African American Experience

___________ experienced a huge shift in perspective on the history of Africa, after listening to a presentat

W.E.B. Dubois; Franz Boas

In 1865, only about 5 percent of the African-American population could read. What percentage was literate by 1910?

70

Whose play a "Rasin in the Sun" contributed significantly to the expanding opportunities for Blacks in American theatre?

Lorraine Hansberry

The name Ruby Bridges is synonymous with integration in the state of:

Louisiana

Africa is the continent from which humankind arose more than three million years ago, as demonstrated by the discovery of fossil remains _______ in ___________.

Lucy; Ethiopia

Martin Luther King, Jr. became the leader of this organization which was responsible for coordinating the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

MIA

Whose phenomenally popular recording of "Crazy Blues" in 1920 paved the way for black women to become musical recording artists?

Mamie Smith

As actors, Paul Robeson and Lena Horne both:

Tried to accept only roles which portrayed Blacks positively, and resisted playing demeaning or stereotypical roles

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" was written by Langston Hughes.

True

The Harlem Renaissance occured in part because housing opportunities were plenty in Harlem

True

The first Black female poet to appear in the Norton Anthology of modern poetry was Anne Spencer

True

The famous scientist and botanist George Washington Carver became the head of which school's agricultural department in 1896?

Tuskegee Institute

Which Ohio institution, named after a famous abolitionist, opened its doors to black students in 1856?

Wilberforce University

The Montgomery Bus Boycott ended with:

a Supreme Court decision affirming the segregation on public transportation was unconstitutional.

Slave marriages grew stronger and were more likely to last when the couples were separated to work on different plantations.

false

Slaves viewed the Church and the Bible as an affirmation of slavery

false

W. E. Dubois is widely celebrated as the father of black art.

false

Zora Neal Hurston's goal was to represent all black women, as well as her own talent and contributions.

false

Zora Neale Hurston was known as the true midwife of the Harlem Renaissance.

false

after more than a century of historical insights, Africa is still referred to as the "Dark Continent."

false

Henry Pace

founded Black Swan Records in 1920

the motto of the National Association of Colored Women was

lifting as we climb

A crucial difference between Marcus Garvey's UNIA and both the NAACP and the socialist movement was that the UNIA:

managed to appeal and win the support of a wide swath of Black Americans, creating a true mass following

George and Noble Johnson and Oscar Micheaux were black pioneers in which genre?

motion pictures

reverse migration followed a ______ migration pattern

north to south

Amiri Baraka's writings was described as a weapon against racism.

true

Folk beliefs were very essential to the Christian beliefs of many slaves.

true

Immigrants have a lower expectation of discrimination

true

Slavery existed from the earlies known history of Africa.

true

The "articulate message of slaves to the world" was often conveyed in their religious songs.

true

The earliest examples of racial segregation could be found in churches.

true

The first African American to write a crime novel was Rudolph Fisher.

true

The first full length science fiction written by a Black man, and was a major contribution to the Harlem Renaissance, was the work of George Schuyler.

true

The Murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace, are generally presented as a result of the contemporary rivalry between:

East Coast and West Coast rappers.

___________ mother, insisted on publicizing the image of his corpse to force the world to recognize the crime committed against him.

Emmett Till

Phillis Wheatley's visit to this country caused many to question the American Revolutionary spirit

England

In every state, it was a capital crime for any slave to commit these offenses

arson, rape of white women, and conspiracy to rebel

The Harlem Renaissance occurred:

as a celebration of African American culture with the help of the Great Migration following the era of Black Bohemia

__________ performed an open air concert in front of the Lincoln Memorial in the Spring of 1939, after the Daughters of the American Revolution barred her from singing in their Constitution Hall.

. Marian Anderson

What was the purpose of the Code Noir (Black Code)?

. Regulate slavery in the West Indies

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 did all of the following EXCEPT:

. reduce the federal voting age from 21 to 18

The Harlem Renaissance spanned the time period of the _______________

1920s

Africa has about ___________ languages, which can be classified into ________different linguistic groups.

2000; 4

who organized the March on Washington Movement of the 1940s?

A. Philip Radolph

Where did the African American religious tradition originate?

Africa

Which novelist inspired renewed interest in the works of Zora Neale Hurston before winning the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Color Purple in 1982?

Alice Walker

Which Chicago artist shifted from realist portraiture to modernist depictions on nightlife in his Bronzeville series of paintings?

Archibald Motley

The STFU was formed in rural ______ when Black and White tenant farmers decided to forego old racial hate and protest together

Arkansas

the Elaine Massacre took place in

Arkansas

This playwright, created a cycle of 10 plays that portrayed the 20h century.

August Wilson

The infamous segregationist Eugene "Bull" Connor was the police commissioner of which southern city?

