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115 Cards in this Set
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Who was the first known Negro sculptor?
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Eugene Warbourg
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Who painted the Martin Luther King, Jr. mural that is on display in Washington D.C.?
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Don Miller
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Who was the first African American to be recognized as a portrait painter?
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Joshua Johnson
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Where is the National Center of Afro-American art?
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Boston, Massachusetts
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The 1960s flowering of literary and artistic talents among African Americans brought forth names such as Don Lee, Amir Baraka (aka Leroi Jones), Sonya Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Alvin Ailey and many others. What was the name given to this creative period?
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Black Arts Movement
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Who organized the 1941 exhibition, "Afro-American Art on Both Continents," which included the works of Romare Bearden and the Delaney Brothers?
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Alain Locke
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Who is the socio-political cartoonist who gives insight into the Cultural Revolution in the carton “The Boondocks” is?
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Aaron McGruder
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What folk artist lived to be 101 years old grew up on a plantation in Louisiana and begin her career as an artist at the age of 53?
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Clementine Hunter
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Who painted Grand Canyon of the Yellow-Stone from the Hayden Point in 1891?
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Grafton Tyler Brown
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At what university was the first major black art gallery established?
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Howard University
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The first black ballet dancer with the New York City Ballet, he founded the Dance Theatre of Harlem in 1970. Who was he?
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Arthur Mitchell
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Who won a Tony Award as the choreographer for the movie Fame and is a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
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Debbie Allen
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Give the name of the person in San Antonio who painted the arch over the New Braufels Street Bridge.
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George Clark, Sr.
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What San Antonio couple’s artwork has been on display in the San Antonio Art Museum and the Smithsonian?
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Dr. Harmon Kelly and Harriet Kelly
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The first black ballet dancer with the New York City Ballet, he founded the Dance Theatre of Harlem in 1970. Who was he?
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Arthur Mitchell
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Name the painter who was paralyzed during World War I but continued to paint with one hand.
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Horace Pippin
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Name the play for which Lorraine Hansberry, the first African American woman to write a Broadway play, became famous for.
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Raisin in the Sun
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Name the dancer and choreographer who formed his own Dance Company?
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Alvin Ailey
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Who was the recipient of the Harmon Bronze Award in Fine Arts in 1929, and sculpted “Pearl and Chester?
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Sargent Johnson
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A colonial slave, who was the first known American black to have received training as an artist?
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Scipio Moorehead
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What did Harry Belafonte win an Emmy for in 1959, becoming the first Black to win this prestigious award?
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Tonight With Belafonte
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How many Emmy Awards has Oprah Winfrey won? For the Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest-rated talk show in television history.
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25
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In 1954 she was the first black actress to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for the film Carmen Jones. Name her.
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Dorothy Dandridge
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He played the character “Fiddler” in the television mini-series Roots in 1977. Five years later he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in An Officer and A Gentleman. What is his name?
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Louis Gossett, Jr.
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The film Glory was based on America’s first unit of black soldiers in the Civil War. Who won the award for Best Supporting Actor of this 1989 historical film?
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Denzel Washington
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The Best Supporting Actress award for this 1990 thriller/fantasy film went to a comedienne. Who is she and what film did she appear in?
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Whoopi Goldberg –Ghost
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In 1972 Cicely Tyson was nominated for Best Actress for her performance in what movie?
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Sounder
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She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues. Who is she?
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Diana Ross
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In 2003 she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in the film Chicago. Who is she?
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Queen Latifah
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Who is the founder of Black Entertainment Television?
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Bob Johnson
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In what year did the Cosby Show debut?
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1984
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Name the first African American to receive an Oscar.
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Hattie McDaniel (Gone With the Wind)
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What movie did Sidney Poitier win an Oscar for Best Actor to become the first African American actor to achieve this?
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Lilies of the Field
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In this tribute to 1960’s R&B groups, Robert Townsend acted in and directed this movie. Name it.
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The Five Heartbeats
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Who produced and directed the television series, “A Different World?”
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Debbie Allen
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Who was the voice of Darth Vader’s in the movie “The Empire Strikes Back?”
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James Earl Jones
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Name the 1947 Disney film the NAACP tried to stop because of the stereotyped character of Uncle Remus.
