Ancient Africa-1740
In 1739, Colonial America saw this first major slave revolt when enslaved people in South Carolina attempted to escape to Spanish Florida.
Stono Rebellion
This African American man was the first person killed in the Boston Massacre and he remains an important symbolic figure in African American history.
Crispus Attucks
The cotton boom in the Deep South led to millions of enslaved people being sold from the Upper South to the Deep South in a migration known as the ________________.
Second Middle Passage
Booker T. Washington promoted this idea, one that encouraged African Americans to accept Jim Crow segregation and focus on the economic uplift of their own communities.
Accomodationism
This woman was known as the "Godmother of SNCC" and bristled against the top-down leadership of groups like the SCLC.
Ella Baker
Many enslaved Africans escaped to form their own communities. These escaped slaves were known as _____________.
Maroons
This group, granted relative autonomy under the task system of Carolina plantations, formed this unique ethnic group that still retains many African cultural practices.
Gullah Geechee
This African American spiritual practice involved singing, dancing, clapping, and call-and-response prayer. It's influence is still seen in African American music, literature, and worship.
Ring shout
The Supreme Court issued this doctrine in their ruling in the Plessy v. Ferguson case, effectively ushering in the era of Jim Crow.
"Separate but Equal"
John Lewis and ______________, both leaders in SNCC, had a falling out over disagreements about the efficacy of non-violence as the protest tool in the Civil Rights Movement. The latter would go on to coin the phrase "Black Power."
Stokely Carmichael (later known as Kwame Ture)
Many Sub-Saharan Africans today speak languages related back to the migration of these peoples across the continent beginning around 3500 B.C.E.
Bantu
Many thousands of enslaved Africans were enticed to join the British during the Revolutionary War after they were offered freedom due to ___________________.
Lord Dunmore's Proclamation
African Americans who escaped into Union lines were often given this label, a sort of middle status between enslavement and freedom.
Contraband
This event is considered the largest lynching episode in American history, and took place when Arkansas sharecroppers attempted to unionize. It was part of the larger Red Summer of 1919.
Elaine Massacre
This is sometimes called the great failure of the Civil Rights Movement because it lacked specific goals and organization. Lessons were learned that strengthened the later Birmingham and Selma Campaigns.
Albany Movement
Many powerful African kingdoms developed in this strategically located region just south of the Sahara Desert.
Sahel
This woman successfully sued for her freedom in Massachusetts in 1780, helping to pave the way for manumission in Northern states.
Elizabeth Freeman (formerly known as Mum Bett)
Congress passed this law (it's actually two laws) to enable federal troops to protect the civil rights of freedmen in the South.
Force Acts
Marcus Garvey was the founder of this organization, which promoted Black nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and the creation of the Black Star Line.
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
President John F. Kennedy showed that he was willing to use military force to enforce civil rights legislation when he deployed National Guard troops to ensure the safe enrollment of this student to the University of Mississippi.
James Meredith
This slave castle off the coast of Senegal is home to the infamous "Door of No Return."
Ile de Gorée
Prejudice against African Americans in the North can be seen in the racist _____________ posters and cartoons that depicted free Black people as uneducated drunkards who couldn't speak "proper" English. It is a precursor to minstrelsy.
Bobalition
This is the most famous of the U.S. Colored Troops regiments during the Civil War, and they fought at the storming of Fort Wagner. Frederick Douglass' two sons fought in this regiment.
54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment
This federal agency was responsible for creating Residential Security Maps which contributed to the denial of conventional mortgages to African Americans. This still impacts the current racial wealth gap.
Federal Housing Administration
The poetry, often set to music, of this artist helped to inspire the birth of hip-hop and paved the way for modern Black artists to use art as a form of protest. His most influential poem is titled "The Revolution Will Not be Televised."
Gil-Scott Heron