Reconstruction Laws
This amendment abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime
What is the 13th Amendment?
This writer/anthropologist is best known for her book Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
Most of these educational institutions were founded between 1865 and 1900 to train teachers, preachers, and farmers.
What are HBCUs?
The type of music originated in New Orleans and is characteristic of the Harlem Renaissance.
What is jazz?
This is the word for the extrajudicial (outside of the law) killing of a person, usually in public by a mob, for an alleged crime.
What is lynching?
These were a serious of laws passed in the South immediately after the Civil War that restricted the rights of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
This sociologist believed that a "Talented Tenth" would lead African Americans.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
This song by James Weldon Johnson was named the "Negro National Anthem" by the NAACP.
What is "Lift Every Voice and Sing"?
This poet is known for works such as "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "I, Too".
Who is Langston Hughes?
This federally funded organization that provided relief for displaced Southerners and recently freed African Americans after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This amendment prohibits race-based voting discrimination
What is the 15th Amendment?
This man is the founder of Tuskegee Institute.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This is a political and social movement that calls for a distinct national identity for black people.
What is Black Nationalism?
This mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North and Midwest directly led to the Harlem Renaissance.
What is the Great Migration?
This travel guide identified businesses around the United States that would have accepted African American customers.
What is the Green Book?
This amendment grants citizenship to all person born or naturalized in the United States, and guarantees equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th amendment?
This journalist and activist is best known for her anti-lynching work.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This is a social philosophy term coined by W.E.B. DuBois to describe the internal sense of “two-ness” experienced by African Americans in a white-dominated society.
What is Double Consciousness?
This venue is credited with introducing jazz to white, mainstream audiences.
What is the Cotton Club?
This word is used to describe a population that is separated from their ancestral homeland and often geographically scattered.
What is a diaspora?
This Supreme Court case allowed for "separate but equal" accommodations for people of different races.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This Jamaican-born activist started the United Negro Improvement Association.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This is the name of the idea that people of African descent have a common identity and should be united.
What is Pan-Africanism?
This artist created work inspired by Africa and cubism like "The Judgement Day".
Who is Aaron Douglas?
This nickname was given to the most renowned all-Black unit in WWI that proved their bravery by serving as reinforcements to the French military.
What is "Harlem Hellfighters"?