1920s/Depression
The leader of the Back to Africa Movement is
Marcus Garvey
The Nation of Islam combined the 2 ideologies of
Islam and Black Nationalism
All black combat air unit who accumulated 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses.
The Tuskegee Airmen/Red Tails
Voting Rights Act of
Malcolm X’s “slave name”
Title of D. W. Griffith's 1915 film
Female artist we heard in class sing Blood on the Leaves
Creator and organizer of the March on Washington Movement
A. Phillip Randolph
Name the first legal challenge to elementary school segregation in the South
Briggs v. Elliot
The organization federally created to research causes of inner city violence
Kerner Commission
"Father of Black Baseball"
Three pieces of media that formed popular culture in the 30s, 40s, and 50s.
Radio, Movies, Comic Books
Executive Order issued by FDR that banned discrimination in defense industries and the federal government
Executive Order 8802
This city's students staged the first sit-in
Greensboro, North Carolina
Creators of Black Panther Party
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
Alternative group to Marcus Garvey's in NYC formed in 1919?
The African Blood Brotherhood
First executive director and president of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses
Mabel K. Staupers
When and where was Medgar Evers assassinated?
1963, Mississippi
These three cities experienced the most significant riots in the mid/late 1960s
Watts, Newark, Detroit
This movement emerged in the same year Timothy Drew died
Writer of Native Son
Recipient of the Navy Cross after Pearl Harbor
(Hint: Mess attendant saving a captain's life and shooting down enemy aircraft all while wounded)
Brown II occurred in
These two black track Olympians raised their fists during the National Anthem during the 1940 Olympics
Tommy Smith and John Carlos