What is the name of the famous 20th century playwright with a dedicated museum established in Pittsburgh, PA?
1. Ntzoke Shange
2. Lorraine Hansberry
3. August Wilson
4. Ossie Davis
August Wilson
The August Wilson Cultural Center is named for the prolific playwright, August Wilson, Pulitzer Prize winning author of ten plays which focus on Pittsburgh, his hometown. Mr. Wilson died in 2005.
Who is the first Black athlete to have a cultural center named in his honor?
1. Muhammad Ali
2. Wilt Chamberlain
3. Joe Louis
4. Jackie Robinson
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali, formerly Cassius Clay, is the first Black athlete with a museum or cultural center named in his honor. Established in 2005, the Muhammad Ali Center is located in Ali’s birth home of Knoxville, TN. The Jackie Robinson Museum is scheduled to open in 2019 in NYC.
What U.S. city has the most African American museums?
1. Detroit
2. Chicago
3. Atlanta
4. New York City
New York City
New York City has the most African American museums with at least ten. They are: 1. African American Burial Grounds National Monument, Manhattan 2. Louis H. Lattimer House, Queens 3. Louis Armstrong House, Queens 4. Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, Manhattan 5. Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), Brooklyn 6. Sandy Ground Historical Museum, Staten Island 7. StoreFront Museum, Queens 8. Studio Museum in Harlem, Manhattan 9. Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn 10. The Jackie Robinson Museum is scheduled to open in 2019
What is the oldest museum in the U.S. dedicated to African Americans?
1. African American Civil War Museum
2. Amistad Research Center
3. The Harriet Tubman Museum
4. The Old Slave Mart Museum
The Old Slave Mart Museum
Operating off and on since 1938, the Old Slave Mart Museum in Charleston, SC, once housed the local slave auction. The slave market was established in 1856 and slave auctions were held at the site until 1863. In 1865 when the Union Army took over Charleston, the slave market was closed permanently. It now interprets the history of the city’s slave trade.
The Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland, College Park is named for what renowned African American artist?
1. Jacob Lawrence
2. Elizabeth Catlett
3. Henry Ossawa Turner
4. David Driskell
David Driskell
The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora is named for the distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Art, Artist, Art Historian, Collector, Curator, and Philanthropist.
The A. Phillip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum is located in what city?
1. San Francisco, CA
2. Memphis, TN
3. Chicago, IL
4. Detroit, MI
Chicago, IL
The A. Phillip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum, established in Chicago in 1995, was named for Asa Phillip Randolph, the organizer and leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first African American labor union which represented the Pullman Porters.
Which of the listed museums is not located in the Delta Region of Mississippi?
1. B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center
2. Delta Center for Culture and Learning
3. Delta Arts Center
4. Delta Blues Museum
Delta Arts Center
The mission of Delta Arts Center of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is to enrich the lives of area residents by stimulating interest in American arts and humanities, with emphasis on the contributions of African-Americans.
What is the name of the museum that tells the history of the contributions of the 209,145 members of the United States Colored Troops during the “war between the states”?
1. The Museum of the United States Colored Troops
2. The Civil War and Civil Rights Museum
3. African American Civil War Museum
4. The U.S. Black Military Museum
African American Civil War Museum
The African American Civil War Museum, established in 1998, is located in Washington,
Where is the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum (Center for African American Military History) located?
1. Buffalo, NY
2. Los Angeles. CA
3. Houston, TX
4. Dallas. Texas
Houston, TX
The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, also called the Center for African American Military History was founded in 2001 by Vietnam veteran, Captain Paul J. Matthews. It is located in Houston, Texas.
What is the name of the umbrella organization that provides information related to African American museums and cultural centers across the U.S.?
1. African American Alliance of Museums
2. The Coalition of African American Cultural Centers
3. The Association of African American Museums
4. Unified African American Museums and Cultural Centers
The Association of African American Museums
Organized in Detroit in 1978, the African American Museums Association began as a consortium of six Black museums; in 1997 the members voted to change the name to The Association of African American Museums. Its membership has grown to nearly 500 museums across the country.
What is the museum which was established at the Lorraine Motel, the site of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination in Memphis, Tennessee?
1. The Rights and Justice Museum
2. The National Civil Rights Museum
3. The Martin Luther King Jr. Center
4. The Civil Rights Museum
The National Civil Rights Museum
Established in 1991, the National Civil Rights Museum shares the culture and lessons from the American Civil Rights Movement through interactive exhibits, historic collections, dynamic speakers and special events.
Where is the first museum dedicated to Black Science and Technology located?
1. Kansas City, Kansas
2. Springfield, Illinois
3. Springfield, Massachusetts
4. Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri
The home of the Institute of Black Invention and Technology, Inc is Kansas City, Missouri; however, the museum travels all around the country with the mission of researching, collecting, and preserving inventions and innovations from early African cultures through African American enslavement to the present.
Which two cities claim historical sites devoted to the Tuskegee Airmen?
