People & Groups
developed the technical plans for the filaments for the electric light bulb and evaporative air conditioner among other things
under this, any born during the United States is a citizen.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
a nineteenth century dance ridiculing Black people that was transformed into a system of racial hate and segregation
What is Jim Crow?
the term for the, often, violent process by which white conservative democrats regained political control of a southern state from black and white republicans during Reconstruction
What is redemption?
Democrats used a combination of _______________________ practices such as intimidation, poll taxes, violence and literacy tests to prevent Black people from voting
What is disenfranchisement?
A large organization of Black southern farmers that organized for improved conditions and income for Black landowners, renters and sharecroppers
What is the Colored Farmer's Alliance?
What are the Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871?
asserted that life in society was competitive, resources are inherently scarce, and some races are naturally fitter and more superior than others
what is social darwinism?
This class does not cover the ___________ era
What is the antebellum era?
racial uplift was a common attitude among the emerging Black middle class and ________________
Who are the Talented Tenth?
_________was a co-founder of the National Association of Colored Women in 1896 and led an anti-lynching campaign through public activism, speech and journalism.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
Passed in 1896, this ruled that segregation did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
a strategy to disempower, subjugate and control a population by barring them from a quality of life and rights to something especially voting
what is disenfranchisement?
the denial of responsibility, involvement or connection to?
what is disavowal?
The Civil Rights Acts of 1875 which outlawed racial discrimination in public accommodations was invalidated by the Supreme Court in___________
When is 1883?
who was Amy Garvey?
funded the creation of colleges focused on technical education
What was the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862?
On ___________________, a day dedicated to Black scientific, industrial and agricultural progress during the Columbian Exposition, one of the key debates among Black participants was DuBois argument of the color line and the 'Negro Problem
What was the Colored American Day?