Early Black History
Black Politics
For the Culture
Activism
Figures/Terminology
100

The first European country to enslave Africans.

What is Portugal?

100

This amendment granted Black men the right to vote.

What is the 15th Amendment?

100

Musicians, writers, actors, etc. are modern day ___, an old African tradition of passing knowledge.

What are griots?

100

This movement aims to eliminate prisons.

What is prison abolition?

100

AAVE.

What is African American Vernacular English or ebonics/dialect/slang?

200

The belief that one's cultural/ethnic background is normative, and leads to judging other cultures as inferior.

What is ethnocentricism?

200

2 parts: Landmark case which established the doctrine "separate but equal" AND the case that overthrew this ruling in 1954.

Write your answer.

200

Name at least 2 forms of black aesthetics (black art and expressive culture).

Write your answers.

200

Ida B. Wells, Josephine Ruffin, Mary Church Terrell, and Anna Julia Cooper were members of this movement.

What is the Black Women's Club Movement?

200

The father of the environmental justice movement.

Who is Dr. Robert Bullard?

300

This country had the largest population of enslaved, and now diasporic, Black peoples.

What is Brazil?
300

Before Rosa Parks, this woman went to court to fight segregation and discrimination on buses.

Who is Claudette Colvin?

300
Name at least 3 controlling images or stereotypes of Black women in the media.

What are the The Black Matriarch, The Mammy, The Jezebel, The Black Lady, and The Welfare Queen? (3/5 is correct)

300

This law prohibits discrimination based on hair style and hair texture.

What is the CROWN Act?

300

This person was experimented on over 30 times by J. Marion Sims to develop gynecology.

Who is Anarcha?

400

2 Parts: This rebellion is known as one of the most violent uprisings in NC, killing 25 colonists and up to 50 Black people; and, list 3 other rebellions.

What is the Stono Rebellion? Write your other answers down.

400

The so called War on Drugs led to the development of this type of racist criminalization.

What is Mass Incarceration? (or the New Jim Crow)

400

2 Part answer: This is where hip hop began AND these 4 concepts are foundational to its culture?

What is the Bronx; and what is DJing, MCing (rapping), break dancing, and graffiti?

400

Name 3 figures in the New Negro Movement.

Everyone answers (written).

400

The establishment of African and Black Studies in the US can be attributed to __.

What is the San Francisco State and Cornell University student strikes?

500

This country fought against French colonial rule to become the first self-liberated nation of Africans and their descendants.

What is Haiti?

500

In the Civil Rights Act of 1964, this prohibits employment discrimination and racism.

What is Title VII?

500

The Black Lives Matter movement was a __ that began here in order to assert the value of black lives, especially in the wake of police and/or vigilante violence.

What is a Facebook hashtag?

500

This person began the first anti-rape campaign after the Memphis Riots of 1866.

Who is Frances Thompson?

500

3 part answer: 

This federal organization investigated this group of Black leaders, specifically placing this person on the FBI most wanted list in the 1970s.

What is COINTELPRO, the Black Panthers, and Angela Davis?

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