W.E.B. DuBois
Carter G. Woodson
Crisis!
Atlanta, Fisk, and Howard
Scholars & More
100
This is the name of Du Bois's social science research when he claimed, "The Negro problem was in my mind a matter of systematic investigation and intelligent understanding. The world was thinking wrong about race..." (see page 57)
What is The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study?
100
Carter G. Woodson went to this school in Kentucky before the state made it illegal in 1906 for a private college to have a biracial student body. (see page 58)
What is Berea College?
100
The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races was first edited by this influential social scientist/intellectual?
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
100
After this war, there were pressures to upgrade HBCUs and make faculties conform more closely to what were becoming regional and national standards. (see page 59)
What is World War I?
100
Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice attended this law school in Washington DC. (see page 61)
What is Howard Law School?
200
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study was published by the University of Pennsylvania in this year. (see page 57)
What is 1899?
200
Woodson served as the dean of this university in Washington D.C. for only a year and left after a dispute with the White president, J. Stanley Durkee. (see page 58)
What is Howard University?
200
The first edition of The Crisis was published in this year.
When is 1910?
200
Prior to 1930, this organization refused to consider accreditation of Black colleges. (see page 59)
What is the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools (or SACSS)?
200
This man was the most distinguished Black sociology scholar and served as a research professor in the Department of Social Science at Fisk University (1931-1934) and Howard from 1934- 1962. (see page 62)
Who is E. Franklin Frazier?
300
DuBois was a professor of history and sociology from 1896 to 1910 at this university in Georgia. (see page 57)
What is Atlanta University?
300
Woodson founded this organization in Chicago in 1915? (See page 59)
What is The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History?
300
The Crisis: A Record of the Darker races served as medium to display literature by this writer whose most famous work, Their Eyes Were Watching God was published in 1937.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
300
This 1938 Supreme Court case landmark decision helped improve working conditions at Black schools and many were encouraged to add graduate programs. (see page 59)
What is Missouri ex rel. Gaines V. Canada (305 U.S. 337)?
300
During this time block of years about 85 percent of 2,535 M.A. theses and 359 Ph.D. dissertations on Black subjects accepted by American universities were done by Black scholars. (see page 63)
When is 1932-1947?
400
DuBois became director of publicity of the NAACP in this year (see page 58)
What is 1910?
400
Woodson made this journal into a respected American historical journals but it took a steady decline within a few years of his death. (see page 59)
What is The Journal of Negro History?
400
The Crisis served as an outlet for Du Bois to make this term referencing young Blacks achieving intellectual distinction popular. (see page 58)
What is The Talented Tenth?
400
80 percent of all Black PhD's in 1936 were employed by these three institutions.
What are Atlanta, Fisk, and Howard?
400
His career as a scientist was stifled because of racism and unfair disadvantages despite his fifty papers on fertilization and cellular physiology and other groundbreaking research. (see pages 63- 64)
Who is Professor Ernest Everett Just?
500
DuBois was one of this relatively small number of Black scholars to receive a PhD between 1876 and 1914. (see page 56)
What is fourteen?
500
Woodson received a PhD from this university. (see page 58).
What is Harvard University?
500
The amount of time Crisis Magazine was edited by W.E.B. DuBois. (see page 58)
What is twenty two years?
500
This state is the home to Fisk University and Meharry Medical College in Nashville. (see page 60)
What is Tennessee?
500
This famous scholar famously asked, "What, after all, am I? Am I an American or am I a Negro? Can I be both?..." in 1897. (see page 67)
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
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