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Song of the South
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Who is the founder of the black network channel TV One?
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Catherine L. Hughes
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This noted songstress and movie star includes in her film credits: Broadway Rhythm, Cabin in the Sky, Till Clouds Roll By, and the Wiz who is she?
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Lena Horne
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Who wrote and directed Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever?
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Spike Lee
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In the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, the two opposing armies halted their fighting for one hour to listen to an African-American singer. After the last song, the combatants resumed their endeavors to destroy one another. What was the name of this famous singer?
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Paul Robeson
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Who was the author of the freedom song "We Shall Overcome”
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Herb Boyd
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Stevie Wonder, blind writer, composer, and singer helped make what national holiday?
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MLK day
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bandleader known as "Pops" or "Satchmo".
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Louis Armstrong
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"the Godfather of Soul"?
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James Brown
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Name the first female Rap vocal trio
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Salt and Pepper
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Why is WGPR-TV, Detroit important?
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First black owned tv station
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What female singer recorded more number one hits than anyone else in the 1990s?
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Mariah Carey
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George Walker, the first African American Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music is a well known what?
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Composer & Pianist
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slave songs that combined African rhythms with Biblical scripture?
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Spirituals (Among the most popular are “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”, “Go Down River,” and “Deep River”)
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The hymn, "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," by James Weldon Johnson, was meant to celebrate whose birthday?
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Abraham Lincoln
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Lionel Richie was once the lead singer for which musical group?
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The Commodores
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Who became the first black (female) musician to earn a Masters degree in music?
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Nora Douglas Holt
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Who is affectionately called “Lady Day”
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Billie Holiday
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What Black opera star was refused the right to sing in Constitution Hall, Washington D.C. in 1939?
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Marian Anderson
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Name the father of ragtime music.
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Scott Joplin
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Name the Academy Award winner for the soundtrack to the movie Shaft.
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Issac Hayes
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What singer wrote “Yes We Can” in honor of Barack Obama and some consider it the song that catapulted the campaign.
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Will I Am
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What was the name of Josephine Baker’s most famous dance?
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Charleston
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Who is known as the “Queen of Soul” a title she won in 1967?
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Aretha Franklin
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In 1947 he was the first black to join the major leagues since Moses Fleetwood Walker had played in 1885. Who was he? What was the name of the team that he played for?
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Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers
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She was the first black female tennis player to win major tournaments in the 1950s. In 1971 she was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. What was her name?
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Althea Gibson
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Tiger Woods' Middle Name
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Eldrick
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At the 1960 Olympics in Rome, this sprinter was the first American woman to win three Gold Medals. Who was she?
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Wilma Rudolph
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In 1960 this basketball player was a center that helped his U.S. Olympic team win a Gold Medal. He became an all-star in the NBA with nearly 10,000 assists during his career. His nickname is the “Big O”. Who is he?
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Oscar Robertson
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How many Gold Medals did track and field athlete Carl Lewis win in his career?
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9
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She was known for her colorful outfits and six-inch long fingernails. She won Gold and Silver medals at the Olympics. Who was she? What was her nickname?
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Florence Griffith-Joyner, Flo-Jo
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He was the first black prizefighter to win the world heavyweight championship.
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Jack Johnson
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Who overcame crippling polio to win three gold medals in the 1960 summer Olympic games?
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Wilma Rudolph
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What famous baseball star became the first black manager of a major league baseball team?
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Frank Robinson
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Who is Violet Palmer?
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NBA Female Referee
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Who was the three time Super Bowl champion player who returned to his Florida alma mater to receive his bachelor's degree in 1996?
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Emmitt Smith
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In the 1996 Olympics, who became the first athlete ever to win both the 200 and 400 meter races?
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Michael Johnson
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Who was the only father and son duo to win All Star MVP Awards in Baseball?
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Ken Griffey Jr. and Sr.
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Who coached his Arkansas team to the 1994 NCAA basketball Championship viewed by President Bill Clinton?
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Nolan Richardson
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Which two athletes have graced the cover of “Sports Illustrated” Magazine more times than anyone?
