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Who wrote, “Their Eyes Were Watching God”?

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Zora Neal Hurtson

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Who is the author of the first published novel, Clothel, by a Black American in 1833?

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Williams Wells Brown

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Known for his social and political views, who published The Souls of Black Folk in 1903

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W.E.B Dubios

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Who was the first Black American chosen as Miss America?

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Vanessa Williams

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In 1993, she became the first black to be honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature for six novels

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Toni Morrision

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What New York library houses rare collections of Black Culture?

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The Schomburg Center

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What Harlem theater is a showcase for Black Culture?

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The Apollo

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What author promoted her first novel, Mama, by contacting colleges and universities?

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Terry Wiliams

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Specializing in portraits of black leaders, Harlem Renaissance arts director Augustus Savage was what type of artist?

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Sculptor

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Who wrote the song Maple Leaf Rag

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Scott Joplin

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What musical instrument did jazz musician Grover Washington Jr. play?

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Saxophone

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What famed opera singer was known as “The Lady from Philadelphia”?

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Marian Anderson

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Who was the author of the hit play A Raisin in the Sun?

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Lorraine Hansberry

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Gordon Parks was voted “Photographer of the Year” in 1960 while working at what popular magazine?

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Life

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Who was the first black to perform at the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera House in 1966?

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Leotyne Price

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What is the name of the colorful fabric worn by African Royalty?

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Kente Cloth

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What form of music did Duke Ellington elevate into a serious art form?

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Jazz

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The first work authorized by a black female former slave was a book written by Harriett A. Jacobs in 1861. What was the name of this book?

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Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl

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Nominated for a National Book Award, what is Maya Angelou’s first autobiography?

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Who wrote the anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

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Harriet Beecher Steve

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What terms generally to the artistic and socio-cultural awakening among black people in the 1920” and early 1930’s?

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Harlem Renaissance

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Who was the first Black American to win a Pulitzer Prize?

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Gwendolyn Brooks

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Who was the first Black performer to receive a Tony Award?

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Hattie McDaniel

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Who was the first Black woman to be recognized as an award-winning composer

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Florence Prince

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What Black American artist created the Peanut Man character for Planet’s Peanuts?

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Elmer Stoner

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She is a dance choreographer, director, and producer who was involved with the television show Fame.

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Debbie Allen

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Available since 1884, what is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the US?

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Philadelphia Tribune Allen

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Who became the first African American female billionaire in 2004?

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Oprah Winfrey

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Who published the first Black American women’s in the US?

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Josephine Ruffin

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The North Star was a weekly newspaper founded by which abolitionist in 1847?

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Frederick Douglass

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What popular magazine did John H. Johnson begin in 1945?

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Ebony

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\What was the name of Marcus Garvey’s shipping company that was owned and operated entirely by Blacks?

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Black Star Line

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Who was the first Black American to appear on the cover of Vogue Magzine?

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Beverly Jones

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What labor activist who founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Cars Porters in 1925 initiated the 1963 March in Washington?

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A. Philip Randolph

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Who was the first Black American woman to have her one weekly television series, Julia?

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Diahann Carroll

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What organization helps fund over forty Black American Colleges

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United Negro College Fund

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What is the name of the institute that was founded b Booker T. Washington in 1881?

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Tuskee Inistitute

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Established in 1881, what college holds the distinction of being America’s oldest historically black college for women?

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Spelman College

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Who was the first Black American to receive a degree from Harvard University?

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Richard Greener

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Who was the first Black American to receive a doctorate in Physics from Yale University

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Patrick Healy

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Centenary Biblical Institute was established in Baltimore Maryland in 1865 by blacks after the Civil War. What school is this today?

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Morgan State University

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Who was refused admission to the University of Mississippi in 1961, see he had to be escorted to class by US Marshalls?

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James Merdith

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Dr. Charles Drew taught medicine at what famous Black college in Washington?

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Howard University

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Starting with $1.50 in cash, what college did Mary McLeod Bethune find?

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Bethune-Cookman College

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What artist recorded the songs, “I Will Always Love You”, “The Greatest Love of All”, and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody”?

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Whitney Houston

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What film did Denzel Washington become the second African American man to win an Academy Award for best actor?

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Training Day

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Which of Micheal Jackson’s albums is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the best-selling album of all time

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Thriller

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What is the name of the group that wrote the first rap song (Rapper’s Delight) to achieve commercial success in 1979?

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The Sugar Hill Game

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Who was the first black entertainer to sleep in the White House?

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Sammy Davis Jr.

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Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, he recorded the 1957 hit You Send Me.

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Sam Cooke

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Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, and Jason Mizzell made up a famous 80’s rap group. What was the name of the group?

