Harlem Renaissance
Which book did Zora Neale Hurston write?
A) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
B) Strange Fruit
C) Their Eyes Were Watching God
C) Their Eyes Were Watching God
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Cultural explosion among African Americans
Who is the person on Takeyah's culminating piece slide?
Maya Angelou
What were Black Codes?
Rules made to make it easier to arrest and put African Americans into Legal Slavery.
How many of you were paying attention? (Everyone Answer.)
All of us. (Extra 50 points each)
Countee Cullen was known for what?
A) Writing about unjust events
B) Being the 21st president of the United States
C) Creating sculptures depicting peaceful African American life
A) Writing about unjust events
What was the period of severe violence against African Americans called?
Red Summer
First Black woman to be vice president of Colombia
Francia Márquez
What were literacy tests?
Tests made to restrict Africans from voting.
Who wrote the poem titled "Spirit Unbroken"?
Takeyah
What did A. Philip Randolph do?
A) Create a newspaper called the Messenger
B) Create sculptures depicting peaceful African American life
C) Was the first African American to vote
A) Create a newspaper called the Messenger
What was the period where African Americans migrated to the North called?
Great Migration
Who performed at the Super Bowl LX performance?
Coco Jones
What are Grandfather Clauses?
Clauses (rules) that stated that a person could only vote if their grandfather voted.
In what time period did African Americans face many of their hardships?
18-1900s
When was the Harlem Renaissance?
1920s-1930s
Name a pull factor for the migration to the North
Safer communities
Economic opportunities
Encouragement from newspapers
A modern poet that was the Poetry Slam Champion
Elizabeth Acevado
What were three voting restrictions?
Literacy tests
Grandfather Clause
Poll tax
An example of separate but equal.
Separate bus seating
Separate water fountains
Separate buildings
Separate schools
Separate doorways
Name one thing you've learned from our presentation or a lesson that you can apply somewhere in your own life
Name a push factor for the migration to the North
Racial violence
Discrimination
Inequality
Lack of opportunity
What lessons have you learned that you can apply to your life today?
Was the argument in favor of segregation 'separate but equal' true? Why or why not?
It is not true. Though their situations may have been similar, things such as water fountains or bus sections for colored people were most always of lesser quality.
What is a culminating project?
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