Presentation 15: Black Jeapardy Answer Key

Black Jeopardy — Answer Key

 

  1. Phillis Wheatley, poet (1753-1784)
  2. John Hope, educator, political activist (1868-1936)
  3. Thomas E. Miller, lawyer, educator, U.S. congressman (1849-1938)
  4. Daniel Hale Williams, surgeon (1856-1931)
  5. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, poet, author, abolitionist, social activist (1825-1911)
  6. Henry P. Cheatham, educator, U.S. congressman (1857-1935)
  7. Arthur Ashe, tennis champion (1943-1993)
  8. Andrew Young, activist, politician, diplomat, pastor (b. 1932)
  9. Martin Luther King Jr. assassination scene, Memphis, April 1968
  10. Mutiny aboard the slave ship Amistad, 1839
  11. Robert M. Smalls, ship’s pilot, sea captain, U.S. congressman (1839-1915)
  12. Ethel Waters, singer, actress (1896-1977)
  13. (130) Jackie Robinson, athlete, baseball Hall of Famer (1919-1972)
  14. Bessie Smith, singer (1894-1937)
  15. Edward Perry, physician, hospital founder (1870-1962)
  16. Thurgood Marshall, lawyer, Civil Rights activist, U.S. Supreme Court justice (1908-1993)
  17. Nat Love, also known as “Deadwood Dick,” cowboy, author (1854-1921)
  18. Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
  19. Booker T. Washington, educator, author (1856-1915)
  20. Lewis Sheridan Leary, abolitionist (1835-1859)
  21. Daisy Bates, journalist, publisher, Civil Rights activist (1914-1999)
  22. Scottsboro Boys, falsely accused of rape in 1930s Alabama
  23. (108) Henry Highland Garnet, minister, educator, abolitionist (1815-1882)
  24. Jesse Owens, athlete, Olympic gold medalist (1913-1980)
  25. 369th U.S. Infantry Regiment, “Harlem Hellfighters” of World War I
  26. Elijah McCoy, engineer, inventor (1844-1929)
  27. Scott Joplin, musician, composer (1868-1917)
  28. Warith Deen Muhammad, theologian, philosopher, son of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad (1933-2008)
  29. Josh Gibson, athlete, Negro Leagues baseball all-star (1911-1947)
  30. Richard Wright, author, political activist (1908-1960)
  31. Charles R. Drew, physician, surgeon, medical researcher (1904-1950)
  32. Cover page of “Walker’s Appeal” by abolitionist and polemicist David Walker (1796-1830)
  33. B.S. Pinchback, soldier, publisher, governor of Louisiana (1837-1921)
  34. Claude McKay, poet, writer (1889-1948)
  35. Henry O. Tanner, artist (1859-1937)
  36. Charles Lenox Remond, abolitionist, social activist (1810-1873)
  37. Harry Belafonte, singer, songwriter, actor, social activist (b. 1927)
  38. James Weldon Johnson, lawyer, educator, diplomat, Civil Rights leader (1871-1938)
  39. Joseph Cinqué, Amistad mutineer (1814-1879)
  40. Ron Karenga, academic, author, activist (b. 1941)
  41. Robert S. Abbott, journalist, lawyer, publisher (1870-1940)
  42. Channing Phillips, minister, activist, Civil Rights leader (1928-1987)
  43. Martin Luther King Jr, minister, author, Civil Rights leader (1929-1968)
  44. Eldridge Cleaver, political activist, writer (1935-1998)
  45. Pioneering African American politicians of the 1960s: (from left) Robert C. Weaver, first U.S. secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes; Washington, D.C., Mayor Walter E. Washington; Gary, Ind., Mayor Richard G. Hatcher
