Terms
Patronage system
Merchants used their money to buy luxuries and hire talent. This financial support established the patronage system that produced specific works or styles.
This person was closely involved with the 1995 creation of Shockwave as a software engineer, the technology that helped to develop web animation.
Lisa Gelobter
What is AAVE? (Must say the full title)
African-American Vernacular English
This is the age you tell them when you go to a buffet with your parents.
12 or younger
Wrote the poem "Still I Rise" and the book, I know why the Caged Bird Sings
Who is Maya Angelou?
Polytheism
The belief in or worship of more than one god.
This African American person was the induction telegraph system, which allowed traveling trains to communicate with one another while also allowing workers to locate them.
Granville T. Woods
Laws that were created after the Reconstruction Era which legalized segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This is the sign that you know its "Clean the House Day".
What is music blasting on the speakers?
This famous African-American won 4 medals in the Berlin Olympics.
Who is Jesse Owens?
Colonialism is…….
The policy or practice of acquiring political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
This first African American person earned a doctorate at MIT, and is responsible for monumental telecommunications research that led to the invention of products such as the touch-tone phone, portable fax, fiber optic cables, and caller ID.
Shirley Jackson
He founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), attended Harvard and also wrote the book, "The Souls of Black Folk"
Who is Dr. W.E.B. DuBois?
This is what happens when you see everyone start running.
You start running
In 1993 this pediatrician became the first woman and the first African American to be named the U.S. Surgeon General.
Who is Dr. Joycelyn Elders?
Christian Humanism
Christian humanists sought to combine classical studies with Christian cultures seeking church reforms and influencing the spiritual lives of the faithful.
Before automatic doors, people had to manually shut both the shaft and elevator doors before riding. Forgetting to do so led to multiple accidents as people fell elevator shafts. As the story goes, when the daughter of the inventor almost fatally fell down the shaft, they took it upon themselves to develop a solution. In 1887, a patent for a mechanism that automatically opens and closes elevator shaft doors was designed and largely reflected in elevators used today.
Alexander Miles
Who sings, "To Be Young, Gifted & Black"?
Nina Simone
This what your momma says she is not.
What is one of your little friends from school?
Founding members of the black panthers
Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Howard, and Bobby Seale
Racism
Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.
In 1966, this individual devised an early security unit for their own home. They spent many nights at home alone in Queens, New York, and felt unsafe with high rates of crime in her neighborhood. On top of that, the police were unreliable and unresponsive. So, they invented a system that used a camera that could slide into and look through four peepholes in her front door. The camera’s view would then appear on a monitor in her home so she could survey any potentially unwanted guests.
Mary Van Brittan Brown
What did Runaway slaves use to distract hound dogs when escaping?
Hushpuppies
This is what your momma says right before you walk into the store (need at least 2)
Don't ask for anything, don't touch anything and don't look at anything.
This person was not only the first African American woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but the first woman, period.
Who is Aretha Franklin?