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This happened in two waves in the 20th century as African-Americans sought work in factories in the North while simultaneously fleeing racial violence in the South.
What is the Great Migration?
Leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, this young pastor was educated at Morehouse University and helped organize the Montgomery Bus boycott and other famous Civil Rights Actions.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This loose network of homes, churches, and hideouts helped thousands of people escape from slavery in the American South.
What is the Underground Railroad?
In this type of non-violent protest, protestors to a public space, insist on being served/seen and refuses to leave until law enforcement removes them
What is a sit-in?
This amendment ended legalized slavery in the United States, except in cases of convicted criminals.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This court case made school segregation illegal in the United States.
What is Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Who is Ida B. Wells?
Often grown on plantations and farmed by enslaved people. Examples include tobacco, cotton, and sugar.
What are cash crops?
The United Farmworkers specifically asked that Americans boycott this product to support the striking farmworkers (Huelga!)
What is grapes?
Even after the ratification of the 15th Amendment, these three laws and policies often kept Black people from voting in the South.
What are Grandfather Clauses, Poll Taxes, and Literacy Tests?
This arts movement in New York City furthered the career of many Black authors, musicians, and artists as they created Black art for Black Audiences.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
An escaped slave, she made multiple trips to the South to secure freedom for friends and family on the Underground Railroad. She also served as a Union spy in the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This word literally means "property," and describes slavery as it was practiced in the United States.
What is chattel?
In 1839, the enslaved on this ship overthrew their captors and took control of the ship. They sailed the ship into New London (CT!) Harbor, and were eventually allowed to return to West Africa.
What is La Amistad?
These are the three parts of the 14th amendment that are often used by citizens and residents of the United States to advocate for their civil rights.
Birthright Citizenship, Due Process, and Equal Protection of the Law.
This group, operating in cities throughout the United States, trained in self-defense and marksmanship and also created free breakfast programs and healthcare programs for children in low-income communities.
Who are the Black Panthers?
Author of "The Souls of Black Folk" and creator of the term Double Consciousness. He's also credited as one of the founders of the NAACP.
Who was WEB Dubois?
The section of the triangular trade where enslaved people were taken from West Africa and sent to the Caribbean Islands and the Americas.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
The Jones-Shaforth Act of 1917 changed this status for Puerto Ricans.
What is citizenship?
Name two of the three ways that African-American homebuyers were blocked from buying houses in suburban areas.
Redlining, racial (restrictive) covenants, loan denial, GI Bill restrictions
One of the leaders of the United Farmworkers Movement, he led strikes, met with political leaders, and worked to unionize farmworkers.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
Although they were really deportations (sometimes of American Citizens), the US Government said they created this program in the 1930s to ensure "American jobs for American Workers"
What is "Mexican Repatriation?"
Two men, one Black, one white, who led violent rebellions of enslaved people in the American South before the Civil War.
Who are Nat Turner and John Brown?
This 1896 Supreme Court Case established that segregation was legal as long as the facilities provided were "equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?