Termonology
The name for a system of laws requiring segregation in the south
Jim Crow
The wealthiest man in America and supporter of Booker T Washington
Andrew Carnegie
Was born a slave
Washington
What kind of education focuses on learning related specifically to performing a job?
Industrial
Term for separation of the races in daily life.
Segregation
Urbanization
To murder someone in public or publicly display a body of a murdered individual; an illegal execution
Lynching
What is the name of the Irish minstrel entertainer who performed in black face and popularized the term "Jim Crow"
T.D. "Daddy" Rice
What was the name of the NAACP's newspaper that DuBois was editor of
The Crisis
Who was the person chosen to challenge Jim Crow Laws by sitting in the White train car in Louisiana
Homer A Plessy
The mass migration of more than 15,000 black southerners to Kansas.
Exodus of 1879
What was the purpose of grandfather clauses?
Allowed all Whites (even poor whites) to vote while denying Blacks the right to vote.
The name of the organization created for the specific purpose of helping improve African American’s living in cities
National Urban League
The inventor who created a machine that lubricated train engines
Elijah McCoy
Washington's influence as a political leader
What does the term disenfranchisement mean?
To stop the legal right to act
What Supreme Court Case established the "separate but equal" principle?
Plessy v. Ferguson
The scientist who developed some 300 products from peanuts as well as numerous techniques for growing plants more effectively
George Washington Carver
The reform movement in the late 1800s and early 1900s that attempted to improve America by exposing the evils in society.
Progressive Movement
The successful business person who made a fortune creating and selling beauty products
Madame C.J. Walker
What was the name of Washington's famous speech?
What did he mean by "cast down your buckets where you are?"
Atlanta Compromise Speech
The solution to your problems is where you are. (the answers to success are right in front of you)
Give 1 reason we know Booker T Washington was a very influential leader.
1. closeness with the President and wealthy White leaders like Andrew Carnegie
2. First Black man formally invited to address a White southern audience
3. Tuskegee Machine
The Black journalist who fought to expose the scale of White violence and end lynchings
Ida Wells-Barnett
What were the 3 changes seen in the South after Reconstruction
1. a complete political reversal. Control went from Republican to Democratic Party
2. More sharecropping
3. Jim Crow Laws passed
Term for an accredited school founded before 1964 whose principal mission was the education of Black Americans
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
The black explorer who was one of the first men to reach the North Pole
Matthew Henson
Where did DuBois first experience Jim Crow and overt racism?
Where did he become the first African American to receive a PhD?
Fisk University (Nashville)
Harvard
What were the 3 methods of the NAACP?
1. Change public opinion (newspaper, signs, banners, & advertisments)
2. Challenging racists laws in court
3. Pressuring Congress to pass new civil rights laws and protections
Name for the African American troops in the US Army who were very effective in the Spanish-American War in Cuba
Buffalo Soldiers
Name the 5 methods of voting disenfranchisement
1. Property Test
2. Poll Tax
3. Literacy Test
4. White Primaries
5. Gerrymandering