Black History Trivia Question 3
Melville Jean Herskovits
Bachelor of Philosophy
Chicago
Anthropology
Columbia University
1948
African Studies
Northwestern University
Jewish Immigrants
The Myth of the Negro past
The Black Panther Party
Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
"The Shadows are all mine"
#1_______ _______ _______ was the first black graduate of the #2 ________ _____ __ _____ _______. Born in Philadelphia on April 30, 1881, he was educated at the #3 ________ __ ______ ___, #4 _____ ____ _____ and the #5 __________ _____ ______ ___ _____________ _____ before enrolling at the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating from U of P in 1902 with a degree in #6 _____________ he went to work for the architect #7 ______ _________. He became chief designer for the Horace Trumbauer Company in #8_____ at the age of #9 _______. He was responsible for the design of the #10 ________________ _____ _________, #11 ____ _____ _________ and #12 _____ _______ __________. Years later he would design buildings on the campus of #12 _______ _______________. Racial prejudice prevented him from being admitted to the #13 ______________ _____________ ___ ______________ until 1942. He died in Philadelphia on #14 ______ ___ ______ but few knew that he had forever changed Philadelphia's #15_____ __________ as well as American architecture.
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