Black Disabled Trivia

A Black Disabled History quiz by Leroy F. Moore, Jr.

1. This slave rescued other slaves and brought them to freedom. Who is she? What was her disability?
2. This famous soul singer wrote a book in 1997 called “Truly Blessed”, about his life before and after his accident.
3. This African American is the first deaf professional baseball player.
4. This Black actor is an inspirational speaker who played in “Boyz N The Hood”.
5. A 1992 comedy show, “In Living Color”, introduced the first Black disabled super hero.
6. This Black amputee, 1984 Olympic skier and author, was the first Director for President Clinton’s Human Capital Issues on the National Economic Council.
7. DuBose Heyward’s book, “Porgy” about a Black disabled beggar, became a storyline of a Black opera. Name the opera.
8. In 1828 or 1829, so the story is told, in free Cincinnati, or down the river in slave Louisville, or maybe in Pittsburgh (or was it Baltimore?), an obscure actor named Thomas Dartmouth “Daddy” Rice came across a crippled black stablehand doing a grotesquely gimpy dance. Dartmouth “Daddy” Rice made this dance popular in minstrel shows. His name was later used as laws in the show that separated Blacks and whites in public areas.
9. This Blind Black Jazz singer sang with Duke Ellington’s orchestra before having several po a solo artist. He also marched with Martin Luther King Jr. & said, “ “Tho’ I’m blind I can see the injustice here.”
10. He was the President of the Rock Hill NAACP and in 1961 held a “wheelchair sit-in.” He rolled up to the lunch counter in his wheelchair at McCrory Five & Dime and asked for service, but was denied. He claimed that he did not break any laws because he never actually sat on a lunch counter seat.”
11. This famous peg leg dancer owned a country club for Black Americans in upstate New York during 1951-1987 along with his wife.
12. She is a Black deaf actress and has played in movies like “Barber Shop 2” and in “Compensation”.
13. This Black amputee, a 1984 Olympic skier and author, was the first Director for former President Bill Clinton’s Human Capital Issues on National Economic Council.
14. He was in a car accident that left him a wheelchair user. He is now a CEO of 2nd Generation Records and building a entertainment complex in Detroit MI. He wrote a book about his life entitled, “Going Full Circle: From Life to Death to Life”.
15. He was a Black disabled activist and Black Panther. He helped to bring the Black Panthers into the San Francisco 504 protest in 1977 at the federal building. It was written that his frame was, revolutionary black nationalism and disability power had already combined.
16. This national organization became the first national organization for and by Black Disabled people and their supporters.
17. This all Black Deaf Hip-Hop dance troupe is from Washington, D.C.
18. This Black folk singer used to lead Black blind blues singers all through the south as a little boy in the early 1920’s.
19. He was one of the first blind music producers in Oakland, CA Hip-Hop scene back in the 80’s and early 90’s. He worked on Tony! Toni! Toné! gold album, “Who?”, and had an accessible studio in the Oakland Hills.
20. The disability angle was all over the music video of Phif Dawg’s Dear Dilla as it opens up in the hospital showing Phif Dawg recovering from diabetes while rapping to Dilla who was on the other side of curtain recovering from Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura ( a rare blood disease), and lupus). Like Frida Kahlo, Dilla is doing his art aka making beats on his MP in bed but comes to find out when he pulls back the hospital curtains he finds out that he just thought of Dilla because as the viewer knows that this song and video was a tribute to Dilla. The video goes on with Phif dawg trying to correcting his eating habits, cutting out sugar, and while he is backstage he remembers Dilla’s wheelchair because one of Dilla’s last live performance when he was a wheelchair user but in the middle of this memory Phif has diabetes flare with syringes falling to the floor.What year did rapper, Phif Dawg did the music video, Dear Dilla?

ANSWERS

1. This slave rescued other slaves and brought them to freedom. Who is she? Harriet Tubman. What was her disability? She had Narcolepsy or sleeping spells.
2. This famous soul singer wrote a book in 1997 called “Truly Blessed”, about his life before and after his accident. Teddy Pendergrass
3. This African American is the first deaf professional baseball player. Curtis Pride
4. This Black actor is an inspirational speaker who played in “Boyz N The Hood”. Reggie White
5. A 1992 comedy show, “In Living Color”, introduced the first Black disabled super hero. “Handiman”
6. This Black amputee, 1984 Olympic skier and author, was the first Director for President Clinton’s Human Capital Issues on the National Economic Council. Bonnie St. John
7. DuBose Heyward’s book, “Porgy” about a Black disabled beggar, became a storyline of a Black opera. Name the opera. “Porgy & Bess”
8. In 1828 or 1829, so the story is told, in free Cincinnati, or down the river in slave Louisville, or maybe in Pittsburgh (or was it Baltimore?), an obscure actor named Thomas Dartmouth “Daddy” Rice came across a crippled black stable hand a grotesquely gimpy dance. Dartmouth “Daddy” Rice made this dance popular in minstrel shows. His name was later used as laws in the southern United States that separated Blacks and whites in public areas. Jim Crow
9. This Blind Black Jazz singer sang with Duke Ellington’s orchestra before having several pop hits as a solo artist. He also marched with Martin Luther King Jr. & said, “ “Tho’ I’m blind I can see the injustice here.” Al Hibler
10. He was the President of the Rock Hill NAACP and in 1961 held a “wheelchair sit-in.” He rolled up to the lunch counter in his wheelchair at McCrory Five & Dime and asked for service, but was denied. He claimed that he did not break any laws because he never actually sat on a lunch counter seat.” Rev. Cecil Ivory
11. This famous peg leg dancer, along with his wife, owned a country club for Black Americans in upstate New York during 1951-1987. Peg Leg Bates
12. She is a Black deaf actress and has played in movies like “Barber Shop 2” and in “Compensation”. Michelle Banks
13. This Black amputee, a 1984 Olympic skier and author, was the first Director for former President Bill Clinton’s Human Capital Issues on National Economic Council. Bonnie St. John
14. He was in a car accident that left him a wheelchair user. He is now a CEO of 2nd Generation Records and building a entertainment complex in Detroit MI. He wrote a book about his life entitled, “Going Full Circle: From Life to Death to Life”. Kenneth Tyson, Jr.
15. He was a Black disabled activist and Black Panther. He helped to bring the Black Panthers into the San Francisco 504 protest in 1977 at the federal building. It was written that his frame was, revolutionary black nationalism and disability power had already combined. Brad Lomax
16. This organization became the first national organization for and by Black Disabled people and their supporters. The National Black Disability Coalition
17. This all Black Deaf Hip-Hop dance troupe is from Washington, D.C. The Wild Zappers
18. This Black folk singer used to lead Black blind blues singers all through the south as a little boy in the early 1920’s. Josh White
19. He was one of the first blind music producers in Oakland, CA Hip-Hop scene back in the 80’s and early 90’s. He worked on the Tony! Toni! Toné! gold album, “Who?”, and had an accessible studio in the Oakland Hills. Joe Caper
20. Phife Dawg released the music video Dear Dilla in the year of 2014 and passed away in 2016, only two years later. Krip-Hop Nation views the video of the song Dear Dilla as one of many teachable connections between Hip-Hop and disability. These connections must continue to be made and written about for another good example, Pharoahe Monch’s music video, Still Standing, where he deals with asthma as a young boy and now as a man. Krip-Hop Nation bringing that critical disability scholarship to Hip-Hop.