  46. Joe Louis, athlete, world heavyweight boxing champion (1914-1981)
  47. Jan Ernst Matzeliger, inventor (1852-1887)
  48. Muhammad Ali, athlete, three-time world heavyweight boxing champion (b. 1942)
  49. Thomas Sims, escaped slave (1824-?)
  50. Billie Holiday, singer, songwriter (1915-1959)
  51. Charles S. Johnson, sociologist, educator (1893-1956)
  52. (141) Bert Williams (1874-1922) and George Walker (1973-1911), entertainers
  53. Langston Hughes, poet, novelist, playwright, social activist (1902-1967)
  54. Franklin Frazier, sociologist, author (1894-1962)
  55. Ida B. Wells, sociologist, journalist, suffragist, Civil Rights activist (1862-1931)
  56. Toussaint L’Ouverture, soldier, statesman, revolutionary (1743-1803)
  57. James W.C. Pennington, minister, abolitionist (1809-1870)
  58. James McCune Smith, physician, author, abolitionist (1813-1865)
  59. Opera stars Leontyne Price (b. 1927) and husband, William Warfield (1920-2002)
  60. Francis Louis Cardozo, minister, educator, U.S. state legislator (1836-1903)
  61. James P. Beckwourth, mountain man, fur trader, explorer (1798-1866)
  62. Post-Civil War “Reconstructed” Constitution of Louisiana
  63. Roy Wilkins, Civil Rights leader (1901-1981)
  64. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer (1875-1912)
  65. James Varick, clergyman, bishop (1750-1828)
  66. Susie King Taylor, Civil War nurse, teacher, author (1848-1912)
  67. Lunsford Lane, businessman, author, lecturer (1803-1879)
  68. Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, musician, composer, bandleader (1899-1974)
  69. Gustavus Vassa, merchant, author, social activist (1745?-1797)
  70. Charles Young, soldier, diplomat, national parks superintendent (1864-1922)
  71. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., pastor, Civil Rights leader, U.S. congressman (1908-1972)
  72. Althea Gibson, athlete, Grand Slam tennis champion (1927-2003)
  73. (99) Ira Frederick Aldridge, actor, playwright (1807-1867)
  74. Jack Johnson, athlete, world heavyweight boxing champion (1878-1946)
  75. James Baldwin, novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, social critic (1924-1987)
  76. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin), political activist (b. 1943)
  77. Lewis Hayden, businessman, abolitionist, U.S. state legislator (1811-1889)
  78. Alain LeRoy Locke, writer, philosopher, educator (1885-1954)
  79. Sugar Ray Robinson, athlete, five-time world boxing champion (1921-1989)
  80. John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie, musician, composer, bandleader (1917-1993)
  81. Marie Weems, escaped slavery disguised as a man (1840-?)
  82. Jelly Roll Morton, musician, composer, bandleader (1890-1941)
  83. (111) Carter G. Woodson, historian, journalist, author (1875-1950)
  84. Civil War regiment of African American soldiers
  85. Walter E. Washington, first African American mayor of Washington, D.C. (1915-2003)
  86. Benjamin Banneker, scientist, surveyor, almanac author (1731-1806)
  87. Asa Phillip Randolph, social activist, labor leader, Civil Rights leader (1889-1979)
  88. Julian “Cannonball” Adderly, musician, composer (1928-1975)
  89. James Monroe Trotter, soldier, teacher, music historian (1842-1892)
  90. Emmett Till, teenage lynching victim (1941-1955)
  91. Paul Robeson, actor, singer, Civil Rights activist (1898-1976)
  92. Richard Allen, minister, educator, writer, founder of A.M.E. Church (1760-1831)
  93. Charlie Parker, musician, composer (1920-1955)
  94. 1840 painting of a slave market on the Kambia River coast of Africa
  95. Nat Turner, led failed slave rebellion in Virginia (1800-1831)
  96. Matthew Alexander Henson, explorer (1866-1955)
  97. John H. Johnson, businessman, publisher (1918-2005)
  98. Malcolm X, social/political activist, author (1925-1965)
  99. Ira F. Aldridge (see 73)
  100. Picking cotton
  101. Fisk Jubilee Singers, founded 1871, first ensemble to perform slave songs
  102. Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, writer, orator, statesman (1818-1895)
  103. E.B. DuBois, sociologist, historian, author, Civil Rights leader (1868-1963)
  104. Willie Mays, athlete, baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1931)
  105. Alexander T. Augusta, surgeon, first African American professor of medicine (1825-1890)