Birmingham

Who was the first male blues singer to have his own recording?

Blind Lemon Jefferson

Which Film actor's dance duets with Shirley Temple were the first interracial dance partnering in film history?

Bojangles Robinson

Who wrote the widely read autobiography, Up from Slavery

Booker T. Washington

Overtime, large numbers of slaves were referred to as Creoles. What is the meaning of the word Creole in that context?

Born in the New Workd

A land mark Supreme court case, declaring that separate public schools for Blacks and Whites was unconstitutional, is known as:

Brown v. Board of Education

the cities with the largest African-American populations as of 2004 included all the following

Chicago, Atlanta and New York

Dirty, tattered clothes with unkempt hair and animal-like describe the

Children

________________________ Poetry, was described as one of the great forces in bringing about what is often called the "Negro literary Renaissance."

Claude McKay's

Minstrel stereotypes:

Contradicted the ideals of freedom and equality

In 1926, _____________________ was acclaimed as a genius, quintessentially young and talented - the best of what was "new" about the New Negro.

Countee Cullen

On June 23, 1963, approximately 125,000 people participated in a "Walk to Freedom," capped by a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., in which city?

Detroit

the prohibition of discrimination in employment in the defense industry and the government came about through

Executive order 8802

Blacks did not move into the American Christian experience until the latter part of the 19th Century

False

The First Great Awakening had no impact on blacks in American Christianity.

False

The term "N****" came about in the 1830s and gained traction among Whites as a term of racial endearment to African Americans

False

Mary Church Terrell

First president of the National Association of Colored Women

This popular African American historical figure identified African-born slaves as the most powerful conjurer in the slave quarters

Frederick Douglass

______________________ Identified ______________ slaves as the most powerful conjurers or magicians in the slave quarters.

Frederick Douglass; African born

Historians coined the entrance of Blacks into American Christianity as the:

Great Awakening

Before her arrest in 1955, Rosa Parks:

Had been active in the civil rights movement for a decade.

most Afro-Caribbean immigrants come to the US from

Haiti and Jamaica

What controversial 1929 King Vidor film produced arguably Hollywood's most realistic and sensitive portrayal of black family life before the 1970s?

Hallelujah!

Which institution had a curriculum that exemplified the philosophy that education for blacks should consist primarily of industrial training?

Hampton Institute

Who was the first African American actor to win an Oscar?

Hattie McDaniel

Who coined the phrase "Talented Tenth" to refer to elite black students who deserved the finest in classical liberal arts education?

Henry Morehouse

All of the following contributed to the downfall of Marcus Garvey EXCEPT:

His failure to attract support from the Black working class.

Which black southern university was named after the head of the Freedman's Bureau?

Howard University

freedom for the Scottsboro boys was secured by

ILD

Eli Whitney

Invented the cotton gin

One reason that The Cosby Show was culturally important is that:

It portrayed a successful, upper-middle class black family.

Which artist's photographs of ordinary blacks, later exhibited as 'Harlem on My Mind", played a crucial role in shaping popular images of the Harlem?

James Van Der Zee

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored man was written by:

James Weldon Johnson

______________________ Won accolades for his/her literary style in the novel Cane, his /her one major literary work of the Harlem Renaissance

Jean Toomer

Barack Obama's presidential candidacy was nearly derailed by an inflammatory sermon delivered by

Jeremiah Wright

___________________ Was credited with providing mentorship and encouragement to other Harlem Renaissance writers such as Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer, Anne Spencer, and Georgia Douglass Johnson.

Jessie Redmond Fauset

Which swing musician's orchestra, included such important figures as Sy Oliver, played in an unusual two-beat rhythm and cultivated an influential brand of physical spectacle and showmanship?

Jimmie Lunceford

One participant of the Civil Rights movement that is still alive and politically active is:

John Lewis

Which dancer, having enjoyed success on Broadway, became a legendary figure in Europe through the Revue Negre?

Josephine Baker

The first conflict in which black soldiers officially served as an integral part of a desegregated military was the:

Korean war

Which playwright, poet, and critic change his name to Amiri Baraka after he became a voice of black militant art in 1965?

LeRoi Jones

All of the following individuals are associated with the Harlem Renaissance except:

Lester Holt Answers: A. J. Rosamond Johnson B. Alaine Locke C. Zora Neale Hurston CorrectD. Lester Holt

Which filmmaker's Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song originated the genre of "blaxploitation" films?

Melvin Van Peebles

________ held that states which provided schools for White education, had to provide instate education for Blacks.

Missouri ex. rel Gaines v. Canada

founding members of the Niagara Movement

Monroe Trotter and W.E.B DuBois

Mary Church Terrell W.E.B DuBois Stokely Carmichael Martin Luther King Jr

NACW NAACP SNCC SCLC

In the post-war years, Harlem became a highly sought out- location by Black southern immigrants, Caribbean immigrants, and also Whites. Black periodicals referred to Harlem as the ______________ or the ________________.

