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What is OLIVER'S CREOLE JAZZ BAND?
This was the name of the famous jazz band Louis Armstrong joined in Chicago in 1922.
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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.
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What is the NAT KING COLE SHOW?
This is the name of the first successful TV variety show starring a Black America
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What is CLOTILDE?
This was the name of the last ship carrying slaves.
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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.
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What is DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM?
This was the name of the first all-Black ballet company.
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What is THE HOUSE BEHIND THE CEDARS?
This was the name of the first novel published by Charles W. Chestnut.
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What is HUBERT JULIAN?
This was the name of the flamboyant pilot known as Black Eagle.
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What is SOLID GOLD?
This was the name of the music and dance television show hosted by Marilyn McCoo.
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What is THE PIPS?
This is the name of the singing group that accompanied Gladys Knight.
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What is NATIONAL NEGRO NETWORK?
This was the name of the first Black American radio network.
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What is JELLY ROLL BLUES?
This was the name of the first publication of jazz arrangements.
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What is RUFUS?
This is the name of the group Chaka Khan was the lead singer for.
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What is the UNDERGROUND RAILROAD?
This was the name of the network of hiding places which helped slaves to escape to freedom.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What is HEATWAVE?
This was the name of the group that sang the platinum record "Boogie Nights" in 1977.
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What is MUHAMMAD SPEAKS?
This was the name of the newspaper started by Malcolm X.
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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.
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What is NEGRO DIGEST?
This was the name of the first magazine published by John H. Johnson.
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What is GEORGIA, GEORGIA?
This was the name of the first screenplay produced by a Black American woman.
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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.
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What is MAMBA'S DAUGHTERS?
This was the name of the play in which Ethel Waters starred on Broadway.
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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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