  106. Niagara Movement, seminal Civil Rights group co-founded by W.E.B. DuBois
  107. Alexandre Dumas, “Three Musketeers” author, grandson of a Haitian slave
  108. Henry Highland Garnet (see 23)
  109. Hattie McDaniel, actress, first African American Academy Award winner (1895-1952)
  110. Grantville T. Woods, engineer, inventor (1856-1910)
  111. Carter G. Woodson (see 83)
  112. William H. Carney, Civil War hero, Medal of Honor recipient (1840-1908)
  113. Crispus Attucks, first casualty of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770
  114. Nat King Cole, musician, singer (1919-1965)
  115. Dorie Miller, Pearl Harbor hero, killed in action in the Pacific in 1943
  116. George Washington Carver, botanist, agricultural chemist, researcher (1860?-1943)
  117. Richard Berry Harrison, actor, teacher, lecturer (1864-1935)
  118. Lewis H. Latimer, engineer, inventor, author (1848-1928)
  119. Martin R. Delany, physician, journalist, abolitionist, soldier (1812-1885)
  120. Andrew Bryan, clergyman, founder of First African Baptist Church (1737-1812)
  121. John B. Russworm, abolitionist, journalist, publisher (1799-1851)
  122. Elijah Muhammad, social activist, Nation of Islam leader (1897-1975)
  123. Dred Scott, slave, unsuccessfully petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for his freedom
  124. Samuel Eli Cornish, minister, abolitionist journalist, publisher (1795-1858)
  125. Mary Edmonia Lewis, artist, sculptor (1844-1907)
  126. Slaves crossing the Ohio River to freedom
  127. Black Panthers march to protest at the UN in New York City in September 1968
  128. William Wells Brown, abolitionist, writer, lecturer, historian (1818-1884)
  129. Whitney M. Young, Civil Rights leader (1921-1971)
  130. Roy Campanella, baseball Hall of Famer (1921-1993) with teammate Jackie Robinson
  131. Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, social activist, humanitarian (1822-1913)
  132. Father Divine, spiritual leader (1876-1965)
  133. Adam Perry, railroad fireman, slave
  134. Miles Davis, musician, composer, bandleader (1926-1991)
  135. John Mercer Langston, attorney, educator, activist, U.S. congressman (1829-1897)
  136. Louis Armstrong, musician, composer, singer, actor, bandleader (1901-1971)
  137. Sojourner Truth, abolitionist, social activist (1797?-1883)
  138. Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet, novelist, playwright (1872-1906)
  139. Assault of the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteers on Fort Wagner, South Carolina, July 18, 1863
  140. Henry Ossian Flipper, first African American to graduate from West Point (1856-1940)
  141. George Walker (see 52)
  142. 1955 photo of Civil Rights leaders Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King Jr.
  143. South Carolina Volunteers, all-black Civil War regiment
  144. Florence Mills, singer, dancer, comedian (1895-1927)
  145. Estavanico, explorer (1500?-1539?)
  146. Marcus Garvey, political activist, journalist, publisher, entrepreneur (1887-1940)
  147. Tom Molineux, bare-knuckle prizefighter (1784-1818)
  148. George Henry White, attorney, banker, U.S. congressman (1852-1918)
  149. John Roy Lynch, soldier, attorney, writer, U.S. congressman (1847-1939)
  150. 1870 photo of Howard University in Washington, D.C., three years after its founding
  151. Nicholas Biddle, first African American soldier known to have served in the Union Army in the Civil War, wounded in 1861 (1796-1876)
  152. Black cavalry soldiers in Cuba during the Spanish-American War
  153. Shirley Chisholm, educator, author, first African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress
  154. Electioneering among black voters in the Reconstruction Era
  155. Civil War recruiting poster aimed at African Americans
  156. John Hanks Alexander, first African American to hold a regular command in the U.S. Army (1864-1894)
  157. Thomas “Fats” Waller, musician, singer, composer (1904-1943)
  158. Sammy Davis Jr., dancer, singer, actor (1925-1990)
  159. Medgar Evers, activist whose murder in Mississippi helped galvanize national attention on the Civil Rights struggle in the South (1925-1963)
  160. Lemuel Haynes, religious leader, abolitionist (1753-1833)
  161. Shirley Verrett, singer, international opera star (1931-2010)