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100
What is MOSES?
This was the nickname given to Harriet Tubman because of her efforts to free the slaves.
100
What is SHOP AROUND by SMOKEY ROBINSON AND THE MIRACLES?
This was the song--and by this group--that gave Motown its first million unit seller.
100
Who is OPRAH WINFREY?
This well-known woman founded a company called Harpo Productions in order to create her own project.
100
What is SOUL TRAIN?
This will be the longest, continuously running first-run syndicated television program until at least 2016.
100
What is 1963?
Jesse Gray led 30,000 people to strike for needed apartment repairs in New York City in this year.
200
What is the 6888TH POSTAL UNIT?
This was the only African American military women's unit to go overseas during World War II.
200
What is TAKE THE A TRAIN?
This was the theme of Duke Ellington's band.
200
What are BARRACOONS?
The holding pens which kept the enslaved Africans until they were transported were called this.
200
Who is JULIA E. JACKSON AIKENS?
This woman became the first African American switchboard operator at the U.S. Post Office in South Bend, Indiana in 1959.
200
What is 2004?
Ray Charles died in this year.
300
What is SELF DEFENSE?
This was the original reason for establishing the Black Panther Party.
300
What is WHERE I'M COMING FROM?
This was the title of the comic strip Barbara Brandon reached a national audience with in 1991.
300
What are ABOLITIONISTS?
The people against slavery were called this.
300
Who is AMIRI BARAKA?
This writer changed his name from Leroy Jones.
300
What is 1957?
The integration of Central High occurred in this year.
400
What is the ROYAL SEVEN?
This is what was the sit-in group was called in Durham, North Carolina.
400
What is BEHOLD THE LAND?
This was the title of W.E.B. DuBois's 1946 address delivered at the closing session of the Southern Youth Legislature.
400
Who is JOHN BROWN?
This White abolitionist urged Frederick Douglass to join the attack on Harper's Ferry.
400
Who is LANGSTON HUGHES?
This writer created the character Jesse B. Semple, the quintessential middle-aged man in Harlem.
400
What is 1859?
The ship Clotilde, the last known ship to carry slaves to the United States, land in Mobile Bay, Alabama in this year.
500
What is "JOBS AND FREEDOM?"
This was the slogan of the 1963 March on Washington.
500
What is the SAY HEY KID?
This was Willie May's nickname.
500
What is THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (D.A.R.)?
This White women's organization stopped singer Marian Anderson from performing at Constitution Hall on Easter Sunday in 1939.
500
What is 1947?
Jackie Robinson joined the Dodgers in this year.
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What is 1964?
Malcolm X was assassinated in this year.






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