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| B.B. King is known for what type of music? | Blues
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| Known as one of the greatest African American jazz piano players, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969. Name him. | Duke Ellington
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| Who was the first African American singer to be admitted to the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York City? | Marian Anderson
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| What famous African American author/poet read at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993? | Maya Angelou
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| Who wrote the book Born to Rebel? | Benjamin E. Mays
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| What Alex Haley novel was made into a television mini-series in 1977 and 1979? | Roots
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| Who was the first Black American poet to be nationally recognized for his writing? | Paul Lawrence Dunbar
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| The "Father of Gospel Music" composed over 1000 songs. Name him. | Thomas A Dorsey
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| What is the name of the newsletter which was originally edited by W.E.B. Du Bois and published by the NAACP in 1910? | The Crisis
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| She was known as the "queen of gospel music". Her first recording "Move On Up a Little Higher" sold over a million copies in 1945. What was her name? | Mahalia Jackson
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| Hattie McDaniel was the first black performer to receive an Academy Award. She won for the Best Supporting Actress for what 1939 - film? | Gone with the Wind
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| For what 1954 film was Dorothy Dandridge the first black actress to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress? | Carmen Jones
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| Who wrote "Their Eyes are Watching God"? | Zora Neale Hurston
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| Who was the first Black American woman chosen as Miss America? | Vanessa Williams
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| Music historians refer to what type of music as the first Black American Music? | Spirituals
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| What African American novelist wrote Invisible Man, for which he won the National Book Award for fiction in 1952? | Ralph Ellison
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| What musical instrument used in Africa was frequently chosen as a royal or sacred instrument? | Drum
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| In 1905, the first black symphony was founded; what was it called? | Philadelphia Concert Orchestra
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| Did Maya Angelou take the title of her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, from a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar or Phillis Wheatley? | Paul Laurence Dunbar
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| Who is regarded to as "the King of Tap Dancers"? | Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
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| The Roaring Twenties introduced an unprecedented outpouring of black art, literature, and music. What was this period known as? | Harlem Renaissance
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| In 1993, she became the first black to be honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature for six novels. She is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved which became a motion picture and in 1993 for Jazz. Name her: | Toni Morrison
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| Langston Hughes was responsible for publishing what Black American magazine? | The Nation
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| Name the singer who will always be remembered for the rendition of "Stormy Weather?" | Lena Horne
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| Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol admired each other and worked closely together. Were they artists or architects? | artists
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| Which singer-actress won a Tony in 2000: Whitney Houston or Heather Headley? | Heather Headley
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| Thomas A Dorsey has been called the father of gospel music. What is his best-known song? | Precious Lord, Take My Hand"
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| What singer was known as "the empress of the blues"? | Bessie Smith
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| In her first leading role with the Metropolitan Opera, did Marian Anderson perform in a work by Verdi, Rossini, or Mozart? | Verdi
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| What internationally famous dancer choreographed the ballet titled Revelations? | Alvin Ailey
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| Brooklyn native Louis Gossett, Jr won an Emmy Award for his role in the TV movie Roots. What role earned him an Academy Award? | drill sergeant
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| Did Henry O. Tanner become "the dean of American painters" in turn-of-the-century London, Paris, or Madrid? | Paris (his painting "Raising of Lazarus" was purchased for the Luxenbourg Palace.)
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| What did George M. Horton plan to do with the profits from his 1839 novel, The Hope of Liberty? | buy his freedom and go to Liberia
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| as Bill Cosby's first hit TV show called Mission Impossible, I Spy, or The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ? | I Spy(debuted in 1965)
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