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Born in slavery, this individual emerged as the most prominent African American by the turn of the 20th century. He advocated for racial accommodation and moderation.
What is Booker T. Washington?
Homer Plessy is closely connected to this U.S. State
What is Louisiana?
This Amendment to the U.S. Constitution affirmed citizenship to African Americans and guaranteed them equal protection of the laws.
What is the 14th amendment?
State ______________ conventions in the 1880s/90s effectively codified White supremacy laws.
What is (are) constitutional (conventions)?
_____________ education is closely linked to W.E.B. Du Bois.
Liberal Arts
This organization was created to assist the freedpeople in their transition to freedom.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This U.S. State is the home of Hampton Institute; the birth place of industrial educational model for African Americans.
What is Virginia?
This 1896 Supreme Court decision sanctioned "seperate but equal" facilities for Blacks and Whites.
What is the Plessy v. Ferguson decision
This political party impeached the first sitting U.S. President in 1868?
What is (are) the Republicans?
Perhaps the most horrific form of racial violence was _________, the public murder, often a hanging , of an individual by a mob acting outside of law.
What is lynching?
Pseudoscientific theories (Social Darwinism) of racial evolution reinforced notions of white supremacy and can be attributed to this individual.
What (Who) is Charles Darwin?
In 1865, the Ku Klux Klan was organized in this U.S. State.
What is Tennessee?
_________codes sought to regulate and control almost every aspect of the freedmen's lives to the benefit of the southern whites
What is Black (Codes)?
In 1905 W.E.B. Du Bois launched this movement which became the precursor to the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
What is the Niagara movement?
When _______________ was elected President, Federal troops were withdrawn, the South returned to a policy of pre-Civil War status quo.
What (Who) is Rutherford B. Hayes?
This political party called on poor Whites and Blacks to stand together and work for the common good.
What is the Populist Party?
W.E.B. Du Bois is closely connected to this prominent American University.
What is Harvard College?
__________was a form of economic exploitation in which Black farmers were subjected to working the land and remaining in debt.
What is sharecropping?
In his 1895 speech in this American city, Booker T. Washington encouraged African Americans to focus on agriculture and remain out of politics.
What is Atlanta?
The 1866 _______ _________ Act was the precursor to the 14th amendment.
What is the Civil Right (Act)?
This individual, a journalist by training and documented lynchings, was among those African American leaders who offered a militant alternative to Booker T. Washington.
What is Ida B. Wells?
Florida, Louisiana, and this state were the remaining statement still under federal control when Reconstruction in 1876.
What is South Carolina?
This amendment to the U.S. constitution guaranteed the right to vote (for Black men).
What is the 15th amendment?
In 1898, White insurrectionists overthrew the local government and replaced it with their handpicked leaders in this American City.
What is Wilmington (NC)?
"Up From Slavery" is the title of this prominent African American; _________ __ ______________
What (Who) is Booker T. Washington?