1. Tuskegee, AL and Detroit, MI
2. Chicago, IL and Toledo, OH
3. Tuskegee, AL and Memphis, TN
4. Memphis, TN and Chicago, IL
Tuskegee, AL and Detroit, MI
Tuskeegee, AL and Detroit, MI. The Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Alabama, commemorates the contributions of African-American airmen in World War II. Moton Field was the site of primary flight training of the Tuskegee Airmen, and is now operated by the National Park Service. In Detroit MI the Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum is dedicated to telling the combat history of the noted Tuskegee Airmen of World War II as it also chronicles the history and contributions of African Americans to aviation and aerospace science. In Tuskegee AL, the actual field, Moton Field, where the Tuskegee Airmen trained, serves to commemorate the contributions of African-Americans in World War II. It is now operated by the National Park Service.
How many museums and cultural centers in the U.S. are devoted to African American music, according to the Association of African American Museums?
1. 9
2. 6
3. 2
4. 7
6
According to the AAAM, there are six museums and cultural centers in the U.S. dedicated to African American music. They are: 1. Jazz Museum, located in Kansas City, Missouri;2. Delta Blues Museum located in Clarksdale, Mississippi; 3. National Blues Museum, in St. Louis, Missouri; 4. Stax Museum of American Soul Music, in Memphis, Tennessee; and 5. the. Blues Foundation/Blues Hall of Fame, also in Memphis, Tennessee and 6, the Bessie Smith Cultural Center in Chattanooga Tennessee, dedicate to the Empress of Blues. The Motown Museum in Detroit Michigan and any others are not, at this time, listed with the Association of African American Museums.
Which African American public servants have a museum and historical society dedicated to them and their work?
1. Paramedics
2. Firefighters
3. Policemen
4. Judges
Firefighters
The mission of the African American Fire Fighters Historical Society, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is to collect, preserve and disseminate historical data and information relating to the contributions made by fire fighters of color throughout the country.
What organization hosts a directory of most of the African American museums in the U.S.?
1. Association of African American Museums
2. Organization of Black Museums in the U. S.
3. African American Museums in America
4. American Museums of African Desc
Association of African American Museums
The Association of African American Museums hosts a “global directory of African American museums and affiliate institutions,” including over 300 museums, cultural centers, libraries, galleries, etc.
What is the name of the first wax museum in the U.S. dedicated to the history and culture of African Americans?
1. National Great Blacks in Wax Museum
2. Madame Toussad’s African American Wax Museum
3. African American Wax Museum
4. Smithsonian African American Museum of Wax
National Great Blacks in Wax Museum
The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum is a unique museum, the first one of wax in Baltimore, Maryland and the first wax museum of African American history in the nation. Established in 1983, it is the brainchild of Drs. Elmer and Joanne Martin of Baltimore.
Who is one of the worlds’ most renowned African American dancers whose collection of symbolic and functional art, including more than 250 African and Caribbean art objects from more than 50 countries, is housed in a museum bearing his/her name?
1. Geoffrey Holder
2. Katherine Dunham
3. Pearl Primus
4. Alvin Ailey
Katherine Dunham
The Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts and Humanities, located in East St. Louis, Illinois houses her collection of tapestries, paintings, sculpture, musical instruments and ceremonial costumes from around the world.
The Margaret Walker Center is located in which state?
1. Illinois
2. Alabama
3. Georgia
4. Mississippi
Mississippi
Although Margaret Walker was born in Birmingham, Alabama, lived and worked in several states. and died in Chicago Illinois, she spent most of her professional literary and academic life in Jackson, Mississippi at Jackson State University, 1949-1979. There the Institute for the Study of History, Life, and Culture of Black People, which she founded in 1968 became The Margaret Walker Center after her retirement.
What is the name of the museum named for and dedicated to the Black founder of a major U.S. city?
1. Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center
2. DuSable Museum of African American History
3. G.W. Carver Interpretive Museum
4. Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts and Culture
DuSable Museum of African American History
This important museum is named for Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, a Haitian of African and French descent, who in 1779 established the trading post and permanent settlement which would later become Chicago. The DuSable Museum was founded in 1961 by teacher and art historian Dr. Margaret Burroughs and other leading Chicago citizens to preserve and interpret experiences and achievements of people of African descent.
What museum is informally called the Lynching Memorial Museum?
1. African Burial Ground National Monument
2. National Museum of African American History and Culture
3. National Civil Rights Museum
4. National Memorial for Peace and Justice
National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Located in Montgomery, AL,The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial, is a national memorial to commemorate the victims of lynching in the United States. It opened to the public in April of 2018.
The Bessie Smith Cultural Center (the Bessie) was formerly called what?
1. The New Orleans Center for Music and Blues
2. The Black Historical Center of Macon Georgia
3. The Cleveland Cultural Center
4. The Chattanooga Afro-American Museum
The Chattanooga Afro-American Museum
Located in Chattanooga TN, the Bessie was formerly called the Chattanooga Afro-American Museum. Its mission is to provide a center where the community can celebrate education, art and entertainment.
The American Jazz Museum is located in what city?
1. Kansas City, KS
2. New Orleans, LA
3. Kansas City, MO
4. Harlem, NYC
Kansas City, MO
Located in the Jazz District of Kansas City, Missouri, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibitions and films, visual arts exhibitions.
