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100
What is OLIVER'S CREOLE JAZZ BAND?
This was the name of the famous jazz band Louis Armstrong joined in Chicago in 1922.
100
What is AMERICAN SOCIETY OF FREE PERSONS OF COLOR?
This was the name of the first national Black convention that was organized by Richard Allen in 1830.
100
What is the NAT KING COLE SHOW?
This is the name of the first successful TV variety show starring a Black America
100
What is CLOTILDE?
This was the name of the last ship carrying slaves.
100
What is BECKWOURTH PASS?
This was the name of the route that James Beckwourth discovered in the early 1850s, helping pioneers and gold seekers get to California.
200
What is DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM?
This was the name of the first all-Black ballet company.
200
What is THE HOUSE BEHIND THE CEDARS?
This was the name of the first novel published by Charles W. Chestnut.
200
What is HUBERT JULIAN?
This was the name of the flamboyant pilot known as Black Eagle.
200
What is SOLID GOLD?
This was the name of the music and dance television show hosted by Marilyn McCoo.
200
What is THE PIPS?
This is the name of the singing group that accompanied Gladys Knight.
300
What is NATIONAL NEGRO NETWORK?
This was the name of the first Black American radio network.
300
What is JELLY ROLL BLUES?
This was the name of the first publication of jazz arrangements.
300
What is RUFUS?
This is the name of the group Chaka Khan was the lead singer for.
300
What is the UNDERGROUND RAILROAD?
This was the name of the network of hiding places which helped slaves to escape to freedom.
300
What is the AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY?
This was the name of the Society formed in 1817 to transport freeborn Black and emancipated slaves back to Africa.
400
What is RUN-DMC?
This was the name of the first hip-hop group to break into the mainstream American culture in the early 1980s.
400
What is CLOTEL (or THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER)?
This was the name of the first published novel written by a Black American, William Wells Brown.
400
What is HEATWAVE?
This was the name of the group that sang the platinum record "Boogie Nights" in 1977.
400
What is MUHAMMAD SPEAKS?
This was the name of the newspaper started by Malcolm X.
400
What is SHARECROPPING?
This was the name of the system in which Black Americans farmed someone else's land and received a split of the season's crops.
500
What is NEGRO DIGEST?
This was the name of the first magazine published by John H. Johnson.
500
What is GEORGIA, GEORGIA?
This was the name of the first screenplay produced by a Black American woman.
500
What is MAHATMA GANDHI?
This was the name of the Indian leader who became a model for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s non-violent and peaceful movement.
500
What is MAMBA'S DAUGHTERS?
This was the name of the play in which Ethel Waters starred on Broadway.
500
What is TENNESSEE TIGHERBELLES?
This was the name of Wilma Rudolph's relay team, which finished first at the 1960s Olympics?






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