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Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan
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Name the athlete who defied Hitler’s theory of black inferiority by winning four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics.
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Jesse Owens, 1936
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What year were the Harlem Globetrotters organized?
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1927
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He rode six horses to victory in a single day of racing at Washington park, Chicago, on July 10, 1891
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Monk Overton
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Name the first and only African American race car driver to win the NASCAR Winston Cup. The film “Greased Lightning” is based on his life.
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Wendell Oliver Scott
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Who was the first African American honored with a holiday?
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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. The famous case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka (Kansas) declaring racial segregation unconstitutional was the finale of a legal strategy commonly attributed to the heroic background work of one law school professor and legal activist who trained Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and others.
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Charles Hamilton Houston
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Booker T. Washington's theory of racial uplift was based on a 1890s social philosophy which favored the social stratification of races. What was the label given to this philosophy?
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Social Darwinism, or survivors of the fittest as rulers
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Alex Haley, the author of both Roots and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, is one of the few writers with two enduring culturally significant works. Almost single- handedly Haley popularized a field of historical research known as what?
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Genealogy
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Given the name "Isabella" and speaking Dutch from a young age, the first Black female professional anti-slavery orator, she has been given credit for a speech in English she never made. What was her stage name and what was the title of a litany written in her honor?
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Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman"
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What did the 13th Amendment of the United States ratify?
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Prohibition of Slavery
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What leader and activist from the country of India deeply influenced Martin Luther King?
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Gandhi
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What was the first American Colony to abolish slavery?
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Vermont
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What year was the importation of slaves outlawed in the U.S.?
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1808
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What African American male developed the theory of the talent tenth.
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W.E.B DuBois
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First Negro History Week
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1926
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Why did Carter Woodson choose February as the month to celebrate Negro History Week?
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He believed that Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, both born in February, had the greatest influence in black Americans.
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What do the letters “UNCF' stand for?
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United Negro College Fund
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What U.S. Supreme Court decision declared school segregation unconstitutional?
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (in 1954)
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Who first taught the principle that “Black is beautiful”?
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Malcolm X (who believed that self-reliance is the means to success)
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What name was given to the escape system used by slaves to find safety in the North?
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The Underground Railroad (with “stations” along the way and “conductors” who assisted the slaves)
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In the 1960s, what form of civil rights protest began with a long bus ride through the South?
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The Freedom Rides (The riders challenged segregation in interstate bus travel)
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What name was given to people who boldly spoke out or wrote against slavery?
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Abolitionists
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Who founded the first major African American national union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters?
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A. Philip Randolph
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During the nineteenth century, how many states had laws prohibiting interracial marriage?
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38
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Which state east of the Mississippi was the first to give African American women the right to vote, in 1913?
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Illinois
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How many interstate bus terminals were desegregated through the efforts of the Freedom Riders?
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120
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In what year did Congress abolish slavery?
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1865
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Who is often called “The Father of the Civil Rights Movement”?
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Frederick Douglass
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Who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)?
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Marcus Garvey
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What decision made by the Supreme Court in 1857 ruled that “ Negros have no rights which white men are bound to respect.”
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Dred Scott Decision 1857
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What is the name of the man who was President of the San Antonio Branch of the NAACP, the Texas State NAACP, and also the National Medical Association?
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Dr. C.A. Whittier
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Who was the first African American admitted to the Bar in San Antonio to practice law in 1920?
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Mr. Oliver Johnson, Esquire
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Which school in the San Antonio Independent School District is named for an African American woman principal?
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Mrs. Bella Cameron
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Name the African American woman who because of her service to Girl Scouts has a San Antonio Center named in her honor?
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Mrs. Katie McKinney Jones
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What is the name of the first African American woman to serve as President of the San Antonio Fiesta Commission?
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Mrs. Gloria Wilson Ray
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What San Antonio building is named for an African American minister who is a former member of City Councilman?
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Claude Black Center
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What Texas state office building is located on Cherry Street in San Antonio and is named for a black man?
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Garlington Jerome Sutton
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What was the first southern city to integrate all of its public facilities?
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San Antonio, Texas
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Who is the medical doctor for whom apartments on Medical Drive are named?
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Dr. Charles C. Andrews
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