Today’s Information On African American History: November 15, 2009

B.B. King, “Ragtime,”“Let My People Go”, and More!

The answers to last issue’s questions are: Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey; Lionel Ritchie; George Dixon; Dr. Carter G. Woodson; and one day.

Questions for today:

1. Where is the original daft of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln?

2. What was the largest minority-owned bus supply company in the United States in 1983?

3. B. B. King wrote a jingle for what corporation?

4. Where was the first Peach Blossom Classic played?

5. The verse, “Let my people go” is taken from what song? and

6. What African American actress played the wife of Howard Rollins in the movie “Ragtime”?

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

Credits:

The BlacFax Trivia Game

Next time: February; The Systems and Applied Science Corporation; Clarence Carter; Most touchdowns on kickoff returns; Black Enterprise; and 1967.