Music
A singer who self-identifies as a Texas bama with a mixed heritage from Alabama and Louisiana
Who is Beyoncé?
FD's likely father
His master
Civil rights leader and baptist minister, known for his powerful speeches and non-violent approach to the struggle for liberty, equality and justice for all, murdered in 1968.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
The year that the events took place upon which the movie is based and in which also the Civil Rights Act was passed thanks to the insistence of president Lyndon B Johnson
What is 1964?
Name of the segregation laws that after the civil war were issued in the south and ruled 'constitutional' by the Supreme Court in its Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
Which emotion prompted the singing of the slaves according to Frederick Douglass?
Unhappiness and sorrow
What were the two advantages on the master's behalf of begetting children with his slaves?
What are business and pleasure?
Black woman who in 1955 refused to give up her seat in a public bus for a white man.
Who was Rosa Parks?
The racist political party dominant in the South up until the late 1960s
What is the Democratic Party?
The American president who in 1863, during the civil war, freed all slaves with his "Emancipation Proclamation".
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
What in the song "Formation" is the narrator's reward to her man when he has done a decent job in bed?
She takes him to the Red Lobster (seafood restaurant)
The attractive relative of FD whom he, as a young child, hidden from sight, witnessed being brutally whipped and tormented by his master
Who was Aunt Hester?
Muslim civil rights leader known for his willingness to fight white supremacy "by any means necessary".
Who was Malcolm X?
The activist organization that spearheaded the civil rights movement, not least in the courts, of which also Rosa Parks was an active member
What is the NAACP (the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
A prominent method of murdering black people by the Ku Klux Klan, using just a rope and a tree
What is lynching?
The genre of religious choir music that is sung by a group of black men and women who are machine-gunned by Childish Gambino, commemorating a recent mass murder in a black church by a white male teenager
What is gospel music?
Which animals does FD compare the slaves to when talking about how little they know of their ages and birthdays
What are horses?
The 1954 decision by the US Supreme Court that effectively overturned the 'separate but equal' decision from 1896
What is 'Brown v. The Board of Education'
The only two black people with agency in the movie, the rest of the black population portrayed as passive
Who are the angelic, well-spoken preaching boy and the specialist interrogator flewn in from the north?
A series of social experiments about black children's self-perception that documented the scars of segregation and discrimination in the 1930s and 40s.
What were the Clark Doll Experiments?
Only direct reference to the contemporary and ongoing civil rights movement in Bob Dylan's song "The Times They Are A-changin'"
What is the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" event at the University of Alabama in 1963?
Which high-ranking group of people does FD compare the slaves to when they had the luck of being appointed to run errands at the Great House Farm, thus escaping the field work for a day
Who are the elected representatives (politicians) in the American Congress in Washington?
The murdered black boy that Rosa Parks said she thought of when she refused to give up her bus seat
Who was Emmett Till?
The carnivorous white flower that looks pretty but smells bad, probably symbolising white supremacist society of the South
What is a Trumpet Pitcher?
Clandestine network of escape routes and safe houses, assisted by abolitionist volunteers to help former slaves flee from the south to the north
What is the Underground Railroad?