Individuals
The President during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The district that was referred to as "Black Wall Street"
Where is Greenwood, Tulsa, OK?
Measures to restrict voting for Black Americans
What are literacy tests, polling taxes, and grandfather clauses?
Amendments passed during Reconstruction
What are the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments?
This Presidential decree paved the way for the 13th Amendment
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
He was the President during Reconstruction after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Who is Andrew Johnson?
An intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Established separate is not equal
What is Brown v. Board of Education
A system in which freed people rented land and paid interest on crops dictated by the landlord.
This event started the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
Who demanded full equality for Black Americans and an end to Jim Crow during Reconstruction
Who is WEB DuBois?
Created in Oakland to combat police violence and create community programs.
What is the Black Panther Party?
Ended discriminatory practices in housing.
What is the Fair Housing Act of 1968
Rules that detailed what freed Black Americans could do and could not do.
What are Black Codes?
Segregation by fact and personal discrimination, not law
What is de facto segregation?
This individual was previously enslaved and she bought a newspaper, Free Paper, that condemned the treatment of Black Americans
Who is Ida B. Wells?
Became the first African American flying squadron to see combat.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
The name of the people who rode into the South challenging the lack of enforcement of desegregation
Who are the Freedom Riders?
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The exception of the 13th amendment
Who are convicted criminals?
Wrote about his experience crossing the middle passage of the Transatlantic slave trade
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
The first national hero of World War II and became the first African American to be awarded the Navy Cross.
Who is Doris "Dorie" Miller?
The march from _____ to Montgomery that paved the way for the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Where is Selma?
A negative term given to a Northerner who came to make their fortunes from the South's misfortune.
Who are "Carpetbaggers"?
This film boosted membership for the KKK in 1915.
What is Birth of a Nation.