Arts
This literary giant was known for writing "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
Who was Zora Neale Hurston?
Barbara Jordan served at this state's senator and U.s Congresswoman.
What is Texas?
This state was the first to abolish slavery.
What is Vermont?
This American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader and composer was the leader of the first Black American band to play in Carnegie Hall.
Who is William Count Basie?
In 2001 this man was labeled as the first African American billionaire.
Who is Robert "Bob" Johnson?
This Florence, Alabama native was known as the "Father of the Blues".
Who was W.C. Handy?
He was the first Black American to die in the Revolutionary War.
Who was Crispus Attucks?
This anti-slavery newspaper was founded by Frederick Douglass.
The first rap song to achieve commercial success was "Rappers Delight". The name of the group who recorded this single in 1979.
Who is "The Sugar Hill Gang"?
This lady is known as the first black bank president.
Who was Maggie Lena Walker?
Nat Love was known for writing what type of stories.
What are Western's?
Sharon Pratt Kelly became the first black woman to be elected mayor of this major city.
What is Washington, DC?
What is a Sphinx?
This television show has recieved over 25 Emmy awards and has been the highest -rated talk show in television history.
What is the "Oprah Winfrey" show?
This beauty was the first African American to be on the cover of Vogue magazine.
Who is Beverly Johnson?
This Black American Queen was the first to be chosen as Miss America.
Who is Vanessa Williams?
In 1966 Robert Weaver , was sworn in as the first black member of a presidential cabinet by this president.
Who was President Lyndon B. Johnson?
This is the system in which Black Americans farmed someone else's land and received a split of the season's crop.
What is sharecropping?
MC Hammer's was known in elementary school as this name.
What is Stanley Kirk Burrell?
What is the United Negro College Fund?
This Gloria Naylor novel consisted of tales from seven black women who wound up on a dead-end street in a ghetto in the North. It later became a television movie.
What is The Women of Brewster Place?
She was the first Black American educator to serve as an advisor to five U.S. Presidents.
Who was Mary McLeod Bethune?
This early pioneer was the conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Who was "Barney Ford"?
This young man was the first black entertainer to sleep in the White House.
Martin Luther King Jr. got his doctorate from this northern school.
What is Boston University?