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Who is Billie Holiday
The song “Strange Fruits” was recorded by what African American female musical
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What is Hidden Figures
This movie features mathematicians from Savannah State University
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Who is Maya Angelou
What famous African American woman poet/authors book was later turned into a movie
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Who is Benjamin Banneker
What farmer, mathematician, astronomer and land surveyor, invented the first clock
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Who is Bessie Coleman
Who was the first African American woman to be a licensed pilot
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Who is Ma Rainey
What African American Woman invented the music style “blues”
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Who is Esther Jones aka Baby Esther
The character Betty Boop inspired by which real life woman
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Who is Phillis Wheatly at 12 years
Who was the first African American author published and how old were they when it happened
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Who is Garrett Morgan
Who invented the tri-colored traffic light
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Who is Hattie McDaniel
Who was the first African American woman to win an Oscar
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What is Happy Birthday
What song by Stevie Wonder helped to petition for Martin Luther King Jr. to have his own holiday
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Who is Forest Whitaker
Which actor played lead role in the movie entailing the life of the butler for the White House
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Who is Nikki Giovanni
What African American woman poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator said the famous quite “ We love because it is the only true adventure
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Who is Alexander Miles
Who invented Automatic elevator doors
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Who is Richard R. Wright Sr.
Who was the first African American United States Army paymaster
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Who is James Weldon Johnson
Who wrote the black national anthem
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Who are Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine, and Jennifer Holliday
Who were the original Dream Girls
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What is Beloved
What Toni Morrison novel stars Thandie Newton as the lead role
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What is Mark Dean
Who invented the IBM Color PC monitor and gigahertz chip
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What is Dr.Charles Drew /Blood Bank
Who was the first African American person awarded a doctorate from Columbia University and what did he invent
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Who is Chuck Berry
Who is credited as being the father of Rock and Roll Music
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What is The Hate U Give
What book by Angie Thomas was adapted into a major motion picture with Amandla Stenberg in the lead role
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Who is James Baldwin
What author of Go Tell It On the Mountain moved to Paris at age 24
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What is Lewis Latimer
Who invented the Carbon lightbulb filament
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Who is Charles Hamilton Houston
Who was the first African American to be editor for Harvard Law Review
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