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Run DMC

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She is known as the “queen of hip-hop soul”.

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Mary J. Blige

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This trumpet player was a vocalist who was the first to use a technique known as scat singing. What is his name?

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Louis Armstrong

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James Tod Smith is the given name of what Rap/actor?

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LL Cool J

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Billie Holiday’s life was subjected of what famous film?

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Lady Sings the Blues

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Who was the first Black American woman to win an Academy Award?

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Hattie McDaniel

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What famous musician’s trademark was puffing cheeks and a trumpet bell that pointed skywards?

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Dizzy Gillespie

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Who is called “The Queen of the Blues”?

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Dinah Washington

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Who is the Grammy award-winning Philadelphia quartet who sold over 4 million copies of their album, Cooley High Harmony?

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Boyz ll Men

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B.B. King is famous for what kind of music?

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Blues

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Noted as the greatest blues singer of the 1920s, what artist is known as the “empress of the blues”?

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Bessie Smith

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Who is known as the “queen of soul”?

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Aretha Franklin

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What anti-slavery newspaper was founded y Federick Douglass?

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The North Star

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In 1960, what did four black American students do at a whites-only lunch counter to protest against discrimination?

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Staged a “sit-in”

65
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What ancient statue in Egypt has the head of a human and the body of a lion?

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Spinx

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What does the acronym NAACP stand for?

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National Associations of the Advancement of Colored People

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After a trip to Mecca in 1964, this Muslim leader changed his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. Who was he?

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Malcolm X

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Who lost her teaching job as a result of a lawsuit against her for refusing to give up her seat in a railroad car marked as “White-Only”?

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Ida B Wells

69
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Who were the founders of the Black Pantehr’s Part?

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Huey P Newton and Bobby Seals

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What New York City neighborhood was known as the “Negro capital of the world”?

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Harlem

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In 1961, groups of black and white volunteers traveled together on bus trips to protest segregated bus terminals. y what name was this group known?

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Freedom Rivers

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Cleopatra was considered a beautiful queen in what country?

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Egypt

73
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What was the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s first church?

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Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

74
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Known as the “Father of Negro History” and created black history month.

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Carter G Woodson

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Who was the first black American to be depicted on a US postage stamp?

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Booker T Washington

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Who was the first black American awarded a Rhode’s Scholarship in 1940?

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Alin Leroy Locke

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During the Civil War, this black pilot sailed a Conferredate steamer out of Charleston, South Carolina, and delivered it to the Union Navy in 1862

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Robert Smalls

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The first African American to die in World War ll during the bombing of Clark Field in the Philippines.

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Robert H Brooks

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Who became the first Black American to hold of major during the Civil War?

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Martin Delany

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Who was the first Black American to graduate from West Point Military Academy and later become an advisor to the U.S. Government?

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Henry Flipper

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As well as freeing slaves, she served as a nurse, scout and spy for the Union Army.

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Harriet Tubman

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The first Black Americans to attend the US Naval Academy

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Henry Conyers

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In 1770, this fugitive slave was the first to die in the Boston Massacre and was called the first mayor of the American Revolution.

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Crispis Attucks

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Established by Congress in 1866 as the first peacetime all-black regiment in the regular U.S. Army, these soldiers were originally members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

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Buffalo Soldiers

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Who was the first Black American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court?

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Thurgood Marshall

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In 1972, who became the first woman to candidate for president of the United States?

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Shirley Chisholm

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In 1990, who was elected mayor of Washington DC, becoming the first Black American woman Mayer of a major US city?

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Sharon Pratt Kelly

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The celebration observed June 19th to honor the emancipation of African American slaves in the United States is caled?

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Juneteenth

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In 2009, he became the first African American U.S. Attorney General and head of the Justice Department

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Eric Holder Jr.

90
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Who was the first Back American national security advisor

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Colin Powell

91
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What militant group embodied the term “Black Power”?

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Black Panthers

92
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The first black female Secretary of State

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Condoleeza Rice

93
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What scientist experimented with injections of Vitamin C in cats and dogs in order to find a cure for epilepsy?

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Wendell Belfield

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These black soldiers were trained to become pilots in World War ll. They were mostly assigned to Italy where they destroyed enemy planes. Who were they?

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Tuskegee Airmen

95
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He invented the carbon fiber filament for the incandescent lightbulb, making electric lightning more piratical and affordable for the average household.

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Lewis Lattimer

96
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He created the thermostat

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Frederick Jones

97
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Lewis Lattimer prepared the drawings for his invention that ended up getting patented by Alexander Graham Bell

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The telephone

98
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Who invented the common dust mop

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T.W. Steward

99
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In 1872, this inventor received a patent for an apparatus for detaching horse form carriages

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T.J.Boyd

100
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This scientist used sweet potatoes to develop postage stamp glue

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George Washington Carver

101
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He was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry in the united States

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St. Elmo Brady

102
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Philadelphia and Massachusetts cobbler, Jan. E. Marzeliger invented what?

