Arts and Literature
What Alex Haley novel was made into a television mini-series in 1977 and 1979?
Roots
For what team did Jackie Robinson play in 1947?
The Brooklyn Dodgers
What Black American triggered the "Montgomery Bus Boycott"
Rosa Parks
W.E.B. Du Bois was the first Black American to recieve a PH.D from what university?
Harvard
George Washington Caver made paint and ink from what common food item?
Peanuts
Dizzy GIlespine and Charlie Parker were innovators of what type of music in the early 1940s?
Bebop
Born in 1968, who directed such films as Boyz N the Hood, Poetic Justice, Higher Learning, Baby Boy, and 2 Fast 2 Furious?
John Singleton
Gabriel Prosser was arrested and executed in 1800 for what reason?
Leading a slave revolt
In 1904 the Daytona Normal and Industrail School in Daytona Beach, Florida was founded by whom?
Mary McLeod Bethune
The cash register was invented by what African American?
F.A. Hilyer
Who was the first Black American poet to be nationally recognized for his writing?
Paul Laurence Dunbat
Who holds the record for most points scored in a single basketball game (100)?
Wilt Chamberlain
What term is referred to the large Black population in the Southern cotton growing states?
Black Belt
In 1908, what was the first black sorroity founded at Howard University?
Alpha Kappa Alpha
What notable scientist, astronomer, and inventor was commissioned to help layout Washington, D.C.?
Benjamin Banneker
What term refers generally to the artistic and socio- cultural the 1920s and early 1930s?
Harlem Renaissance
Earvin "Magic" Johnson played for what college basketball team.
Michigan State Spartans
What was "Freedom Summer"?
It was a campaign in South to register black people to vote during the summer of 1964.
Who performed the world's first open heart surgery?
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Meredith Gourdine invented what automobile device?
Exhaust purification system
Porgy was a black musical play that had its debut in 1927. It became a film in 1959 entitled Porgy and Bess and had an all-star black cast. Name two of the actors/actresses that performed in this film.
Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Sammy Davis, Jr., Brock Peters, Diahann Carroll, Ivan Dixon, Clarence Muse
What was the name of the first hip-hop group to break into the mainstream American culture in the early 1980s?
Run-DMC
Who were Exodusters?
They were black people who left the South after Reconstruction who settled in Kansas in 1879.
In the agriculture feild, some former slaves were share croppers. What was meant by this term?
A tenant farmer would give his share of crops raised to the land lord as rent.
What system did Robert Shurney develop specifically for use aboard a Skylab sapce mission?
Waste Management System