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In 1975, who became the first African American to own andoperate a television station in the United States, WGPR-TV inDetroit, MI?
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William Venoid Banks
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Born in Geneva, KY, who became the owner of the first blackradio station in Detroit, in 1964?
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William Venoid Banks
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Who built San Francisco‟s first hotel and opened California‟sfirst public school?
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William Leidesdorff
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Who was the first African American appointed to the executiveboard of the Hopkinsville Chamber of Commerce and also thefirst to chair the Area Development District in Kentucky?
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Walton N. Smith
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What is the real name of Famous Amos?
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Wally Amos |
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What colonial era crop had a significant shortage of workerswhich demanded a large number of Africans to be imported tothe Americas?
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Tobacco |
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What was the full name of Hopkinsville native Ted Poston, NewYork Post reporter/author?
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Theodore RooseveltAugustus Major Poston
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What was the name of the enterprise Barney Ford formed inNicaragua?
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The United States Hotel andRestaurant
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While in New York, Ulysses Poston created what daily AfricanAmerican newspapers?
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The Negro World and TheNew York Contender
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In 1917 A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen founded aradical monthly magazine called what?
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The Messenger
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Who was a reporter for the New York Post and regarded asjournalism‟s “Father of Minorities”?
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Ted Poston |
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What Hopkinsville native was the first African American reporterfor The New York Post and covered many of the race disputesin the South?
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Ted Poston |
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Who was known as the “Dean of the Negro Newspapermen”?
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T. Thomas Fortune
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Paul Cuffe owned what kind of company?
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Ship building and shipping
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What was Madame C.J. Walker‟s real name?
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Sara Breedlove Walker
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Who was the founder of the National Negro FinanceCorporation?
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Robert Moton |
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Who became the first African American billionaire in 2001?
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Robert "Bob" Johnson
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Whose career with Kentucky Educational Television (KET)began in 1997 with the launch of the first statewide minorityaffairs program and continues as producer of KET's longestrunning public affairs program, Comment on Kentucky ?
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Renee Shaw |
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What successful businessman was also the founder of NegroFree Masonry?
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Prince Hall
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Available since 1884, what is the oldest continuously publishednewspaper in the United States ?
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Philadelphia Tribune
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In the late 19th century, what Hopkinsville businessman wasknown as "The Richest Negro in the South?"
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Peter Postel (or Postell), Sr.
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Patricia Garrison-Corbin, was the founder, chair, and chiefexecutive officer of what company, which became the firstAfrican American female-owned Wall Street financial servicescorporation?
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P. G. Corbin & Company
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Who became the first African American female billionaire in2004?
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Oprah Winifrey |
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What Hopkinsville native was elected to the Indiana House ofRepresentatives in 1956 and later became a journalist for theIndianapolis Recorder and Hoosier Herald ?
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Opal L. Tandy |
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Born in 1810, who was William Leidesdorff?
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One of the first BlackAmerican millionaires
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Dr. Louis C. Roudanez founded this first daily black newspaperin 1864. Name it.
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New Orleans Tribune |
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Created by John H. Johnson in 1943, what publication similar inform to Reader‟s Digest was later replaced by Black World?
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Negro Digest
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What was the name of the first magazine published by John H.Johnson?
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Negro Digest
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Generating revenues over $88 billion dollars annually, howmany black-owned businesses were there in the United Statesin 2002?
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nearly 1.2 million |
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What was the name of the first Black American radio network?
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National Negro Network |
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What Black American woman founded the National Trade andProfessional School for Women and Girls, Inc.?
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Nannie Helen Burroughs
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What occupation do Iman, Beverly Johnson, and Naomi Simshave in common?
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Modeling
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What company‟s popular commercial featured a tape recordingof Ella Fitzgerald‟s voice shattering a glass?
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Memorex |
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Who was the first Black network television anchor?
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Max Robinson |
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Who was the first Black American woman bank president?
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Maggie Lena Walker |
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Whose sales of innovative beauty products sold throughout theUnited States and the Caribbean led her to become the firstAfrican American female millionaire?
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Madam C.J. Walker
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Who is the current Chairman and CEO of Johnson PublishingCompany?
