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What is The Bill Cosby Show?
The first episode aired on September 14th, 1969. It ran for 2 seasons and had 52 episodes about a gym teachers connections to the students and faculty at school.
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Who is Edward William Brooke III
The first African American to be popularly elected into the US Senate.
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What is High Waisted Jeans?
.A type of clothing style where your pants come up past your belly button.
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What is I Passed for White?
A light-skinned black woman has nagging doubts about a marriage proposal by a wealthy white man.
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What is Funk?
The development of this genre was by black musicians like James Brown in the late 60s
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What is ISpy?
First aired on September 15th, 1965. There was a total of 82 episodes and they were played on NBC. Robert Culp and Bill Cosby were the main characters.
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What is The Black Panther Party?
Founded by Huey P Newton and Bobby Seale, college students in Oakland, California.
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What is a Suit Jacket?
Formal jacket like wear for men.
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What is A Raisin in the Sun?
A story about an African-American family living together in an apartment in Chicago, following the death of their patriarch, they try to determine what to do with the substantial insurance payment they'll soon receive.
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Who is Kenny Lynch?
This artist released "You can never stop me loving you" in July of 1963, he was 25 at the time.
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What is The Outcasts?
A tv show were a bounty hunter who was a Confederate Officer teams up with an ex-slave who was a Union Soldier during the Civil War.
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What is The Dominican Republic?
In 1965, the US sent in this nations troop to prop up capitalist rule.
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What are Roll Cuff Jeans?
Popular in 1960s men fashion; jeans that do a specific roll at the bottom
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What is The Cool World?
A 15-year-old member of the gang Royal Pythons, decides he needs a gun to survive on the streets of Harlem, he visits a local thug named Priest. This devastating semi-documentary dramatizes the life of young gang bangers in 1960s Harlem and transcends its narrative to deliver a vivid picture of inner city life.
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Who is Booker T. and the MGs?
This group was an instrumental R&B/funk band that was influential in shaping the sound of Southern soul and Memphis soul.
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What is Room 222?
A black teacher Mr. Dixon tries to teach the students at WWHS to be tolerant. He is assisted by girlfriend and school counselor, Liz, and student teacher Alice.
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What is Africa?
The 1960s was a period of radical political change for this continent as countries gained independence from their European colonial rulers.
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What is Natural Hair?
Females loved to wear their hair like this, many hair styles can be created with...
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What is Black like Me?
The journey of a white reporter who attempts to live as a black man in the American South during the 1950s after undergoing treatments to darken his skin.
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What is Rock and Roll?
This genre was a complete invention by Black Americans that included people such as Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry
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What is Land of the Giants?
A spaceship from Earth crash-lands on an Earth-like planet on which everything is twelve times the size of its counterpart on Earth.
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What is "Negro"?
This derogatory term was used to refer to dark-skinned people of African origin and was accepted as a normal formal term in the 17th century
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What is a low/ buzz cut?
Common cut down for the men in the 1960s, slowly making a comeback in the 2000s
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What is Nothing but a Man?
An African-American rail worker has left his 4-year old son with a nanny to drift through life with little ambition. Duff's outlook on life changes when he meets a gentle preacher's daughter. They struggle to hold on to their marriage as he must face up to the oppressive racism of 1960s America.
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What is The Jimi Hendrix Experience?
This rock band first formed in London in September of 1966 and released their first single "Hey Joe" soon after.
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