Pride Bowl 2019 Practice - Roaring 20s

Question 1

Singer and trumpet player from New Orleans who made jazz popular across the country

Accepted Answer

Louis Armstrong

Question 2

Wrote novels, essays, & plays that criticize society’s discrimination against African Americans

Accepted Answer

James Baldwin

Question 3

Famous author & anthropologist whose writing focused on racial struggles in the American South

Accepted Answer

Zora Neale Hurtson

Question 4

Leader of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote jazz poetry that promoted self-love and black pride

Accepted Answer

Langston Hughes

Question 5

Believed education was the way towards African American equality, wrote The Souls of Black Folk

Accepted Answer

W.E.B. DuBois

Question 6

A classic, romantic poet who was often criticized by other artists for not writing about race

Accepted Answer

Countee Cullen

Question 7

Painter, illustrator, & teacher who made art about social issues, race, & segregation

Accepted Answer

Aaron Douglass

Question 8

A jazz singer known as the First Lady of Song or the Queen of Jazz, won 14 Grammy awards

Accepted Answer

Ella Fitzgerald

Question 9

Movement that focused on African-American music, poetry, literature & arts in the 1920s in NYC

Accepted Answer

Harlem Renaissance

Question 10

Founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association, promoter of the “Back to Africa” movement

Accepted Answer

Marcus Garvey

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