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Linda Johnson Rice |
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Who published the first Black American women‟s newspaper inthe US?
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Josephine Ruffin
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Who was the first Black American to have a seat on the NewYork Stock Exchange?
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Joseph L. Searles
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Established in 1945, this publisher of Ebony and Jetmagazines is the world's largest black-owned publishingcompany. Name it.
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Johnson Publishing Company |
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Baltimore‟s newspaper, the Afro-American, was founded bywhat former slave? |
John H. Murphy |
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The Johnson Publishing Company was founded in Chicago in1945 by what person?
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John H. Johnson |
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Who founded the magazine Ebony ?
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John H. Johnson |
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Freedom's Journal , the first black newspaper published inAmerica, was founded in 1827 in New York City by whom?
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John B. Russwurm andSamuel E. Cornish
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What company has a successful series of televisioncommercials that started in 1974 and features Bill Cosby?
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Jell-O |
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In 1981 Pam Johnson became the first black woman to controlwhich mainstream daily publication?
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Ithaca Journal
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Who was the founder and president of the first Black Americannational labor union in 1869?
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Isaac Myers |
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Opal Tandy, journalist and Hopkinsville native, purchased thenewspaper Hoosier Herald and changed its name to what?
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Indiana Harold |
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Who was the first Black American to become captain of anAmerican merchant marine ship?
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Hugh Mulzac
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During the first two-thirds of the seventeenth century what twocountries dominated the African slave trade?
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Holland And Portugal |
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What is the name of Oprah Winfrey‟s TV production company?
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Harpo Productions |
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What did Madam C.J. Walker invent in 1905 that was sold doorto-door?
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Hair care prepartation products |
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Returning to Kentucky after serving in the Union Army duringthe Civil War, Peter Postel, Sr. opened what type of business?
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Grocery Store |
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What periodical was the first black newspaper published in theUnited States?
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Freedom's Journal |
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The North Star was a weekly newspaper founded by whichabolitionist in 1847?
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Frederick Dougglas |
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What company was the largest slave-trading operation in thesouth?
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Franklin and Arnold |
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What 1915 natural disaster ruined crops and homes of manyfarmers in the Mississippi Valley region?
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flooding |
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What was the name of Bill Cosby‟s first bestselling book?
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Fatherhood |
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What magazine is called “The Magazine of Today‟s BlackWoman”?
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Essence |
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What country secured a monopoly over the slave trade to theNew World in 1713?
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England |
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What famous Black American was a reporter on the CBStelevision program 60 Minutes?
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Ed Bradley |
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What popular magazine did John H. Johnson begin in 1945?
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Ebony |
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Who founded the publication Black Enterprise in 1970?
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Earl G. Graves Sr. |
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Who was the founder of the first African-American femaleownedWall Street financial services corporation.
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Patricia Garrison-Corbin
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Blues artist Mamie Smith sold nearly a million copies of whatsong in 1920?
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Crazy Blues |
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From 1913 to 1915 price reductions of what crop hurt theSouthern farmers and brought on an economic depression?
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Cotton |
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What record company helped bring Mahalia Jackson‟s gospelmusic to a large audience?
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Columbia Records |
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Bernard Shaw was the Chief Washington Correspondent forwhat major television station?
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CNN |
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This person was born in Christian County, Kentucky, in 1874,was the son of former slaves, saved enough money to attendschool, became a school teacher, founded three newspapers,was a painter, a poet, and a lawyer. Who was he?
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Claybron W. Merriweather
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Where was Ephraim Poston, owner and editor of the newspaperHopkinsville Contender , born?
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Clarksville,TN |
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For what is Wally Amos famous?
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Chocolate Chip Cookies |
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In 1954, Mahalia Jackson began a weekly radio program. Onwhat radio network was the show aired?
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CBS |
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Who founded the National Negro Business League in 1900?
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Booker T. Washington |
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What was the name of Marcus Garvey‟s shipping company thatwas owned and operated entirely by Blacks?
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Black Star Line |
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Who is Mary Ann Shadd Cary?
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Black Newspaper Woman |
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Who was the first Black man to appear on the cover of Lifemagazine?
