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In 1993, she became the first black to be honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature for six novels
Who is Toni Morrison
100
The term used to describe the second leg of the triangular slave trade between Europe, African, and the Americas between 1520 and 1860
What is The "Middle Passage"
100
The year "Black History Month" officially began
When is 1976
100
The first Black American to win a Pulitzer Prize
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks
100
Who lost her teaching job due to a lawsuit against her for refusing to give up her seat in a railroad car marked "Whites Only"
Who is Ida B Wells
200
In what year did the first Broadway play written by a Black American woman open in New York?
When is 1959
200
The Black American who sparked the "Montgomery Bus Boycott"
Who is Rosa Parks
200
The infamous Watts race riots occurred in what year
When is 1965
200
Who was the author of the hit play A Raisin in The Sun
Who is Lorraine Hansberry
200
A campaign in the south to register black people to vote during the summer of 1964
What is Freedom Summer
300
Zora Neal Hurston became a leading figure in the Black cultural movement known as what
What is Harlem Renaissance
300
In 1960, what did four Black American students do at a whites only lunch counter to protest discrimination
What is staged a sit in
300
The Congress of Racial Equality was founded in what year
When is 1942
300
The author of the hit play A Raisin in the Sun
Who is Lorraine Hansberry
300
Between 1915 and the mid 1920's approximately how many blacks left rural South to urban areas of the North and the West as part of the Great Michigan
What is One million
400
What is Maya Angelou's first autobiography nominated for a National Book Award
What is I know Why the Caged Bird Sings
400
Gabriel Prosser was arrested and executed in 1800 for what reason
What is leading a slave revolt
400
The year the fugitive Slave Law was passed
When is 1850
400
Scott Joplin played his ragtime music on what instrument
What is piano
400
Civil Rights leader from Mississippi was slain in 1963
Who is Medgar Evans
500
In 1953, Ralph Ellison received the National Book Award for what book?
What is Invisible Man
500
Where was Marcus Garvey born
What is Jamaica
500
What year did G.T. Sampson invent the clothes dryer
When is 1892
500
What Alex Haley novel was made into a television mini series in 1977 and 1979
What is Roots
500
This person sang spiritual songs to communicate with the slaves she intended to take north to freedom on the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman