This groundbreaking book by W.E.B. Du Bois (1903) portrays Black humanity and the effects of racism on African Americans in the early 20th century.
What is Souls of Black Folk?
This movement encouraged African Americans to define their own identity, creating Black aesthetic and innovations in response to racism and discrimination.
What is the New Negro Movement?
Sociologist and activist, his research and writings produced some of the earliest sociological surveys of African Americans.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
One of the largest internal movements within the U.S. 6 million African Americans relocated from the South to the North, Midwest, and West from the 1910s to the 1970.
What is the Great Migration?
In the 17th century, Africans and their descendants born in the West Indies first arrived in what became the U.S. are known by this name.
What are Afro- Caribbeans?
The first woman millionaire in the U.S., developed products that highlighted the beauty of Black people and engaged in philanthropy.
Who is Madame C.J. Walker?
This movement that flurished in the 1920s promoted of African heritage as a response to the legacies of colonialism and Atlantic slavery. It created a cultural revolution in the U.S. and around the world.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
An anthropologist and writer who's writtings documented forms of African American culture and expression. Is known for her works, Their eyes Were Watching God and Dust Tracks on a Road.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
What is New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Los Angeles?
List 2 causes for Caribbean migration to the U.S.
What is U.S. intervention in the Panama Canal, occupation of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, purchasing of the Virgin Islands.
This person advocated for industrial education and training as a way to better uplift Black Americans as a means of economic advancement and independence.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This photographer of the Harlem Renaissance recasted global perceptions of African Americans by illustrating the qualities of the "New Negro".
Who is James Van Der Zee?
Known as a journalist, educator, civil rights activist, and founder of the NAACP fought againt lynching.
Who is Ida B. Wells-Barnett?
What is city/ urban dwellers?
He led the largest pan- African movement in African American history as a founder of UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association).
Who is Marcus Garvey?
W.E.B. Du Bois used photography to show what the "New Negro" looked at this event.
What is the Paris Exhibition in 1900?
List 3 influential people of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who are Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Aaron Douglas, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Louis Armstrong, W. E. B. Du Bois, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, Marcus Garvey, James VanDerZee, Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles S. Johnson, or Jacob Lawrence?
List 3 reasons why the Great Migration occured.
What is economic opportunity, newspapers, environmental factors, and racial violence?
What is the Back- to- Africa movement?
Founded in 1904, this is the oldest, continuosly operating African American-owned bank in the U.S. and to become a member of the FDIC and the Federal Reserve System.
What is the Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company?
This person founded Black History month and promoted Black history in schools.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
Who was Arturo Schomburg?
This painter decided to portray reasons, the movement, and impacts of the Great Migration.
Who is Jacob Lawrence?
UNIA's flag contains that following colors and was used as a symbol for the following cause.
What is red, black, and green flag and symbol of Black unity/ solidarity and freedom worldwide.