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Billy Eckstine
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Name at least two black 1980s television show producers
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Bill Cosby, Tim Reid, DebbieAllen, Quincy Jones, andKeenan Ivory Wayans
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In 1924, Walter White published a best-selling novel The Fire inthe Flint , which covered what subject?
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Bigotry |
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Who was the first Black American to appear on the cover ofVogue magazine?
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Beverly Johnson |
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In 1991, what became the first black-controlled company to belisted on the New York Stock Exchange?
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BET |
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From 1893 until the 1950s, Nancy Green served as the world'sfirst living trademark as the image what product?
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Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix |
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What company was founded in Harlem in 1940 to provideopportunities for black actors, writers and directors as well astechnicians?
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American Negro Theater |
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Created by Rodney J. Reynolds in 1994, this magazine thatfocuses on black history and culture.
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American Legacy |
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In 1910 about fifty percent of black labor force was employed inwhat industry?
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Agriculture |
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Slaves held a variety of tasks such as skilled craftsmen,trappers, nurses, and house servants. What work did themajority of slaves perform?
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Agricultural labor in theSouthern colonies (Theyworked in the fields.)
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What labor activist who founded the Brotherhood of SleepingCar Porters in 1925 initiated the 1963 March on Washington?
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A. Philip Randolph
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In the agricultural field some former slaves were sharecroppers.What was meant by this term?
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A tenant farmer would givehis share of crops raised tothe landlord as rent
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Blues vocalist, song writer, and guitarist John Brim also ownedwhat businesses in Chicago?
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a dry cleaning business anda record store
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Ed Bradley was a member of what news team?
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60 minutes |
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What was the name of Eddie Murphy first movie which grossedover 100 million dollars and propelled him into movie stardom?
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48 hours |
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By 2002, revenues for black-owned businesses rose to whatamount, accounting for 5% of all nonfarm businesses in theUnited States? |
$88.6 billion |
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In what year did A. Philip Randolph organize the union,Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters?
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1925 |
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One of the first black organized labor unions, the AssociatedColored Employees of America was formed in what year?
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1917 |
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Northern industries experiencing an economic boom duringWorld War I contributed to the Great Migration beginning inwhat year?
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1915 |
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In what year did Maggie Lena Walker become the first BlackAmerican woman bank president?
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1903 |
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Born a slave in North Carolina, Peter Postel, Sr.'s estate waslater valued at $500,000 as owner of a merchant business inHopkinsville. In what year was he born?
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1841 |
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In what year did the first African indentured servants arrive atJamestown, Virginia?
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1619 |
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Before A. Philip Randolph established a successful labor unionfor black train porters, approximately how much money werethese workers paid per day?
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$2 |
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Who was the first Black American woman to have her ownweekly television series, Julia?
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Diahann Carroll
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What organization helps fund over forty Black Americancolleges?
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United Negro College Fund |
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What is the name of the institute that was founded by Booker T.Washington in 1881?
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Tuskegee Institute
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What Austin Peay State University building was named for acivil rights activist and a pastor of the St. John MissionaryBaptist Church in Clarksville, TN?
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the Wilbur N. Daniel AfricanAmerican Culture Center |
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Under what name was North Carolina Central Universityfounded in1910 by James E. Shephard?
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The National ReligiousTraining School of Durham
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Originally named Ohio African University, Wilberforce Universityin Ohio was founded in 1843 by members of what church?
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the Methodist Episcopalchurch
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Raising $150,000 over seven years, this choir from Nashvilletraveled around the world singing spirituals and work songs toraise money for their college. What was the name of the choir?
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the Fisk Jubilee Singers(from Fisk University)
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In 1995 and 2001 respectively, Dr. Ruth J. Simmons becamethe first black president and black woman president of two toprankedcolleges. One is a “Seven Sisters” school, and the otheris an Ivy League school. Name the institutions.
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Smith College(Northampton,Massachusetts - 1995) andBrown University(Providence, Rhode Island -2001)
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Elaine Farris became the first African American schoolsuperintendent in Kentucky in 2004 over what school district?
