Who wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God"?

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

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

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

Who wrote Clotel, or The President's Daughter, the first published novel by a Black American in 1853?

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

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

Who was the aspiring fiction writer, journalist, and Hopkinsville native who served as editor of three Black American weeklies: the Indianapolis Recorder, the Freeman, and the Indianapolis Ledger?

Nat Love wrote what kind of stories?

Cartoonist Morrie Turner created what world-famous syndicated comic strip?

Who was born in Florence, Alabama in 1873 and is called "Father of the Blues"?

Georgia Douglas Johnson was a poet during the Harlem Renaissance era. She often held writers' workshops at her home in what city?

Growing up with a white Jewish mother and a Black American father, who wrote Devil in a Blue Dress, A Red Death, White Butterfly, and Black Betty?

Strongly influenced by Alice Walker's The Color Purple, what award-winning author created the enduring character of Easy Rawlins featured in a series of novels?

Known for his social and political views, who published The Souls of Black Folks in 1903?

Who was the first Black American woman chosen as Miss America?

In addition to her outstanding career as a singer, what was Marian Anderson appointed to by President Dwight D. Eisenhower?

Name the three journalist sons of educator, poet, and author Ephraim Poston.

Who were the Hopkinsville natives and brothers who owned and edited The Detroit Contender?

Gustavus Vassa was a slave who had written the first autobiography. His African name was Olaudah Equiano. How many volumes made up his narrative?

Harlem Renaissance writer Eric Walrond was born in Georgetown, British Guiana and penned what book that consists of a collection of ten stories?

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.

Born in Hopkinsville, KY, what pianist and arranger formed his own jazz band and recorded the albums Your Daddy's Dogin' Around and Blues for the Red Boy?

Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has been a prominent figure in jazz since the 1980s. He is the spokesperson for what group, representing a younger generation of jazz musicians?

What is the name of Gloria Naylor's first novel that consisted of tales from seven Black women who wound up on a dead-end street in a ghetto in the North?

What New York library houses rare collections of Black culture?

What group started as a male gospel ensemble but added female voices in the 1940s?

What was the name of Charles W. Chesnutt's final novel?

For what work did August Wilson win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama?

Sallie Martin was the "mother of gospel music." She and Thomas A. Dorsey founded what group in 1933?

Langston Hughes was responsible for publishing what Black American magazine?

George Shirley was a tenor and member of what opera company?

What Broadway show became the longest running one-person show in the history of Broadway?

What was the name of the first novel published by Charles W. Chesnutt?

What Ted Poston work was published after his death in 1974?

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?

What is the name of the newsletter which was originally edited by W.E.B. Du Bois and published by the NAACP in 1910?

What is the name of the Harlem club where many famous Black American entertainers began their careers?

Popularized by the 1923 musical Runnin’ Wild, what 1920s dance is believed to have started in a coastal city of South Carolina?

What musical genre emerged from three heavily populated black isolated areas: the Mississippi Delta, the Piedmont, and East Texas?

Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now, a platinum hit by Gene McFadden & John Whitehead, was known as what in 1979?

Vibraphone player Lionel Hampton started his career in 1936 with which band?

Who wrote The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman that was televised starring Cicely Tyson as the 110-year-old Pittman?

What was the name of the former Virginia Theatre that became the first Broadway theater to bear the name of a Black American in 2005?

What Harlem theatre is a showcase for Black talent?

What author promoted her first novel, Mama, by contacting colleges and universities?

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

What is the name of the Grammy award winning gospel a cappella sextet whose hits include Spread Love and David & Goliath?

“Go Down, Moses” and “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” are known as what type of songs?

Music historians refer to what type of music as the first Black American music?

Which director, screenwriter and actor was born in Atlanta but relocated to Brooklyn, where he later established a film company and produced the movie Do The Right Thing?

Who directed an award-winning documentary about the government's response to Hurricane Katrina and ways in which the storm's aftermath affected Black Americans?

In 1938, who was the first gospel singer to record for a major record label, Decca Records?

For what talent did Elizabeth Taylor-Greenfield receive worldwide acclaim?

Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Sammy Davis, Jr., Brock Peters, Diahann Carroll, Ivan Dixon, and Clarence Muse were the all-star Black cast of which 1959 film?

Who is the pastor of a large congregation in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is a well-known female singer who worked with the gospel group The Caravans established by Albertina Walker?

Who was the executive producer for the film The Eye Can Story, a 30-minute documentary created to promote the self-esteem of teenagers and to deter early sexual involvement?

Elizabeth Catlett Mora is a graphic artist and printmaker, and she is also best known for what other type of work?

Specializing in portraits of black leaders, Harlem Renaissance arts educator Augusta Savage was what type of artist?

Who wrote the song Maple Leaf Rag?

Scott Joplin never got to see the operas he created in the 1900s; which of his operas was confiscated along with his belongings for non-payment?

What musical instrument did jazz musician Grover Washington, Jr. play?

Which of Scott Joplin’s operas was produced in 1972?

Who was the Black American that took jazz vocals to a new level and was called “The Divine One” because of her range and effortless mastery of the intricacies of music?

Which movie featured several of Scott Joplin’s compositions?

Which singer joined the group the Soul Stirrers in 1950?

Roots, the miniseries, was aired eight nights in 1977 with nearly 130 million viewers. What was the name of the 1979 sequel?

What was Scott Joplin awarded posthumously in 1976?

Kunta Kinte was one of the characters in what Alex Haley book?

What Alex Haley novel was made into a television mini-series in 1977 and 1979?

Who was a one-time Negro League professional baseball player, turned artist that created collages on the lifestyles of blacks in the 1960s?

