Civil Rights
True or false The 13th amendment abolishes slavery in all parts of the country.
False. Slavery can be used as a form of punishment/person must be found guilty of a crime.
Carter G Woodson not only became the only son of slave parents to get a doctoral degree but was the father of this celebration.
What was Black History Week/Month?
The 1968 Kerner report documented What
Poverty and institutional racism driving inner city violence.
The Civil War primarily fought over this right.
What was the right to own slaves?
This popular campaign became synonymous amongst African Americans in WWII.
What is Double Victory?
This decade had an average lifespan 7 years less, 50% high school graduates, 33% college graduates, and African Americans earning less than half compared to whites
What were the 1960s?
This show was often performed by white actors in Blackface and also the name for segregation policies in southern states.
What was Jim Crow?
These are the key characteristics of the Underclass. (List 3)
What is 1.Single mother homes, 2. welfare dependent, 3. marginally educated, 4. chronically unemployed, 5. in and out of jail?
Abraham Lincoln utilized war powers clause to pass this groundbreaking legislation.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
The motto "To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination" belongs to this organization.
What is the NAACP?
This organization arose from the slow pace of the Civil Right Movement.
Who were the Black Panthers?
This genre of music originated during the 1970s in the Bronx that dealt with police and prisons.
What is Hip Hop?
These are just some examples of voter suppression. (List 2)
What are 1. Voter IDs, 2. No same day registration, 3. Limit Voter registration drives, 4. Reduce absentee voting.
This time period in US history one could argue was the most Democratic in our history.
What was Reconstruction?
This Supreme Court case instituted the separate but equal doctrine.
What was Plessy V Fergusson?
This movement believed that Black Americans should focus on creating economic, social and political power of their own, rather than seek integration into white-dominated society.
What was the Black Power Movement?
Describe how Old Hollywood would portray African Americans.
Very poorly, stereotypical, racist, not hire them.
This policy impacted African Americans significantly more than any other group.
What is President Reagan's War on Drugs?
Which conflict did African Americans not participate in?
African Americans fought in every conflict in US history to date.
This supreme court case set the precedent for Brown V board of Education.
What was Mendez V Westminster?
This controversy was used by President Reagan to cut social welfare programs, and created a stereotype about African Americans
What was the arrest of Linda Taylor (or Welfare Queen)?
These awards have been receiving tons of backlash for their lack of minority representations.
What are the Oscars?
This government agency is responsible for introducing Crack cocaine to African Americans and was involved in the Iran-Contra affairs.
What is the CIA?
This post war movement romanticizes the Confederacy founded by the widows of Confederate troops.
What is the Lost Cause Narrative?
This tragic event took the lives of many African Americans and millions of dollars in property damages in Tulsa.
What was the Black Wall Street Massacre?