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35 Cards in this Set
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B.B. King is known for what type of music? |
Blues
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Known as one of the greatest African American jazz piano players, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969. Name him.
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Duke Ellington
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Who was the first African American singer to be admitted to the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York City?
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Marian Anderson
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What famous African American author/poet read at President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993?
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Maya Angelou
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Who wrote the book Born to Rebel? "What Alex Haley novel was made into a television mini-series in 1977 and 1979? |
Benjamin E. Mays
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Who was the first Black American poet to be nationally recognized for his writing?
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Roots
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The “Father of Gospel Music” composed over 1000 songs. Name him.
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Paul Lawrence Dunbar
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What is the name of the newsletter which was originally edited by W.E.B. Du Bois and published by the NAACP in 1910?
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Thomas A Dorsey.
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She was known as the “queen of gospel music”.
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The Crisis
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Her first recording “Move On Up a Little Higher” sold over a million copies in 1945. What was her name? |
Mahalia Jackson
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Hattie McDaniel was the first black performer to receive an Academy Award. She won for the Best Supporting Actress for what 1939 – film?
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Gone with the Wind
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For what 1954 film was Dorothy Dandridge the first black actress to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress? |
Carmen Jones
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Who wrote “Their Eyes are Watching God”?
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Who was the first Black American woman chosen as Miss American?
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Vanessa Williams
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Music historians refer to what type of music as the first Black American Music? |
Spirituals
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What African American novelist wrote Invisible Man, for which he won the National Book Award for fiction in 1952?
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Ralph Ellison
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What musical instrument used in Africa was frequently chosen as a royal or sacred instrument?
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Drum
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In 1905, the first black symphony was founded; what was it called?
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Philadelphia Concert Orchestra
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Did Maya Angelou take the title of her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, from a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar or Phillis Wheatley?
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Paul Laurence
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Who is regarded to as “the King of Tap Dancers”? |
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson
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The Roaring Twenties introduced an unprecedented outpouring of black art, literature, and music. What was this period known as?
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Harlem Renaissance
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In 1993, she became the first black to be honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature for six novels. She is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved which became a motion picture and in 1993 for Jazz. Name her: |
Toni Morrison
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Langston Hughes was responsible for publishing what Black American magazine?
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The Nation
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Name the singer who will always be remembered for the rendition of “Stormy Weather?”
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Lena Horne
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Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol admired each other and worked closely together. Were they artists or architects?
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artists
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Which singer-actress won a Tony in 2000: Whitney Houston or Heather Headley?
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Heather Headley
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Thomas A Dorsey has been called the father of gospel music. What is his best-known song?
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“Precious Lord, Take My Hand”
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What singer was known as “the empress of the blues”?
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Bessie Smith
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In her first leading role with the Metropolitan Opera, did Marian Anderson perform in a work by Verdi, Rossini, or Mozart? |
Verdi
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What internationally famous dancer choreographed the ballet titled Revelations?
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Alvin Ailey
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Brooklyn native Louis Gossett, Jr won an Emmy Award for his role in the TV movie Roots. What role earned him an Academy Award?
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drill sergeant in An Officer and a Gentleman
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Did Henry O. Tanner become “the dean of American painters” in turn-of-the-century London, Paris, or Madrid?
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Paris (his painting “Raising of Lazarus” was purchased for the Luxenbourg Palace.)
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What did George M. Horton plan to do with the profits from his 1839 novel, The Hope of Liberty?
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buy his freedom and go to Liberia
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Was Bill Cosby’s first hit TV show called Mission Impossible, I Spy, or The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ?
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I Spy(debuted in 1965)
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Who was the first African-American to win a singles title at Wimbledon: Althea Gibson or Arthur Ashe?
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Althea Gibson (won US Open and Wimbledon singles in ’57 and ’58) |
