two Pulitizer prizes (one for Fences and one for The Piano Lesson)
August Wilson
This Civil Rights leader followed the ideas of Mohandas Ghandi.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, this author was inspired to learn more about his heritage by a teacher who stated that blacks had no history.
Arthur Schomburg
Mr. Gorny's room number
140B
She wrote The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved
Toni Morrison
Malcolm X's full name
El-Hajj Malik E-Shabazz
The period from 1919-1940 where African American artists had a tremendous outpouring in expression in the visual and literary arts.
The Harlem Renaissance.
His Dutchman won him the 1964 Obie award for the best Off-Broadway production
Amiri Baraka
Mr. Gorny's room number at Bennett
499
He wrote Invisible Man.
Ralph Ellison
She wrote The Color Purple.
Alice Walker
She wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Maya Angelou
This poem by Langston Hughes speaks to the rage and anger among African Americans living in the inner city.
Harlem
#73 on the Buffalo Bills
Dion Dawkins
This Supreme Court decision overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and integrated schools
Brown v. Board
He wrote Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
She technically falls out of the Harlem Renaissance period, but is remembered for her works such as Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Zora Neale Hurston
The author you enjoyed reading most during this section of class
The two teams playing in the NBA Finals this year
Miami Heat and Denver Nuggets
This author's first novel was Go Tell It on the Mountain.
James Baldwin
This Civil Rights leader followed the idea of separatism of Blacks and Whites
Malcolm X
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature is edited by these authors.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Valerie A. Smith
The author you found most interesting.
Any from this year.
The two colleges Mr. Gorny has attended.
Canisius College and Buffalo State