Black History and Arts 1 Quiz

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Along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, what type of music is played with the accordion?

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Zydeco

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Who wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God"?

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Zora Neale Hurston

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Which one of composer/pianist Anthony Davis' operas premiered in Philadelphia in 1985 and was performed by the New York City Opera in 1986?

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X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

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Since 1987, who has held the position of director of jazz at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City?

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Wynton Marsalis

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Of what profession were Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Countee Cullen, major contributors to the Harlem Renaissance?

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Writers

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Who wrote Clote, or The President’s Daughter, the first published novel by a Black American in 1833?

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William Wells Brown

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Who published The Escape, the first play written by a Black American?

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William Wells Brown

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What is the given name of blues great W.C. Handy?

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William Christopher Handy

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What aspiring fiction writer, journalist, and Hopkinsville native, served as editor of three African American weeklies: the Indianapolis Recorder, the Freeman, and the Indianapolis Ledger?

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William Alexander Chambers

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Nat Love wrote what kind of stories?

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Westerns