Origins of the African Diaspora
This language was shared by a variety of early Western and Central African ethnic groups, who eventually migrated across the African continent as a result of population growth
What is Bantu?
The brutal, forced maritime journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas, occurring from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
What is the Middle Passage?
This woman abolitionist, activist, and Union Army spy guided dozens of enslaved people to freedom along the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
An outbreak of racial violence in 1919 that affected at least 26 cities across the United States
What is the Red Summer?
Supreme Court case that overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine that legalized racial segregation
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
Leader of the UNIA
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This empire was once ruled by Mansa Musa, known for his extravagant wealth and ability to connect east Africa to other parts of the world through cultural and economic exchange
What is Mali?
This country had the highest number of enslaved people brought from Africa
What is Brazil?
In 1839, enslaved Africans from Cuba led an uprising aboard this ship before arriving in the United States where they were prosecuted in court for their actions
What is Amistad?
A voting fee, largely implemented in Southern states during the Nadir to disenfranchise African Americans and poorer whites by creating a financial barrier to voting
What is a poll tax?
The 1963 event that featured Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and encompassed more than 200,000 demonstrators to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans
What was the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
The first Black American to hold the position of Secretary of State in the United States
Who is Colin Powell?
A term used to describe a prestigious historian, storyteller, and musician who maintained and shared a community's history, traditions, and cultural practices.
What is a griot?
In this Supreme Court case, the court held that the U.S. Constitution did not extend citizenship to people of black African descent
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This term refers to Afro-descendants who escaped slavery to establish free communities
What are maroons?
Supreme Court case that legalized racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
During the spring of 1961, student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) launched these efforts to challenge segregation on interstate buses
What were the Freedom Rides?
This television show was a popular African American dance program modeled on American Bandstand
What is Soul Train?
Based in present-day Nigeria, this early ironworking society is best known for its pottery, naturalistic terracotta sculptures, and stone instruments.
Who are the Nok?
She was the first American slave, the first person of African descent, and only the third colonial American woman to have her writings published.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
Beginning in the seventeenth century, enslaved refugees fled Georgia and the Carolinas to this Spanish Florida site seeking asylum
What is Fort Mose?
A two-day long terrorist massacre perpetrated by white supremacists in Oklahoma in 1921
What is the Tulsa Race Massacre?
This 1939 protest song was made famous by Billie Holiday, protesting American racism and the lynching of African Americans
What is "Strange Fruit"?
African American playwright who is best known for his series of 10 plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh Cycle, which chronicle the experiences and heritage of the African American community in the 20th century
Who is August Wilson?
This northeastern African society was the source of Egypt's gold and luxury trade items.
What is Nubia?
This seventeenth-century colonial law defined a child's legal status based on the status of their mother
What is partus sequitur ventrem?
Inspired by the Haitian Revolution, this uprising was the largest slave revolt on U.S. soil
What was the Louisiana Slave Revolt?
An 1898 violent white supremacist overthrow of an elected biracial government in North Carolina on November 10, 1898
What was the Wilmington Insurrection?
Founders of the Black Panther Party
Who are Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale?
Founders of the Black Lives Matter movement
Who are Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi?