QUEst for Blackness
(October 2011)
QUEst #1: I was born of slave parents in Selma, Alabama, worked as a barber’s apprentice, which gave me the idea for a “ready to use razor strop”.
The next time you sit in the barber’s chair think Black, who am I?
ANS: H. C. Haynes Source: http://www.gordon.army.mil/eoo/black3.htm
QUEst #2: I created New York’s Black Economic Research Center.
Black dollars anyone? I’m going to make it rain! Who am I?
ANS: Robert S. Browne (Source: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801EEDE123FF936A2575BC0A9629C8B63)
QUEst #3: I was the richest African American man in the 1980’s.
Can you taste the Blackness I’m processing? Who am I?
ANS: Reginald Lewis (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Lewis)
QUEst #4: It’s between me and another person as to who opened the oldest black-owned cemetery in the United States making burial plots available to Black people. I also organized a bank that closed during the depression, but not a single depositor lost money.
Resting in peaceful Blackness, who am I?
ANS: Jerome Bacon / John Cornelius Asbury Source: http://www.bloggingyourdreams.com/2008/04/the_history_of_eden_cemetery_p.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_Cemetery%2C_Collingdale