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What are MARINE EGGS?
Earnest Everett Just, a biologist, was known for this type of research.
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What is "60 MINUTES"?
Ed Bradley was a member of this news team.
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What are VLACK CODES?
Enacted in 1865 and 1866 restricting freed slaves from renting or purchasing property, these laws limited the movement of the freed slaves.
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What is JOHNSON PUBLISHING COMPANY?
Established in 1945. this publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines is the world's largest Black-owned publishing company.
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Who is LOUIS GOSSETT, JR.?
This actor won an Academy Award for Best-Supporting Actor in An Officer and A Gentleman five years after acting in the television mini-series Roots.
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What is CATWOMAN?
Eartha Kitt played what role in the Batman series?
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What is THE JACK BENNY SHOW?
Eddie "Rochester" Anderson appeared on this Sunday night comedy show.
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Who is HARRIET A. JACOBS?
Entitled Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, this 1861 work was the first to be authored by a Black female former slave.
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Who is CHAMPAGNE?
This was Evelyn King's nickname, who received gold records for her songs Shame in 1978 and I Don't Know If it's Right in 1979/
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What is TWO?
President Obama served this many terms.
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What is the KATHERINE DUNHAM DANCE TROUPE?
Eartha Kitt started her dance career with this famous troupe.
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What is COMING TO AMERICA?
Eddie Murphy played an African prince in this motion picture.
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What is THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN?
Ernest J. Gaines is a short story writer who wrote a 1971 historical novel turned television movie whose main character was a 110-year-old woman who narrated her personal story. Name the movie.
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Who is ELEANORA FAGAN?
This is the given name of famed jazz singer Billie Holiday born in 1915.
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What are 33?
Chubby Checker's hit song, The Twist, stayed on the top 40 charts for this many weeks.
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What is MICHIGAN STATE?
Earvin "Magic" Johnson played for this college basketball team
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What is ABYSSINIAN BAPTIST CHURCH?
Elected to Congress in 1944, Adams Clayton Powell, Jr. also became pastor of this Harlem church.
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What are the BUFFALO SOLDIERS?
Established by congress in 1866 as the first peace-time all-black regiments in the regular U.S. Army, these soldiers were originally members of the U.S. 10th Calvary Regiment of the United States Army at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.
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Who is SONNY LISTON?
Muhammad Ali defeated this person on February 25, 1964 to win the world heavyweight boxing championship.
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What is 2 YEARS?
Before a doctor discovered she was a woman and subsequently discharged her, Cathay Williams served in the military for this long.
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What is "60 MINUTES"?
Ed Bradley is a reporter with this acclaimed news show.
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What is SCULPTURE?
Elizabeth Catlett Mora is a graphic artist and printmaker. She is best known for this type of work.
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What is SPELMAN COLLEGE?
Established in 1881, this college holds the distinction of being America's oldest historically Black college for women.
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What is 1865?
Fisk University was established in Nashville, Tennessee as a liberal arts institution in this year.
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What is CARMEN JONES?
Dorothy Dandridge was the first Black actress to receive an Academy Award nomination for this 1954 film.
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