Jamestown 2 James Brown

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Who is this? Options: Frederick Douglass, James Brown, Phillis Wheatley, W.E.B. Du Bois

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Frederick Douglass

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What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang? Options: Langston Hughes, Phillis Wheatley, Frances E.W. Harper, Countee Cullen

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Countee Cullen

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Who wrote the lines: "Twas mercy brought me from my pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand, That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew."? Options: George Whitefield, Phillis Wheatley, Thomas Jefferson, Olaudah Equiano

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Phillis Wheatley

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Who wrote: "In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed. Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track"? Options: James Baldwin, W.E.B DuBois, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright

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Richard Wright

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Who said: "There are to-day no truer exponents of the pure human spirit of the Declaration of Independence than the American Negroes; there is no true American music but the wild sweet melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales and folk-lore are Indian and African; and, all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness"?

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W.E.B Du Bois

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"I was born by the river in a little tent
Oh and just like the river I've been running ev'r since
It's been a long time, a long time coming
But I know a change gonna come"
Options: James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Sam Cooke, Countee Cullen

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Sam Cooke

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Who said, "Religion indeed has produced a Phyllis Whately; but it could not produce a poet. The compositions published under her name are below the dignity of criticism."?

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Thomas Jefferson

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Who said: "in our humble way, we shall stand by you with a devotion that no foreigner can approach, ready to lay down our lives, if need be, in defense of yours . . . In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress."?

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Booker T. Washington

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Who expressed shame for black artists distancing themselves from their racial identity in their work?

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Langston Hughes

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Who wrote the poem that includes the lines: "So I got a pair of glasses, And straight to work I went, And never stopped till I could read, The hymns and Testament. Then I got a little cabin, A place to call my own— And I felt independent, As the queen upon her throne."? Options: Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, George Moses Horton, Frances E.W. Harper

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Frances E.W. Harper