Important People
This king of Aksum adopted Christianity, making Aksum the first African society to do so. He also coined himself on money.
Who is King Ezana?
This forced ocean crossing was the second part of the three-part journey of enslaved Africans.
What is the Middle Passage?
This continent is described in the review guide as the birthplace of humanity and the ancestral home of African Americans.
What is Africa?
This system transformed slavery into a permanent, hereditary condition by defining enslaved Africans and their descendants as property rather than people.
What is chattel slavery?
This case ruled that African Americans, enslaved and free, were not and could never become U.S. citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This ruler of Mali made a famous Hajj in 1324 and helped expand Mali’s wealth, Islamic learning, and reputation.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This term refers to the ancient oral historians and storytellers of West African societies.
What are griots?
This empire developed its own currency and script, Ge’ez, and was connected to Red Sea trade networks.
What is Aksum?
This compromise counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for taxation and congressional representation, increasing the political power of slaveholding states without granting rights to enslaved people.
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
This 1896 case upheld segregation under the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This Reconstruction-era leader became the first Black man to serve in the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Senate.
Who is Hiram Revels?
These laws restricted African Americans’ movement, labor, property ownership, and legal rights after slavery.
What are Black Codes?
This West African society is known for terracotta sculptures and is described as one of the earliest iron-working societies of West Africa.
What is the Nok Society?
This poet became the first African American to publish a book of poetry.
This Supreme Court case granted freedom to the Mende captives who revolted aboard La Amistad.
What is the United States v. The Amistad?
This NAACP lawyer argued before the Supreme Court that "separate but equal" violated the 14th Amendment.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This term means the loss or denial of voting rights.
What is disenfranchisement?
This city became an important center of book trade, universities, scholarship, and Islamic learning in Mali.
What is Timbuktu?
Majority of slaves were taken from this part of Africa.
What is West Africa?
What is West-Central Africa?
This 1954 case overturned “separate but equal” in public education.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This journalist and activist used investigative reporting to expose lynching as a tool of white supremacy and challenged the false accusations often used to justify racial violence.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This movement emphasized Black cultural pride and political liberation in the French-speaking African diaspora.
This movement celebrated African contributions in Spanish-speaking Caribbean music, folklore, literature, and art.
What is Negritude? and What is Negrismo?
This ancient society was well known for its great stone structures that were utilized for defensive purposes.
What is Great Zimbabwe?
These writings were used politically to demonstrate Black humanity and argue for the inclusion of people of African descent in American society.
What are slave narratives?
The Supreme Court stated that segregation and the "separate but equal" clause violated this section of the 14th Amendment.
What is the equal protection clause?