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What is George Washington most famous invention?
Prominent scientist and inventor in the early 1900s that developed hundreds of products using peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans.
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Who is Denzel Washington
This black male actor has won two Oscar awards, as well as received nominations for four more, and is regarded as one of the best actors in the industry
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Who is Maya Angelou?
This woman's autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is the first non-fiction work by an African-American woman to make the best-seller list.
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Who is Dorothy Height?
Leader in the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) and the president of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) for more than 40 years.
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What was the Clotida?
The ship was the last African Slave ship to visit America.
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Who is Mae Carol Jemison and what is she known for?
American engineer, physician, and NASA astronaut but most known for being the first African American woman to travel in space in 1992.
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Who is John Singleton?
This legendary film director behind the films Poetic Justice, Baby Boy, Higher Learning, and Boyz n the Hood
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When was hiphop founded?
The black art form was founded in New York, on August 11,1973
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What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
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Who was Mosses Fleetwood Walker
The first African American to play major league baseball in the nineteenth century.
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Who is Mary McCloud Bethune?
This American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist founded the National Council for Negro Women in 1935, and later started a private school for African American in Daytona Beach, FL, that later developed into a University.
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Who is Eddie Murphey
Which comedian turned actor has been noted for playing multiple different characters in the same film?
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Who is Jean Michel Basquiat?
This famous black NY based artist used their paintings to broadcast exquisite portrayals of the struggles of African Americans in the 1990s.
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What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
This organization was founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
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What year was Spelman College found?
This historically black college for women was founded on April 11th,1881.
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Who was Dr. Shirley Jackson?
This inventor conducted breakthrough basic scientific research that enabled others to invent the portable fax, touch tone telephone, solar cells and so on.
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What is 13TH?
Ava Duvernay directed this Netflix documentary special which won multiple Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
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Who is Madam C. J. Walker
This African American woman is recorded as the first black self-made millionaire in the U.S.
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Who was Margret Sloan-Hunter?
This African American organizer, activist, and poet was the first and only president of the National Black Feminist organization
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Who is Booker T. Washington?
This person was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
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What were Jitneys?
During Jim Crow, African Americans used this affordable bus alternative, because it was free of segregation.
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Who is Stevie Wonder?
This singer songwriter has won the most Grammys for a male solo artist at 22 Grammys
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Who is Bessie Smith?
This African American blues singer was widely renowned during the Jazz Age, and was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s and popularized "Alexander's Ragtime Band."
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Who is Shirley Chisholm?
The first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President
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What is dry scouring/cleaning?
Thomas Jennings was the first Black Man to receive a patent for this invention in 1821.
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