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