Dr. Maulana Karenga
Whoopi Goldberg
Sammy Davis Jr.
“Boy from Beale Street” (from his days as a Memphis disk jockey in the 1940s)
Negro History Week
Colin Powell
the Harlem Renaissance (which emerged after World War I)
George Washington Carver
Thriller
Oprah Winfrey (Her show debuted in 1986.)
Maya Angelou
Brown v. Board
Vanessa Williams
James Baldwin, in 1953 (The novel is based partly on his experience as a Pentecostal preacher.)
Ntozake Shange
the Middle Passage
The Chronic
Underground Railroad
Tuskegee Airmen
Rosa Parks
Tyler Perry
Sally Hemings
Beloved (Published in 1970, The Bluest Eye was her first novel.)
The Little Rock Nine
Hattie McDaniel
Who was the slave woman who is believed to have borne Thomas Jefferson at least four children?
Who was the only other black actress to win the Academy Award's Best Supporting Actress Oscar since Hattie McDaniel in 1939? (Hint: won the Oscar for her role in the movie Ghost)
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What name was given to the period of cultural rebirth that took place in Harlem, New York City?
Long Beach, California native and rapper Snoop Dogg shot to fame after being featured on what 1992 album with Dr. Dre?
Who was the first African-American to serve as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
Who wrote the Broadway choreo-poem play, 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf'?
In 1940, I became the first African American actress to win an academy award.
What was Black History Month originally called?
Who is the creator of Kwanzaa?
What author gained national recognition with his novel Go Tell It on the Mountain?
B.B. King is one of the greatest blues performers of the 20th century. What do the letters “B.B.” stand for?
Who was the first African-American Miss America?
Who was the first African American woman to host a nationally syndicated TV talk show?
What was the nickname for the first all-Black 332d Fighter Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps, which escorted Allied bombers through European airspace on 1,578 missions during World War II?
What Michael Jackson album won eight Grammy Awards in 1983?
What was the informal system that helped slaves escape to the North during the mid-1800s?
Who recently gave a million dollar donation to the NAACP? (Hint: he owns his own film production company)