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32 Cards in this Set
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What is the name of the trailblazing black filmmaker that was also a part of the Homestead Movement? |
Oscar Micheaux |
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What is the name of the first feature film by an African American |
The Homesteaders |
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Micheaux wrote a novel, which he sold door to door entitled |
The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer |
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Name the one genre of the more than 40 films produced by Micheaux |
Western, Mysteries, and gangsters |
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What black artist has been considered one of the most important artist of the 20th century? |
Romare Bearden |
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He created a landmark series of collages and watercolors based on Homer's classic work of Western literature called |
The Odyssey |
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In what style does he depict aspect of black culture |
Cubist style |
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He was a songwriter and designer for what dance company |
Alvin Ailey Dance Company |
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What is the title of the Negro National Anthem? |
Lift Every Voice and Sing |
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It was first publicly performed as a poem as part of a celebration of Lincoln's Birthday on February 12, 1900. Who performed this poem |
500 school children at the segregated Stanton School |
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The words to the song were written by |
James Weldon Johnson |
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What is the traditional way of honoring this anthem |
by stopping all activity and standing |
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Who is the African American author of "I know why the Caged Bird Sings?' |
Maya Angelou |
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Who is the Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning African American author of "The Bluest Eye", "Sons of Solomon", and "Beloved" |
Toni Morrison |
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Poet, novelist and African American playwright who is best known for the poem "Negro speak of Rivers. " |
Langston Hughes |
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Who is the folkorist and anthropologist African American author of "Their eyes were watching God" |
Zora Neale Hurston |
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Today's prosperous Central Park in New York City was built on the site of this once prominent black community |
Seneca Villiage |
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Seneca Village was noted as what |
The only community of African American property owners for the 19th century |
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what happened when the City governments claimed the land under the right of eminent domain |
They evicted the residents and razed their homes to create central park, seneca village disappeared for over a century |
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First settled in the 1820s the settlement became gathering place after what event |
slavery coming to an end in New York State on July 4, 1827 |
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This town was one of the meccas of Black business; blacks created entrepreneurial opportunities for themselves, which housed an impressive business center that included banks, hotels, cafes, clothiers, movie theaters, and contemporary homes. Name this town |
Greenwood Section of Tulsa, Oklahoma aka Black Wall Street |
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African Americans lost their lives and more than 9,000 were left homeless. What happened? |
This small town was attacked, looted, and literally burned to the ground by angry white mob beginning in 1921 |
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Residents enjoyed many luxuries that their white neighbors did not. Give examples |
indoor plumbling and remarkable school system that superiorly educated black children |
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Black Wall Street was also known by what other name |
Little Africa |
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This Black city was the cultural equivalent to Harlem during the height of its renaissance |
Bronzeville, Southside Chicago aka Black Metropolis |
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southern black emigrated via Illinois Central Railroad during a time period called |
The Great Migration |
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barely 50 years after Emancipation, freed slaves and their descendants bought land and were thriving on the banks of Buffalo Bayou |
Freedmen's Town, Houston, TX |
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was home to Houston's black doctors, lawyers, and dentist with ore that its share of ministers and teachers and boasted more than 400 black businesses |
Little Harlem |
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Who was the shy Texan who grew up and established his own dance repertory company in 1958 |
Alvin Ailey |
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He achieved critical acclaim with early performances of what eventually became his signature dance. Name this performance |
Revelations-1960 |
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Name the type of music used in performing, Revelations |
Spiritual or Gospel |
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He received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from what institute of higher learning |
Princeton University |