Negro's Zion; Race Capital of the world.

What city is identified as the birthplace of jazz?

New Orleans

Who played a crucial role as a fundraiser in the formative years of the Tuskegee Institute before marrying Booker T. Washington in 1885?

Olivia Davidson

The killing of three black students by campus police in 1968, at the South Carolina State university was known as the ___________.

Orangeburg Massacre

The work of this artist featured homosocial communities and minstrel-like features.

Palmer Hayden

The Twenty-fourth Amendment helped to guarantee blacks' voting rights by banning:

Poll taxes

Claude McKay's poetic style was described as traditional in form but militantly defiant in content. His most well known poems "If we must Die" and "The Lynching," were written in response to:

Race Riots in 1919

Scholars noted that this NAACP field worker in the 1950s, used biblical rhetoric to embolden persons who were threatened with violence in the Sou

Ruby Hurley

A conference in mid-April 1960 led to the creation of which civil rights organization?

SNCC

the unethical Tuskegee study chartered the progression of untreated_________ in over 400 African American men

Syphilis

__________, was responsible for creating institutions of higher education for African American students.

The 2nd Morrill Act

The first large shipment of slaves was sent by the Europeans to ____________.

The Caribbean

Buffoon who moved from country to the city, with a penchant for gambling .

The Coon

Stripped of White ideals of beauty, fat, pitch black, and protective of the master.

The Mammy

Black Exodus

The name Benjamin "Pap" Singleton is synonymous with

A defining feature of the "classic blues" genre is that:

The singers were women

Middle Passage

The voyage to Europe was known as

Arthurine Lucy and Charlayne Hunter were both renown for

Their participation in the desegregation of colleges

What stance did white southerners take on philanthropic associations' funding of black schools in the late nineteenth century?

They opposed it out of fear that the associations would encourage dangerous ideas of racial equality.

_____________ popularized the genre of gospel music through compositions such as "Precious Lord take my hand."

Thomas Dorsey

W. E. B. Du Bois challenged Booker T. Washington on all of the following grounds EXCEPT:

Washington's willingness to work with sympathetic whites instead of insisting that Blacks alone could solve their own problems.

The General Education Board and the Slater Fund were examples of foundations to aid southern black schools established by:

Wealthy Industrialists

Although their political views converged over time, African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans were initially usually at odds over the question of:

Whether overcoming class or racial discrimination should be Black's primary goal

the National Urban League was instrumental in

assisting newly arrived blacks adjust to life in the north

In the years surrounding the 1963 March on Washington, African Americans in the North and West

continued to participate actively in protest movements aimed against de facto segregation and discrimination in the North.

_________ contended that Blacks presented a smaller brain size than Whites, proving that Whites were more intelligent.

craniologists

Plessy v. Fergusson upheld the rights of all states to ban racial segregation in public and private institutions.

false

"The Banjo Lesson" is the work of Agusta Savage.

false

Joshua Johnston produced the artwork "Girl Wearing a Bonnet" in 1805

false

All of the following statements about Phillis Wheatley are true EXCEPT:

her private statements revealed that she did not think slavery was wrong.

In response to reports of a potential slave uprising in 1822, South Carolina passed a law which:

imprisoned black sailors for the duration of their ship's stay in the port of Charleston

In Boston, the public-school system:

initially denied black children access to the schools, then assumed control of the separate schools, which the Black community had created for its children

John P. Parker

invented the screw for the tobacco press

Julien Hudson is a notable example of an early African-American:

painter

Charlie Cobb of SNCC originated what concept which was put into practice in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964?

starting "freedom schools" to expand black children's educational opportunities

Simple, docile, laughing man, often seen dancing.

the Sambo

Released in 1979, the song "Rapper's Delight" was a breakthrough hit for?

the Sugar Hill Gang

blocking the integration of white schools

the White Citizen's councils which sprang up in many southern states were formed particularly with which goal in mind?

the primary reason that European planters in the Americas came to rely on the labor of African slaves was that

the importation of Old World disease and harsh labor demands of European conquistadors devastated the native population of the Americas

Ida B. Wells was best known for her involvement in which movement?

the movement to end lynching

Slave codes in the United States generally included all of the following provisions EXCEPT

the rape of an enslaved woman was never a crime, regardless of who assaulted her

Docile, older, non-threatening to Whites, dependable worker.

the uncle

What issue arose in the 1880s and 1890s to cause strife in universities such as Fisk and Howard?

the universities' refusal to admit more blacks to positions of leadership