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Shoe lasting machine

103
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The ironing board was invented by what Black American woman?

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Sarah Boone

104
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Who invented the automatic car washer and directional signals for the automobile?

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Richard Spikes

105
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Who patented the envelope seal in 1897?

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R. W. Leslie

106
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Hyram S. Thomas was a chef who created what popular snack?

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Potato Chip

107
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Who invented the disposable syringe?

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Phil Brooks

108
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What breakthrough was preformed by Dr.Daniel Hale Williams

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Open Heart Surgery

109
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Matthew Henson was the first expectation to reach what destination?

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North Pole

110
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Who is responsible for inventing the method for converting gas into electricity?

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Meredith Guordine

111
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Who invented the burglar alarm?

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Louis Alexander

112
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Who was the first Black American astronaut to fly to space?

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Gulon Bluford, Jr.

113
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Who designed and patented the dustpan?

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L.P Ray

114
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Who invented the folding bed?

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L.C. Bailey

115
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Who invented the bread crumbling machine and constructed by what Black American?

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Joseph Lee

116
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The Holland Tunnel in New York was designed and constructed by what Black American?

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Joseph Parker

117
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Who mad the first practical shoe-making machine?

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Jan Matzelinger

118
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Who invented the pencil sharpener?

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J.L. Love

119
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Who invented the lawn mower?

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J.A. Burr

120
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Who invented the oil stove and the refrigerator?

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J. Standard

121
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Who invented the smallpox vaccine?

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Dr. Louis Wright

122
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She is a viral immunologist at the forefront of creating the Covid-19 vaccine

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Dr. Kizzemia Corbett

123
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Who invented the clothes dryer?

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G.T Sampson

124
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He invented the gas mask for firefighters and the stop light

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Garrett Morgan

125
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What mechanical engineer had over 50 patents, the most well know of his inventions included the ironing tale, and the lubricating cup.

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Elijah McCoey

126
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A. Miles patented what mechanical device used in many office buildings or skyscrapers?

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Elevator

127
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Who trained in France and received her pilot’s license in 1921, making her the first Black Woman to fly a plane?

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Bessie Coleman

128
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Who built the first model of steam power engine, but was unable to patent his work because he was a slave?

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Benjamin Bradley

129
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ho invented a life=saving device for coupling railroad cars?

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Andrew J Beard

130
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Who invented the door lock?

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A.W. Johnson

131
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Who invented the railroad signal

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A.B. Blackburn

132
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These sisters were born in 1980 and 1981. They are champions if Wimbledon and other major tennis tournaments. Name Them

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Venus and Serena Williams

133
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Who was the first lack African to play in the play in the National Hockey League?

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Val James

134
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Julius played basketball in the NBA in 1976 until he retire. For what NBA team did he plays

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Philadelphia 76ers

135
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What professional spot did Lee Elder play?

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Golf

136
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She is the first woman and woman of color to be the Vice President of the United States of America.

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Kamala Harris

137
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She is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S history

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Amdanda Gorman

138
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He is Georgia’s first black senator.

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Rapheal Warnock

139
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MSNBC President and first Black executive to run a major television news network

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Rashida Jones

140
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Princeton University’s first black valedictorian

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Nicholas Johnson

141
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She is the first black woman CEO in the NBA

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Cynthia Marshall

142
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Former track star who became and Olympic bobsledder and the first African American to win a gold medal at an olympic event for bobsledding

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Vonetta Flowers

143
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He is the first Black astronaut to live in the International Space Station for an extended stay

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Victor Glover

144
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This 13 year old launched a campaign called #1000BlackGirlBooks in November 2015, an international movement to collect and donate children’s that features as the lead characters.

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Marley Dias

145
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his former state represent has founded and organization dedicated ti fighting voter suppression. She also ran for Governor of the State of Georgia.

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Stacey Arbrams

146
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She is a four-time Grand Slam singles champion who is also the first woman to win successive Grand Slam singles titles since Serena Williams in 2015.

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Naomi Osaka

147
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This comedian is a native Philadelphian and she is the creator and star to the television show, Abbott Elementary.

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Quinta Brunson

148
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She is a four-time Grand Slam singles champion who is also the first woman to win successive Grand Slam singles titles since Serena Williams in 2015.

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Naomi Osaka

149
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The most decorated American gymnast and the third decorated gymnast in the world.

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Simone Biles

150
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highest earning Black musician in history.

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Beyonce Knowles

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