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A white mob effectively destroyed what black Florida town in 1923, and managed to conceal their crime from general knowledge for several decades?
President Wilson lavished praise on The Birth of a Nation, a 1915 movie which glorified
The failure of which crop contributed greatly to Afro-Caribbean migration into the United States in the early twentieth century?
In "The Conservation of Races," who articulated the idea that black Americans faced a "dilemma" as a result of their "double-consciousness" of being both Negroes and Americans at the same time?
Booker T. Washington stirred outrage among many white southerners by accepting an invitation to dine in the White House with President
Which African-American writer was accused of being a “race traitor” for arguing in his book The American Negro that blacks were inherently inferior to whites?
The General Education Board and the Slater Fund were examples of foundations to aid southern black schools established by
Which African-American painter spent much of his career in Europe, where he countered demeaning images of blacks through works like The Banjo Lesson?
Which co-editor of the Boston Guardian, and first black man accepted to Phi Beta Kappa, launched a public campaign in 1901 to oppose Booker T. Washington’s views and challenge Washington’s leadership of the black community?
In the decades from 1890 to 1910, the number of southern blacks in which profession shot up enormously?
Which black boxer's successful defense of his championship against the "Great White Hope," Jim Jeffries, in 1910 led to race riots and the passing of a bill outlawing the showing of fight films in theaters?
The line, "In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the five fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress," came from an 1895 speech which catapulted whom to national fame?
What was the name of the magazine published by the NAACP?
Which female entrepreneur grew wealthy by marketing a beauty system centered on hair-lengthening, which she linked to racial uplift?
After gaining their freedom, black families preferred that female members
Who played a crucial role as a fundraiser in the formative years of the Tuskegee Institute before marrying Booker T. Washington in 1885?
Which black inventor patented fifty different devices, most of them dealing with the lubrication of machines, and successfully contested claims against the genuineness of his designs?
What was the only ex-Confederate state to be exempted from the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
What is the claim to fame of Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce?
White philanthropic support for black southern schools increased as a result of whose emergence as a national figure?