Reconstruction
This Amendment officially abolished slavery when ratified in 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This Supreme Court case approved of state laws that segregated Black and white folks in public spaces. It upheld "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This song is the Black National Anthem.
What is "Lift Every Voice and Sing?"
A domestic terrorist organization that worked to maintain white supremacy over Black Americans through lynchings, burning businesses, and inciting mobs.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This entrepreneur became the first woman millionaire in America for her hair care products.
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
This is what HBCU stands for.
What is "Historically Black College and University?"
This Amendment overturned Dred Scott v. Sanford and established equal protection for all, but this last part was overturned by later Supreme Court cases.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This federal organization tried to aid over 4 million formerly enslaved Black Americans and poor white Americans by providing clothing, medical care, jobs, legal aid, and schools after the Civil War.
What is The Freedmen's Bureau?
The time period between 1917 and 1921 (specifically in 1919) punctuated by race riots and massacres. Many lynchings also occurred during this time.
What is The Red Summer?
These replaced slave codes after slavery in order to legally maintain white supremacy.
What are Black codes?
This investigative journalist was inspired by the murder of 3 of her friends to begin recording examples of lynchings in a book called The Red Record.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
During the Harlem Renaissance, historian Carter G. Woodson created this event that educated people on and celebrated Black achievements throughout the ages.
What is Black History Month?
This Amendment secured Black men the right to vote (for a while).
What is the 15th Amendment?
What are Union Leagues?
The Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma destroyed in the Tulsa massacre in 1921, is better known as this because of its thriving businesses and neighborhoods.
What is Black Wall Street?
The time period post-Reconstruction that is labeled as the lowest point in America's history due to extreme racial violence, legal segregation, and lynchings.
What is the nadir?
This Harlem Renaissance anthropologist documented Black American culture, folklore, and linguistics through her novels and essays. Her best known novel is Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This was the largest internal migration that happened within the United States where six million Black Americans moved from the South to both the North and West between 1910-1970.
What is the Great Migration?
The first Black politician to serve in the U.S. Congress and US Senate in 1870.
a) Robert Smalls
b) Booker T. Washington
c) Hiram Revels
Who is C. Hiram Revels?
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.
What is sharecropping?
Booker T. Washington's uplift strategy was primarily focused on...
What is vocational/industrial training?
What is economic independence?
What is segregation (for safety reasons)?
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses implemented against Black voters were all examples of this.
What is disenfranchisement?
This Harlem Renaissance poet wrote "Heritage"--a poem about her identity in America.
Who is Gwendolyn Bennett?
Marcus Garvey's Back-to-Africa Movement founded this ship company to repatriate Black Americans to Africa.
What is the Black Star Line?
Union General William Sherman issued Special Order No. 15 which redistributed about 400,000 acres in South Carolina and Florida to newly freed people assigned in small parcels. This gave rise to which phrase?
What is "Forty acres and a mule" ?
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 in order to keep Black Americans from economic advancement. These laws were called
What are vagrancy laws?
DuBois's uplift strategy included
What is civil rights?
What is voting/participating in politics?
What is liberal arts education?
This is a social, legal, and economic barrier that has historically separated people based on race, primarily placing white people in positions of privilege.
This phrase was popularized by W.E.B. Du Bois.
Hint: It deals with wearing "the mask."
What is the color line?
She was a singer and actress who began her career singing jazz and the blues during the Harlem Renaissance. She was the first Black American woman to star in her own tv show and she later appeared in the famous all-Black film Cabin in the Sky.
Who is Ethel Waters?
This is the first Black Christian denomination in the United States.
What is the A.M.E. church? (African Methodist Episcopal)