QUEst for Blackness – October 2011 (Answers)

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