Who was the artist whose painting was entitled “After Church”?

Who was the first Black American painter to win national recognition?

Which famous Black American writer encouraged Ralph Ellison’s efforts to become a writer?

What music is regarded by many as a form of street poetry?

Published in 1982, Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple became a monumental bestseller and won what coveted awards?

Joshua Johnson made his living in the early 1800s with what profession?

What style of music were the Ward Singers famous for performing?

Published in 1771, what book brought Phillis Wheatley wide acclaim?

Scott Joplin played his ragtime music on what instrument?

Which one of the Ward Singers songs was among the first million-selling gospel hits?

What medium did Gordon Parks use to describe Black Americans deprivation and racial discrimination?

Julian Abele was involved in the design of what museum?

What was Gordon Parks famous for helping to create in the film industry?

In 1905 the first black symphony was founded. What was it called?

Who was the Black worker Gordon Parks photographed and titled it “American Gothic, Washington D.C.”?

Which film is cited by the National Film Registry as the first feature film by a black director to be financed by a major Hollywood Studio?

In what city was Marian Anderson born?

Who was the actor that appeared in the play Emperor Jones in 1925?

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

Who wrote the poem “A Negro Love Song”?

Creators of bebop known today as modern jazz, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie played what musical instruments?

What was the occupation of Laura Wheeler Waring?

How many songs did the “father of gospel music” Thomas A. Dorsey compose?

What was Leona Mitchell’s profession?

Where was Ralph Ellison, the famous Black American novelist, born?

Who was a professor of English, a poet, and the author of My House is Divided into Two?

What was the name of the dance company Arthur Mitchell became the first black man to dance for in 1955?

What city known for jazz music had great influence on Mahalia Jackson?

What kind of musical instrument is a “Bentwa” which is unique to Africa?

Ralph Ellison turned to writing after his career in what field was not successful?

What was the name of the newspaper started by Malcolm X?

Who was the Black American cartoonist who created the world famous “Wee Pals”?

In 1969 which photojournalist became the first black male and the first black journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize?

Born in Owensboro, KY, who was the first Black American to win a Pulitzer Prize in photography?

In what state was Langston Hughes born?

In 1963, Katherine Dunham became the first Black American choreographer to work at what New York City Theater?

Whose screenplay, Georgia, Georgia, was the first original script by a Black woman to be produced?

Which multifaceted author started her career as an entertainer, was also a poet, and delivered her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993?

Who played the lead role in Miss Jane Pittman the movie?

Who portrayed “Ulrica” in the Musket Ball, was named to the US Delegation to the United Nations, and was awarded the Freedom Medal?

Who was the first Black American singer to be admitted to the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York?

Who did the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) refuse to let perform at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. in 1939?

What is the name of the Marion Marche Perkins sculpture that won the Art Institute of Chicago Purchase Award in 1951?

Who was known as the “queen of gospel music.” Her first recording “Move on Up a Little Higher” sold over a million copies in 1945?

Brumsic Brandon, Jr. is best known for what comic strip?

Who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in An Officer and A Gentleman, five years after acting in the television mini-series Roots?

Who played the character “Fiddler” in the television mini-series Roots in 1977?

Who was the author of the hit play A Raisin in The Sun?

On January 21, 1973 where did opera singer Jessye Norman perform to a sellout crowd in the Great Performers series?

Published in 1907, what was the title of the first of six Claybron Merriweather books?

Gordon Parks was voted “Photographer of the Year” in 1960 while working for what popular magazine?

Who was the first Black person to perform at the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera House in 1966?

Who is the author of Before the Mayflower?

Which pastor was also a journalist and the religious editor at the Hopkinsville Globe Journal for six years?

Under what name did poet Amiri Baraka publish some of his books?

Who was the writer that created the character Jesse B. Semple, the quintessential middle-aged man in Harlem?

What is the name of the colorful fabric worn by African royalty?

Which city is known as the “jazz capital of the Southwest”?

Robb Armstrong is the creator of what cartoon strip which features the trials and tribulations of Joe and Marcy?

Who is the Black American who was acclaimed for his involvement in the design of the Philadelphia Museum of Art?

Who was best known for her role as Bloody Mary in the 1949 Broadway stage production of South Pacific?

What are the names of the two Broadway plays by playwright August Wilson that ran at the same time on Broadway?

What was the name of the first publication of jazz arrangements?

What form of music did Duke Ellington elevate into a serious art form?

What type of music did Louis Armstrong revolutionize and help establish as the nation’s first highly popular Black art form?

What type of music with an emphasis on improvisation began in New Orleans around the 1900s?

What is the name of the main character in the Zora Neale Hurston novel Their Eyes Were Watching God?

Which Grammy award-winning gospel singer, arranger, and composer of the 1950s and 1960s is credited with being the most significant driving force behind the creation of the contemporary gospel sound?

Which famous Black author said, “Black writers do more than merely exhibit rage – they must analyze the roots of racial oppression”?

In 1972 Kathleen Battle made her professional debut as an opera singer at the Spoleto Festival in what country?

In 1953, Ralph Ellison received the National Book Award for what book?

The collection of William Alexander Chambers, writer for the Indiana Herald and editor of three Black American weeklies, is housed where?

What was the name of the 1861 work by Harriet A. Jacobs, which was considered the first work authored by a Black female former slave called?

What was Maya Angelou’s first autobiography which was nominated for a National Book Award called?

Who was the author of Black Metropolis written in 1945?

Who wrote the anti-slavery novel Page Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Who wrote the 1816 work entitled Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl?

What term refers generally to the artistic and socio-cultural awakening among Black people in the 1920s and early 1930s?