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What is MOSES?
This was the nickname given to Harriet Tubman because of her efforts to free the slaves.
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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.
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Who is OPRAH WINFREY?
This well-known woman founded a company called Harpo Productions in order to create her own project.
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What is SOUL TRAIN?
This will be the longest, continuously running first-run syndicated television program until at least 2016.
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What is 1963?
Jesse Gray led 30,000 people to strike for needed apartment repairs in New York City in this year.
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What is the 6888TH POSTAL UNIT?
This was the only African American military women's unit to go overseas during World War II.
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What is TAKE THE A TRAIN?
This was the theme of Duke Ellington's band.
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What are BARRACOONS?
The holding pens which kept the enslaved Africans until they were transported were called this.
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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.
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What is 2004?
Ray Charles died in this year.
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What is SELF DEFENSE?
This was the original reason for establishing the Black Panther Party.
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What is WHERE I'M COMING FROM?
This was the title of the comic strip Barbara Brandon reached a national audience with in 1991.
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What are ABOLITIONISTS?
The people against slavery were called this.
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Who is AMIRI BARAKA?
This writer changed his name from Leroy Jones.
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What is 1957?
The integration of Central High occurred in this year.
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What is the ROYAL SEVEN?
This is what was the sit-in group was called in Durham, North Carolina.
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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.
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Who is JOHN BROWN?
This White abolitionist urged Frederick Douglass to join the attack on Harper's Ferry.
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Who is LANGSTON HUGHES?
This writer created the character Jesse B. Semple, the quintessential middle-aged man in Harlem.
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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.
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What is "JOBS AND FREEDOM?"
This was the slogan of the 1963 March on Washington.
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What is the SAY HEY KID?
This was Willie May's nickname.
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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.
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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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