Vocabulary One
Prejudice towards an entire group often resulting in unfair treatment of those people judged to be different or inferior from those in the majority or in power.
What is discrimination?
A type of jazz particularly popular during the 1930s; it featured complicated, carefully planned orchestrations.
What is Swing?
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
The were the African American men who were trained in air combat.
What is Tuskegee Airman?
Brown v. Board of Education, Gideon v. Wainwright, Miranda v. Arizona; these are all key cases of what court?
What is Warren Court?
Civil rights legislation passed under the Eisenhower administration that gave federal government certain powers to ensure African American voting rights.
What is the Civil Right Act of 1957?
Keeping groups separate based on their differences.
What is Segregation?
This court case is famously known for the phrase "separate but equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
He was the first African American to play in the MLB
Who is Jackie Robinson?
Louis Armstrong, Zora Neale Hurston, Bessie Smith, Countee Cullen; they are all famous (blank) of the Harlem Renaissance.
What are musicians?
A period of 12 years following the Civil War when the Confederate States were rebuilt and once again included with the rest of the United States.
What is Reconstruction?
Murders, usually by hanging, often by a mob, often directed at a person accused of a crime or offense.
What is Lynching?
This is the other name(s) the Harlem Renaissance is known for
What is The Roaring Twenties, The New Negro Renaissance, The Negro Movement?
He killed JFK
Who is James Earl Ray?
What are Writers?
A form of nonviolent protest in which people occupy a place, and refused to leave.
What is a sit-in?
a slowdown and decline in the national and worldwide economy that began arounf1929, lasted for more than a decade and brought about widespread unemployment and poverty.
What is the Great Depression?
This activist refused to give up their seat
Who is Rosa Parks?
These nine students experiences racial problems at the school they were in because they were trying to prompt integration.
What is the Little Rock Nine?
An addition to the Constitution that in 1865 outlawed slavery anywhere in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
Taking over control or influence of smaller and weaker countries by a stronger, larger country.
What is Imperialism?
The NAACP stands for...
What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
This was legalized in public places.
What is Racism, Segregation, Racial slurs?
These nine rules protect you from any nonconsensual sexual acts.
What is Title IX?