Today’s Information On African American History: November 12, 2009

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The answers to last issue’s questions are: Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, William J. Knox and J. Ernest Wilkins, Fats Domino, The Harlem Globetrotters, “Black Bourgeoisie,” and Lt. Flap.

Questions for today:

1. How many lynchings were recorded in the United States in 1918?

2. Who developed the active ingredient used in foam fire extinguishers used in WW II?

3. Where was “Fats Domino” born?

4. What year was the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association formed?

5. What African American historian wrote the book “From Slavery to Freedom”? and

6. What was the name of “Joe Palooka’s” African American valet?

Look for the answers in the next issue of: “Today’s Information on African American History!”

Credits:

The BlacFax Trivia Game

Next time: Congressman Charles C. Diggs, Jr., Progress Plaza, Luther Vandross, St. Louis Cardinals, Morgan State College, Baltimore MD., and Six cents

You need to check out this web site…it may blow your mind: http://www.freemaninstitute.com/RTGseminar.htm

And, here are some more:

www.Black101.com

www.BlackChurchMissions.org

www.RosettaStoneReplicas.com

DID YOU KNOW? There is another resource to help you learn more about Black History?

Check out: www.yenoba.com

And another? Check out: http://www.blackhistorypages.net/index.php

SPECIAL NOTE:

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