Civil Rights Movement
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
This activist famously called for “Black Power” during the 1966 Meredith March.
Stokely Carmichael
Term first used by Black Feminists to describe the double discrimination they faced.
Intersectionality (also accept womanism)
This musical genre emerged from Black communities in the Bronx during the 1970s.
Hip Hop
This 2018 Marvel film became a cultural milestone for its celebration of African and African diasporic representation.
Black Panther
This organization, founded in 1957 and led by ministers like Martin Luther King Jr., coordinated nonviolent protests across the South.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
This organization was founded in Oakland in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in response to police brutality.
Black Panther Party for Self Defense
Black Feminist poet famous for her poem "Still, I Rise"
Maya Angelou
This 1970s dance and music television show became one of the first nationally syndicated programs centered on Black culture and performers.
Soul Train
This former NFL quarterback sparked national debate by kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice and police brutality.
Colin Kaepernick
This World War II era movement would serve as a prequel to the Civil Rights Movement.
Double V Campaign (also accept March on Washington Movement)
Black nationalist leader assassinated in 1965, but whose ideas would pave the way for Black Power.
Malcolm X
This Black feminist organization issued a 1977 statement emphasizing interlocking oppressions of race, gender, class, and sexuality.
Combahee River Collective
Name of the cultural movement that particularly utilized photography and fashion to center their message.
"Black is Beautiful"
Name at least three Black athletes we have learned about who achieved extraordinary things that demonstrated Black excellence.
Jack Johnson, Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson. Potentially many others :)
Name 3 specific legislative or legal achievements of the Civil Rights Movement.
Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, 24th Amendment, Fair Housing Act of 1968, Brown v. Board of Education
Name two pre-World War II (1945) Black leaders we have studied whose ideas are similar to those of the Black Power Movement.
Martin Delany, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey
First black woman to run for President
Shirley Chisholm
This television miniseries based on Alex Haley’s work traced generations of an African American family from enslavement onward.
Roots
Name the first Black President and Vice President
Barack Obama and Kamala Harris
Name at least three specific Civil Rights campaigns that were successful. Indicate what part of the Jim Crow system they were confronting.
Many answers!
Many answers!
Name of the Black legal scholar who coined the term "intersectionality".
Kimberle Crenshaw
Identify the two Afro-Caribbean cultural movements that influenced the Black Freedom Struggle and Black culture for generations to come.
Negritude and Negrismo
Driven initially by the shooting of unarmed Black people (mostly men) by police and others.