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This is the era when Africans and African Americans were legally used for free labor.
What is "The slavery era"?
This movement started as a hashtag and chant after Trayvon Martin was killed by security guard.
What is Black Lives Matter?
This text is about a young girl witnessing her friend being shot by a police officer and coping with that afterwards.
What is "The Hate U Give"?
This was the song about lynching victims in the Southern states from Billie Holiday.
What is “Strange Fruit”?
This was the rules which segregated Black and White Americans in the Southern states named after a racist character.
What is “Jim Crow Laws”?
This era was the period where Black Americans like Martin Luther King jr. fought for specific rights.
What is "The civil rights era"?
This movement started in the 1950’ies when Black Americans fought for specific rights.
What was the Civil Rights Movement?
This text was a real letter from a former slave written to refuse to come back to the plantation to work again.
What is “To my old master”?
This was the song 2Pac wrote about being frustrated about the failure to eradicate injustices for Black Americans.
What is “Changes”?
These laws were official laws which changed or clarified the rights of Black American.
What is (13th, 14th, 15th ) Amendments?
This era is named after the major event which almost tore the United States into two parts.
What is "The Civil War era"?
This movement was started by racists trying to scare and suppress the Black American population.
What was the KKK?
This text was about living in a ghetto and being regarded as part of a gang by the police.
What is “The baddest dog in Harlem”?
This was the film we saw about Martin Luther King jr.’s attempts to demonstrate in a southern city.
What is “Selma”?
These shows made frequent use of Black face – White people with colored faces- while they were dancing and singing usually sillily.
What is “Minstrel shows”?
The 80’s were for many Black Americans characterized by these two G’s.
What is ghettos and gangs?
This movement work to free African Americans from slavery.
What was the Abolitionists (abolitionism)?
This text is about a young Black girl who won a competition only to be refused the prize because of her color.
What is “One Friday morning”?
This was a film we saw clips from to show the harsh treatment of the slaves.
What is “12 years a slave”?
These tests were used in the Southern states to keep Black Americans from voting as they were almost impossible to answer correctly in the short amount of time which were given.
What is literacy tests?
This era was after the war when the Americans tried to merge the South and North back together.
What is "The Reconstruction era"?
This specific organisation worked for civil rights in the 1950’ies and 60’ies and chose a peaceful civil disobedience way to fight.
What was NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People)?
This text is a speech by Martin Luther King jr. used in the film we saw.
What is “Our god is marching on”?
This was a quite racist cartoon from the 1040’ies where a White woman shakes up a small town full of Black people.
What is “Scrub me mama with a boogie beat”?
This word means the variation of English used by Black American.
This word means the variation of English used by Black American.