Migration and the Great Depression
This term describes factors that drive people away from their homes, such as economic hardship.
What is a push factor?
This civil rights leader led the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision declared segregation in schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This author coined the term “womanist” and wrote In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens.
Who is Alice Walker?
This bus boycott lasted 381 days and ended with a Supreme Court decision.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
During the Great Migration, African Americans moved to this type of location for better opportunities
What are urban areas?
At just six years old, she integrated an all-white school in New Orleans in 1960.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
These youth-led protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, challenged segregation at lunch counters.
What are the Woolworth sit-ins?
This groundbreaking 1980s TV show featured the Huxtable family.
What is The Cosby Show
This campaign highlighted the contributions of African Americans during World War II while fighting for equality at home.
What is the Double V Campaign?
This president won the 1932 election and introduced the New Deal.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This leader chaired SNCC, popularized “Black Power,” and joined the Black Panther Party.
Who is Stokely Carmichael?
This infamous Birmingham Commissioner of Public Safety became known for using fire hoses and police dogs on protesters.
Who is Bull Connor?
This writer argued that “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”
Who is Audre Lorde?
This organization emphasized nonviolence and youth-led leadership during the Civil Rights Movement.
What is SNCC?
This artistic movement during the Great Depression included works like Aspects of Negro Life.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
He co-founded the Black Panther Party alongside Huey P. Newton.
Who is Bobby Seale?
This act passed in 1964 prohibited discrimination in public places and schools.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
The Black Panther Party’s guiding principles were summarized in this manifesto.
What is the 10-Point Platform?
These activists faced violent resistance to desegregate interstate travel
Who are the Freedom Riders?
This practice excluded African Americans from accessing loans and housing in many neighborhoods during the New Deal era.
What is redlining?
Known for his nonviolent leadership, he was a pivotal figure in the Selma marches and later became a congressman.
Who is John Lewis?
This 1965 legislation aimed to eliminate discriminatory practices in voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
This term describes the intersection of race, gender, and class in Black feminist thought.
What is intersectionality?
This strategy used by the Civil Rights Movement gained national attention in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963.
What is nonviolent protest?