Reconstruction
Reconstruction and beyond
20th Century BLACK HISTORY
BLACK Women's HISTORY
Random BLACK HISTORY
100

This Amendment officially abolished slavery when ratified in 1865. 

13th Amendment

100

After Sherman's orders were overturned, freed people were evicted from their land and had to resort to this type of farming in order to survive.  

Sharecropping or crop-lien

100

This author was inspired by the murder of 3 of her friends to begin recording examples of lynchings in a book called The Red Record.

Ida B. Wells

100

This black hair entrepreneur invented the hot comb.

Who is Madame CJ Walker?

100

The first black woman to own a TV studio.

Who is Oprah Winfrey?

200

This Amendment overturned Dred Scott v. Sanford and established equal protection for all, but this last part was overturned by later Supreme Court cases. 

14th Amendment

200

One unfortunate result of the post-Reconstruction times in the South was the criminalization of almost everything, turning minor offenses or debt into felonies with fines.  This system would become known as.... 

Convict Leasing

200

The time period between 1917 and 1921 punctuated by race riots and massacres is also known as

The Red Summer

200

These women were leading figures in the suffrage movement (pick one): 


Ida B. Wells and Nannie Helen Burroughs

200

This famous product, founded by African American Wallace "Wally" Amos, Jr., made him a fortune selling cookies.

What is Famous Amos Cookies?

300

The first Black politician to serve in the U.S. Congress and US Senate in 1870.

a) Robert Smalls 

b) Thurgood Marshall 

c) Hiram Revels

C. Hiram Revels

300

One major positive effect of the 15th Amendment in the South was... 

Over 2,000 Black men were elected to some kind of local, county, state, or federal office through the power of the vote. 

300

The Greenwood district in Tulsa, destroyed in the massacre in 1921, is better known as

Black Wall Street

300

This entreprenuer and innovator preached Black economic advancement and promoted giving away money to local Black communities. 

Madam CJ Walker

300

This is the celebrated conductor of the Underground Railroad, a network of safe houses and secret routes that helped enslaved people escape to freedom.

Who is Harriet Tubman?

400

This Amendment secured Black men the right to vote (for a while).   

15th Amendment

400

This Supreme Court case approved of state laws that segregated Black and white folks in public spaces.

Plessy v. Ferguson

400

Booker T. Washington's uplift strategy was primarily focused on... 

African Americans remaining in the South and learning a trade to gain economic independence. 

400

This Black writer documented African American culture and lunguistic expression, especially throughthe use of Black vernacular. 

Zora Neale Hurston

400

This person is current mayor of New York.

Who is Eric Adams?

500

Union General William Sherman issed Special Order No. 15 which redistributed about 400,000 acres in South Carolina and Floridato newly freed people assigned in small parcels.  This gave rise to which phrase?  

40 acres and a mule.

500

This is what HBCU stands for.

What is "Historically Black College and University?"

500

DuBois's uplift strategy included 

higher education, civil rights, and political participation 

500

This actor and musician was the first African American to star in her own TV show in 1939. 

Ethel Waters

500

After the murder of George Floyd, this activist group led a worldwide protest of police brutality toward Black people.


Who is Black Lives Matter?

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