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Shelby County |
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Established in 1881, what college holds the distinction of beingAmerica's oldest historically black college for women?
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Spelman College |
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Who presented a bill to Congress in 1968 that would enableBlack Americans to control education, business, and socialservices within Black American communities?
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Roy Innis |
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Cheyney University in Pennsylvania was funded by a will fromwhat Philadelphia Quaker in 1832?
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Richard Humphreys |
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Who was the first Black American to receive a degree fromHarvard University?
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Richard Greener |
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Born in Louisville, KY, who was the first African Americanstudent to be accepted at Austin Peay State University inClarksville, Tennessee?
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Reverend Wilbur N. Daniel
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Who was the first Black American to receive a doctorate inPhysics from Yale University?
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Patrick Healy
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In 1865, Fisk University was founded in what city?
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Nashville,Tennesse |
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Centenary Biblical Institute was established in Baltimore,Maryland, in 1865 by blacks after the Civil War. Under whatname does it operate today?
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Morgan State University |
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What college, originally established as August Institute, wasorganized by three ministers in the basement of a Baptistchurch in 1867?
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Morehouse College
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From what college did Martin Luther King, Jr. graduate?
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Morehouse College
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The University of the District of Columbia was organized by freeblack women in 1865 under what name?
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Miner Normal School
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In 1904 the Daytona Normal and Industrial School in DaytonaBeach, Florida was founded by whom?
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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Born in Trigg County, KY, what first African American student atMurray State University had to be escorted to class by thepolice and the university president?
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Mary Ford Holland |
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Made to what is now Alcorn State University, the first land grantfor a black college was made in 1871 in what in city?
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Lorman, Mississippi
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Founded in 1886, what Kentucky university was originallynamed the State Normal School for Colored Persons?
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Kentucky State University
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There is one Historically Black College and University (HBCU)in Kentucky. Name it.
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Kentucky State University
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In 1993, what 13-year old from Sturgis, KY, became the firstAfrican American student to win the Kentucky EducationAssociation President's Spelling Bee in Frankfort, KY?
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Josh Brown |
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Who was the first Black American woman president of SpelmanCollege?
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http://hopkinsvilleky.us/services/human_relations/docs/Trivia_Bowl_Revised_Questions.pdf |
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Who was the first Black American to graduate from college?
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John Russwurm
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Josh Brown correctly spelled what word in 1993 to become thefirst African American to win the Kentucky EducationAssociation President's Spelling Bee?
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jodhpurs
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Who was the first black student to be admitted to the Universityof Mississippi in 1962?
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James Merideth |
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Who was refused admission to the University of Mississippi in1961, forcing US Marshals to escort him to class?
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James Merideth |
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Christian County native Elder Watson Diggs was the firstAfrican American graduate from what university's School ofEducation?
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Indiana State University
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Where did young Dr. Carter G. Woodson learn his ABC‟s?
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In farm fields
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In 1913 Delta Sigma Theta sorority was formed at whatuniversity?
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Howard |
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What is the name of the famous Black college in Washington,D.C. where Dr. Charles Drew taught medicine?
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Howard University
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Who was the first African American woman admitted to theUniversity of Louisville Law School?
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Hortense Houston Young
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Receiving a doctorate in education in 1960, who was the firstAfrican American to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky?
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Horace E. Tate
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The United Negro College Fund was established in 1944 toprovide financial support to students who are enrolled in whateducational institutions?
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Historically black collegesand universities (or HBCUs)
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W.E.B. Du Bois was the first Black American to receive a Ph.D.from what prestigious university?
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Harvard University
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Rhodes Scholar and Hopkinsville native Raymond Burseattended what law school graduating in 1978?
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Harvard Law School
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Hampton University in Virginia was originally established underwhat name in 1868?
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Hampton Normal andAgricultural Institute
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What state has the most black institutions of higher learning?
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Georgia |
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What US federal government agency founded over 4000schools, including Howard University?
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Freedmen‟s Bureau
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Coppin State College in Baltimore, Maryland was established in1900 and named after what slave who became one of theleading black women educators of the nineteenth century?
