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This first Northern black to to serve in Congress was:
What is Oscar DePriest?
In 1915 and in wake of the Release of the Brith of a nation, the Ku Klux Klan revived in this U.S. State.
What is Georgia?
This motion picture did more than any single thing to nurture and promote the myth of Black inferiority during Reconstruction.
What is The Brith of a Nation?
This was a global movement organized at the turn of the century that committed itself to African self-determination and the end of European domination of the African continent.
What is Pan-Africanism?
First Lady __________________ strongly influenced her husband and his administration to open the door to African Americans in government jobs.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt.
This man (the author of Lift Every Voice and Sing) became the precursor of the Harlem Renaissance as well as integral part of the movement.
What (Who) is James Weldon Johnson?
Nine young African American males were arrested, charged, and tried for rape of two white women in this southern state.
What is Alabama?
In 1932, the US. Public Health Service conducted a medical experiment to study the long-term consequences of untreated syphilis in African American men.
What is the Tuskegee Experiment?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced this policy (a series of novel federal programs) to help lift the country out of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
_______________ were a series of race riots that occured throughout the country in 1919.
What is the "Red Summer"
What (Who) is Woodrow Wilson?
The Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was founded in this Caribbean country?
What is Jamaica?
This movement/event as part of the New negro arts movement that encompassed the ferment of Black life in the metropolis and flourished in other places as well, such as Chicago and Washington, DC.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
After the Election of Franklin D. Roosevelt, African Americans shifted their allegiance to this political party.
What is the Democratic Party?
By 1950, the last of the the _____________ had been released from prison.
What (Who) is the Scottsboro Boys?
This distinguished group of African Americans who advised President Franklin D. Roosevelt were famously known by this moniker.
What is Roosevelt's "Black Cabinet"?
The 369th Infantry Regiment, the most famous African American Unit during World War I, hailed from this state.
What is New York?
Between 1910-29, African Americans moved in large numbers from the American South to urban areas in the North and to a lesser extent, the American West.
What is The Great Migration?
This organization emerged as the largest and most militant Black organization. It claimed two million members in 30 chapters in the United States and West Indies.
What is the Universal Negro Improvement Association?
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was known to have been intimate terms with________________, president of the National Council of Negro Women .
What (Who) is Mary McLeod Bethune?
To prove his physical fitness, this army officer traveled from Ohio to Washington D.C. on horseback?
What (Who is) Colonel Charles Young?
The nation's worst race riot occurred in this northern city.
What is Chicago?
To further promote the study of Black History, in 1926, Dr. Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week which later became this annual commemoration.
What is Black History Month?
This US Supreme Court decision decided that exclusion from Democratic primaries was an obvious violation of the 15th amendment.
What is Smith v. Allwright?
1915's notably film The Birth of a Nation was based on the violently antiblack writings of______________
What is Thomas Dixon