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Who was the first Black Actor to receive an Academy Award for Best Actor?

• Paul Robeson

• Alex Haley

• Hattie McDaniel

• Sidney Poitier

What year did Sidney Poitier win the Academy Award for best Actor and for what film?

• 1963, Lilies of Field

• 1967, Guess who's coming to dinner

• 1961, A Raisin in the Sun

• 1997, The Jakal

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

• Painters

• Historians

• Writers

• Artists

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.

• Terry McMillan

• Toni Morrison

• BeBe Moore Campbell

• Maya Angelo

What is the name of the sculpture designed as a tribute to the four Black girls killed during a church bombing in Alabama in 1963?

• The Crucifix

• The souls of black folks

• Four little girls

• The Four Spirites

Who is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Waiting to Exhale?

• BeBe Moore Campbell

• Terry McMillan

• Maya Angelo

• Toni Morrison

Who was the first Black American poet to be nationally recognized for his writing?

• Langston Hughes

• Paul Robeson

• Paul Lawrence Dunbar

• Robert Hayden

Who wrote the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave in 1845?

• Frederick Douglass

• Paul Roberson

• Paul Lawrence Dunbar

• Langston Hughes

This writer won a Pulitzer Prize chronicling his seven-generation family from West Africa in the story Roots. Name Him

• Langston Huges

• Alex Haley

• Frederick Douglass

• Bill Williams

Moneta Sleet, Jr., became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize in photography for what picture?

• A photo of the Cruxifix

• A photo of the family of Malcom X at his funeral.

• A photo of Coretta Scott King and her daughter Bernice, at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral.

• The picture of the Four Spirits Sculpture.