High School Round 2 (Lightning)

The Blues musical genre emerged from which of these heavily populated black isolated areas?

• East Texas
• Mississippi Delta
• The Piedmont
• All of these

In 1997, musician Wynton Marsalis received a Pulitzer Prize for his operatic narrative on slavery titled what?

• Porgy and Bess
• Riverboat
• Blood on the Fields
• Blood, Sweat and Tears

She was the first African-American female owned Wall Street financial services corporation.

• Ursula M. Burns
• Debbie Allen
• Catherine L. Hughes
• Patricia Garrison-Corbin

Billy R. Vickers is the president and chief executive officer of an Ohio based parent corporation of a group of companies -- the combined revenue of these companies was $1.1 billion in 2013. What is the name of the parent company?

• Xerox
• Modular Assemblies Innovations (MAI)
• Radio One
• Coleman Manufacturing

This is the only California community to be founded, financed and governed by African-Americans. Created in 1908, the town was built with the intention of establishing a self-sufficient, all-Black city where African-Americans could live their lives free of racial discrimination.

• Allensworth
• Allentown
• Fort Worth
• Carmel

Dr. Aaron McDuffie Moore was the first Black person to practice medicine in the city of Durham. He became the second president of what company in 1919?

• Durham Mutual Life Insurance
• NC Mutual Life Insurance
• Piedmont Mutual Life Insurance
• Bull City Mutual Life Insurance

Author, educator, and civil rights activist W.E.B. DuBois published "The Souls of Black Folk", a collection of essays and sketches, in 1903. DuBois was one of the leading African-American thinkers and writers of his time, and was the first Black to earn (1895) a PhD at what university?

• Temple University
• Brown University
• Harvard University
• Yale University

He was hired in 1896 by Booker T. Washington to teach agriculture at Tuskegee Institute, and went on to do innovative research on Southern crops and farming methods?

• George Washington Carver
• Lewis Latimer
• W.E. DuBois
• Rev. Morgan London Latta

Finish the quote by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. "I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of my father and mother, and the power of the mass action of the ________”

• Government
• University
• Church
• None of the above

He was the first person to perform open heart surgery, opening the chest cavity successfully without the patient dying of infection?

• Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
• Daniel Boone
• Dr. William Hinton
• Dr. Charles Drew