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What is RILEY?
This was B. B. King's first name.
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What is MALCOLM LITTLE?
This was Malcolm X's given name.
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What is SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT?
This was Robert Weaver's title when he became a presidential cabinet member.
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What is the AFRICAN MEETING HOUSE?
This was the first major building constructed by Black people in Boston.
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What is THE LIFE OF BUMPY JONES?
The movie Shaft was based on this.
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What is EDWARD KENNEDY ELLINGTON?
this was Duke Ellington's real name.
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What is BLACK MOSES?
This was Marcus Garvey's nickname.
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What is IT WAS CONTROLLED BY SLAVE MUTINEERS?
This was significant about the slave ship Amistad.
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What is PACE PHONOGRAPHICAL CORPORATION?
This was the first record company operated by an African American in America.
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What is EMMITT TILL?
This was the name of the 14-year-old boy who was brutally killed for allegedly whistling at a White woman.
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What is BOTANY AND AGRICULTURE?
This was George Washington Carver's major while in college.
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What is STAGECOACH MARY?
This was Mary Field's nickname.
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What is $3.40?
This was the amount of the first royalty check for Berry Gordy, Jr., founder of Motown Records.
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What is TO KILL OR DRIVE AWAY LEADING NEGROES AND ONLY LET THE HUMBLE AND SUBMISSIVE REMAIN?
This was the goal of the Ku Klux Klan.
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What is NICODEMUS?
This was the name of the all-Black town founded by W. H. Smith in Kansas.
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What is SATCHMO?
This was Louis Armstrong's nickname.
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What is CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY?
This was Muhammad Ali's given name at birth.
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What is DORA BABBIGE?
This was the birth name of international vaudeville performer Dora Dean.
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What is ARIZONA?
This was the last state to recognize Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a state holiday.
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What is JAMAICA TRAIN?
This was the name of the crude sugar refining process Norbert Rillieux's invention made obsolete.
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What is SARA BREEDLOVE WALKER?
This was Madam C. J. Walker's real name.
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What is COTTON BROKER?
This was Purvis' grandfather's occupation.
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What is APRIL 4, 1968?
This is the date when Martin Luther King was assassinated.
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What is TWELVE STROKES?
This was the margin of victory in Tiger Woods's Masters win in 1997.
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What is THE UNITED STATES HOTEL AND RESTAURANT?
This was the name of the enterprise Barney Ford formed in Nicaragua.
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