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Publish anonymously in 1859, which semi-autobiographical work Harriet E. Wilson is widely recognized by scholars as the first novel published by an African American woman in the United States?
A) Incidents in the Life of a slave girl
B) Our Nig, or Sketches from the life of a Free Black
C) Lola Leroy; or shadows uplifted
D) Jump ship to freedom
Our Nig, or Sketches from the life of a Free black
In 1968, Shirley Chisholm made history as the first African American women elected to which legislative body?
A) The United State Senate
B) The New York State Supreme Court
C) The United States House of Representatives
D) The Cabinet of the President
The United States House of Representatives
Prince's iconic 1984 film and soundtrack album feature which celebrated title track?
A) Little Red Corvette
B) 1999
C) Purple Rain
D) Kiss
Purple Rain
Ta-Nehisi Coates made his fictional debut in 2019 with which novel about a young enslaved man named Hiram Walker who possesses a mysterious power connected to memory and water?
A) The Nickel Boys
B) Demon Copperhead
C) Homeland
D) The Water Dancer
The Water Dancer
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country"?
A) Joseph Stalin
B) Winston Churchill
C) John F. Kennedy
D) Marie Antoinette
John F. Kennedy
In the Civil Rights Cases of 1883, the U.S. Supreme Court stuck down key provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, ruling that Congress could not regulate private acts of racial discrimination. Which constitutional amendment did the court claim Congress overstepped?
A) The First Amendment
B) The Tenth Amendment
C) The Fourteenth Amendment
D) The Fifteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment
Which physician and researcher pioneered methods of storing and preserving blood plasma, leading to the establishment of large scale blood banks during World World ll?
A) Daniel Hale Williams
B) Charles Drew
C) Percy Julian
D) Kizzmekia Corbett
Charles Drew
Etta James recorded her signature soul-blues "At Last" in what year?
A) 1955
B) 1968
C) 1958
D) 1961
1961
James Baldwin's semi-autobiographical debut novel, Go Tell It On The Mountain, is primary set in which iconic location on a pivotal fourteenth birthday?
A) The rural Delta of Mississippi
B) The Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago
C) A Store front church in Harlem, New York
D) A middle-class Black neighborhood in Atlanta
A Store front church in Harlem, New York
"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; the rock landed on us"?
A) Charles Cornwallis
B) Malcolm X
C) Brigham Young
D) Henry Ford
Malcolm X
When Florence Price's symphony NO. E minor premiered with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1933, it marked what historic achievement in American orchestral history?
A) The first symphony ever composed by an American born musician
B) The first time a major American orchestra performed a symphonic work by an African American woman
C) The first piece of classical music to win a Pulitzer prize
D) The first symphonic score written without using brass instruments
The first time a major American orchestra performed a symphonic work by an African American woman
Mathew Henson accomplished a historic milestone in 1909 along side Robert Peary when they reached which geographic landmark?
A) South Pole
B) The Summit of Mount Everest
C) The North Pole
D) The Mariana Trench
The North Pole
Which band released the upbeat 1978 disco-funk anthem "September" famous for opening line "Do you remember......."?
A) Earth Wind and Fire
B) Kool and The Gang
C) Commodores
D) High Tops
Earth Wind and Fire
In Richard Wright's 1940 powerhouse novel Native Son, a 20 year old African American man living in poverty in Chicago accidentally kills a wealthy white women named Mary Dalton. What is his name?
A) John Grimes
B) Bobo
C) Sport Life
D) Bigger Thomas
Bigger Thomas
God, "does not play dice"?
A) Pope John Paul ll
B) Albert Einstein
C) Frank Sinatra
D) George Washington
Albert Einstein
On Miles Davis seminal 1959 modal jazz album Kind of Blue, which track famously utilizes a 10-bar blues from rather than the conventional 12-bar blues structure?
A) So What
B) Freddie Freeloader
C) All Blues
D) Blue in Green
All Blues
What critical calculations did Katherine Johnson perform for NASA that were vital to the success of early U.S. crewed space flights, including the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing?
A) Designing the rocket fuel combustion chambers
B) Calculating orbital mechanics and launch-window trajectories
C) Writing the primary operating system software for the lunar module
D) Engineering the heat shield materials for atmospheric re-entry
Calculating orbital mechanics and launch-window trajectories
Which artist dropped the critically acclaimed 2016 album Blonde, redefining the soundscape of alternative R&B soul?
A) Frank Ocean
B) The Weekend
C) Miguel
D) Anderson Paak
Frank Ocean
Tayari Jones acclaimed novel An American Marriage explores the devastation wrought on a young Atlanta couple when the husband, Roy, is:
A) Drafted and sent missing-in-action during the Vietnam War
B) Wrongfully convicted of a rape he did not commit and sentenced to 12 years in prison
C) Falsely accused of embezzlement from a prominent civil rights foundation
D) forced to go into hiding after witnessing a mob related crime
Wrongfully convicted of a rape he did not commit and sentenced to 12 years in prison
"The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here"?
A) Abraham Lincoln
B) Vince Lombardi
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) Thomas Edison
Abraham Lincoln
In 1961, The Marvelettes scored Motown Records' very first number one pop hit on Billboard Hot 100 with "Please Mr.Postman". Which member of the group sang the lead vocals?
A) Mary Wilson
B) Gladys Horton
C) Martha Reeves
D) Wanda Young
Gladys Horton
Alma Thomas broke a major barrier in 1972 when she became the first African American women to have a solo art exhibition at which prestigious museums?
A) The Louvre in Pairs
B) The National Gallery of Art in London
C) The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York
D) The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York
In the opening verse of Chuck Berry's 1958 classic "Johnny B. Goode," Were was the titular character born and raised?
A) Down in Louisiana close to New Orleans
B) Up in Chicago
C) Back in St. Louis by the Mississippi Stream
D) Out in California by the Golden Gate
Down in Louisiana close to New Orleans
Brit Bennett's best selling novel The Vanishing Half centers on which premise involving the Vignes twin sisters?
A) They are estranged secret agents working in opposite sides of The Cold War
B) They are jazz prodigies and run away to Pairs in the 1920s
C) Identical twin sisters who run away from a small southern Black Community at 16,with one eventually choosing to pass as white
D) Conjoined twins who struggle to separate their identities in a medical facility
Identical twin sisters who run away from a small southern Black Community at 16, with one eventually choosing to pass as white
"The report of my death was an exaggeration"?
A) Ronald Reagan
B) Elvis Presley
C) Mark Twain
D) Napoleon l
Mark Twain