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Fanny Jackson Coppin
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Born in Falmouth, KY, what man developed the Black ManThink Tank and is the national president of the John D. O'BryantThink Tank for Black Professionals in Higher Education onPredominantly White Campuses (JDOTT)?
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Eric P. Abercrumbie
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What Christian Couny native was a founding member of KappaAlpha Psi, established in 1911, served as the fraternity'spresident during the first six years and was awarded theorganization's first Laurel Wreath in 1924?
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Elder Watson Diggs
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At age 49, she became the first African American schoolsuperintendent in Kentucky. Name her.
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Elaine Farris
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Having studied eight languages, this pastor, author, andmember of the Kentucky Board of Education served in the U.S.Army as a multilingual interpreter and taught foreign languages?
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Dr. Clyde B. Akins, Sr.
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In 2009, who became the first African American male schoolsuperintendent in Kentucky?
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Donald Smith
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In 2009, who became the dean of the University of Kentucky(UK) College of Law, making him the state's first AfricanAmerican law school dean since the desegregation of Kentuckyhigher education?
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David A. Brennen
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Name 2 of the 4 colleges that make up the Atlanta UniversityCenter, the largest contiguous consortium of African-Americansin higher education in the United States.
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Clark Atlanta University,Spelman College,Morehouse College, andMorehouse School ofMedicine
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What county had the first school libraries for Kentucky Negrochildren in 1892 and the libraries first for Negro teachers in1898?
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Christian County, KY
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In 1981 Jewel Plummer Cobb became the first black womanpresident of what major university?
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California State University atFullerton
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Who was the principal at Tuskegee Institute who recruited andhired George Washington Carver?
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Booker T. Washington
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Who championed the principle of industrial/vocational educationfor black people?
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Booker T. Washington
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What great Black American educator influenced MarcusGarvey‟s commitment to self improvement?
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Booker T. Washington
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Mary McLeod Bethune practiced the philosophy of whatprominent educator?
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Booker T. Washington
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Starting with $1.50 in cash, what college did Mary McLeodBethune found?
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Bethune-Cookman College
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In 1866, what library was the first desegregated library inKentucky and the South?
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Berea College Library
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What Kentucky college was integrated with black and whitestudents in 1858, but discontinued the biracial mix in 1904?
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Berea College
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Angus A. Burleigh was the first adult African American to attendand graduate from what Kentucky college?
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Berea College
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Who was the first Black president of the school board in Atlanta,Georgia?
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Benjamin E. Mays
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This, the first and only black college consortium, was founded in1929. Name it.
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Atlanta University System
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This graduate of Howard University Medical School was the firstAfrican American woman to pass the medical boards andbecome a doctor in Kentucky. Name her.
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Artishia Garcia Gilbert
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Born free and later sold into slavery after his father's death, whobecame the first adult African American to graduate from BereaCollege?
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Angus A. Burleigh
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Charles W. Anderson is credited with a number of early CivilRights measures including what Act which provided funding forAfrican Americans to seek higher education out of statebecause Kentucky enforced higher education segregation laws?
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Anderson-Mayer State AidAct
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In 1908, what was the first black sorority founded at HowardUniversity?
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Alpha Kappa Alpha
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In what state is Tuskegee Institute located?
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Alabama
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Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, originally named AshmunInstitute in honor of the first governor of Liberia, was founded bya pastor of what church in 1854?
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a Presbyterian church
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In what year did the U.S. Supreme Court order schoolintegration?
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1955
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Xavier University was the first black Catholic college. It openedin New Orleans, Louisiana in 1915 as a high school. In whatyear was the college department added?
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1925
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In what year were the post-Civil War colleges Clark, Claflin,Dillard, and Tougaloo founded?
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1869
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The African Methodist Episcopal Church founded EdwardWaters College in Live Oak, Florida in what year?
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1866 |
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Fisk University was established in Nashville, Tennessee as aliberal arts institution in what year?
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1865 |
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Cheyney State, the oldest Black American college, was foundedin what year?
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1837 |
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How many historically black colleges and universities are theretoday in the United Sates?
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105 |
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How did Barney Ford make his fortune?
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As a hotel and restaurantowner
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