improvements of lives of blacks

Question 1

name a university for blacks

Answer 1

howard university

Question 2

what movement encouraged blacks to set up their own businesses?

Answer 2

black capitalist movement

Question 3

what did the black capitalist movement boycott and why?

Answer 3

chicago’s chain stores

so they employed black people

Question 4

name a black actor

Answer 4

paul robeson

Question 5

name a black writer

Answer 5

zora hurston

Question 6

name 2 black poets

Answer 6

langston hughes

countee cullen

Question 7

what place became a center of black pride / what was it known as?

Answer 7

harlem

harlem renaissance

Question 8

name a famous theatre in harlem

Answer 8

apollo theatre

Question 9

what does NAACP stand for?

Answer 9

national association for the advancement of coloured people

Question 10

what was the purpose of NAACP?

Answer 10

to end racial segregation and lynching

Question 11

how many branches and members of the NAACP by 1919?

Answer 11

300 branches

90,000 members

Question 12

who founded the UNIA?

Answer 12

marcus garvey

Question 13

what does UNIA stand for?

Answer 13

universal negro improvement association

Question 14

how many UNIA members by 1921?

Answer 14

over 1 million