Must Know Vocab
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Legalities
100
Something or someone that is in a lower position
What is inferior?
100
Famous poet of the 1920's active in the Harlem Renaissance
Who is Langston Hughes?
100
Was the first African American to play Major League Baseball
Who is Jackie Robinson?
100
Church in Birmingham, Alabama that was bombed and 4 young girls died
What is the 16th Street Baptist Church?
100
Ended slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
200
Someone against slavery
What is an abolitionist?
200
Singer and trumpet player
Who is Louis Armstrong?
200
Led people to safety in the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
1963 political rally where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech
What is the March on Washington?
200
"separate by equal" is legal
What is Plessy vs. Fergusen?
300
A refusal to use a companies services or product
What is a boycott?
300
Scientist at the Tuskegee Institute known for agriculture, especially peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver?
300
Said that African Americans should be free "by all means necessary"
Who is Malcom X?
300
9 boys were unfairly accused of rape and did not have a fair trial
What is the Scottsboro Boys Trial?
300
All people have the rights of citizens
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
A public, violent disorder
What is a riot?
400
First African American Secretary of State
Who is Collin Powell?
400
Documented the practice of lynching
Who is Ida B. Wells?
400
States made laws that allowed discrimmination of minorities
What are Jim Crow Laws?
400
"Separate by equal" is illegal
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
500
To treat someone differently based on the group they are a part of
What is discrimmination?
500
Abolitionist who fought for the end of slavery in the 1800s
Who is Frederick Douglass?
500
Founded the Tuskegee Institute
Who is Booker T. Washington?
500
9 African American students attended an all-white high school, President Eisenhower had to step in to protect them
What is the Little Rock 9?
500
African American Men have the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
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