JEOPARDY FOR Y'ALL! JEOPARDY FOR US!

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  1. 4. While Ebony is for the black community in general, this magazine launched in 1970 is geared especially to black women
  2. 5. In 1919, as part of his Back to Africa plan, Marcus Garvey founded this, contrasting with the name of a British ship line
  3. 11. This playwright's childhood home in the historically Black Hill District of Pittsburgh has become an arts center
  4. 13. Echoing a name from about 19 centuries before, Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led a slave revolt in Haiti, was known as "The Black" this
  5. 14. From around the mid-1910s, families vacationed in "Black Eden", Idlewild in the central region of this state's Lower Peninsula
  6. 15. Featuring an all-Black cast, songs like "Ease On Down The Road" & the costumes seen here, this 1975 Broadway musical had a rough beginning before becoming a smash hit & winning 7 Tonys
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  1. 1. In 1924 the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary became this historically black college for women
  2. 2. The 19th of this month is celebrated as the date Texas slaves learned of their freedom in 1865
  3. 3. Before she made history in Congress, Barbara Jordan was the first Black woman elected to this state's Senate
  4. 6. In 2022, Erin Jackson made history as the first Black woman to win individual gold at the Winter Olympics, winning for this sport
  5. 7. Frank Rich wrote you could feel Broadway history being made in this musical about a black female singing group
  6. 8. In 1869 Ebenezer Bassett, the USA's first black diplomat, became minister to this French-speaking nation
  7. 9. In July 1881 this famous college opened in Alabama with Booker T. Washington as its first principal
  8. 10. In 1930 "Don't buy where you can't work" was a slogan of this economic strategy vs. stores that wouldn't hire African Americans
  9. 12. A prosperous neighborhood known as Black Wall Street was burned in a 1921 massacre in this city that left 10,000 homeless